2007-03-21 12:07:42 · 6 answers · asked by ampmke 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
He is taught that they're not as good as white people, actually more like animals, and that it's perfectly okay to own them and treat them any way one sees fit - in the society of the book, slavery is the norm and considered good and right.
Huck doesn't agree with this in his heart, which is why he doesn't betray Jim, but it's hard for him not to, because helping him goes against everything he's been taught to believe.
2007-03-21 12:14:57 · answer #1 · answered by Ms. S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well for starters Huck Finn isn't some plantation owner..sitting back drinking mint julips and owning slaves.
He is a poor white boy..with a drunk abusive father and no mother in his life.
Society taught him that even his lovely status is better than be inga slave or black at those times..
the book does a great job at portraying the various white characters as wicked/cheats/drunks/conmen...
the character of Jim..the runaway slave is a descent man who longs for freedom.
Yet it takes Huck a long time to get over his predjuices...
almost to the point that he turns poor Jim into the slave catcher..
True blue Huck finn indeed..
2007-03-21 12:43:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He had been taught that a slave is property. For a slave to run away is theft. To help a slave to run away is to help him steal.
Huck "knew" that it was a bad thing to help Jim run away, considering that Jim's "owner" had never done Huck any harm, and he could go to hell for doing things like that.
So he tried to harden himself against Jim and convince himself to turn Jim in to the authorities, but he just kept thinking of how good Jim was. He finally decided he was willing to go to hell rather than report Jim to the authorities.
2007-03-21 12:36:46 · answer #3 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have read this book and i do not believe that the black race was mentioned very much because in that time there was alot of contravercy over them. huck was poor and did not really care about race much anyway i would guess!
2007-03-21 12:39:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know because I never read the book but I will be sure to add that to my book list to read!
~Thanks!
2007-03-21 12:17:47 · answer #5 · answered by *~*Purr-fectNYCGrl*~* 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uh hi. i havnt read this book but i have it. i just wanted to ask u if it was a good book. could ya tell me? thanx a million!!!
2007-03-21 12:28:00 · answer #6 · answered by rachel13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋