Sunday, April 28, 2013
last huck finn post woo
hey guys so this is my last huck finn blog yay sorry its so late. i suck. but whatever. so we start to see a huge racial issue when it comes to social responsibility. like when everyone found jim they were all like "omg we need to kill him because he's a runaway slave and he broke the law and we all thought he killed huck even though he's obviously alive". no one ever stops to think like "hey wait, he was with huck the whole time and did not even try to kill the kid. maybe jim isn't so bad after all????" but soon thereafter, once everyone actually starts to make sense of things, they're all like, "Hey wait, even miss watson said jim was a good guy. maybe we shouldn't be calling him all these racial slurs. i mean he did manage to keep himself and a 12-year-old kid safe from the dangers of the world including huck's drunk father. woo he's a hero!!!!!" the people of the town are similar to huck for once. huck has always had this internal conflict of how he should treat jim. and even though he has doubts on whether or not to turn the runaway slave in, he realizes how good of a person jim is and doesn't doom him to a terrible fortune. the town is similar because they were quick to jump to conclusions about the type of person jim is, but all they needed was to be enlightened by huck and they saw that jim was a real human being.
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lmao I liked your take on the internal struggle that went on within Huck and then within the rest of the folks around him in the hospital. I didn't really consider how Huck's thought process could end up being a universal thought process that people went through when it dawned on them that black people really aren't bad or less than white people. It's almost like everyone took a step back and simultaneously realized that killing Jim or even treating him badly just isn't an okay thing to do and isn't justifiable whatsoever. ~the first steps towards equality brought to you by huck finn ~good job gertie
I talked about the same person in ny blog, Jim and society. Although Jim wasn't going anything bad to tom or Jim, what the people there first thought was the opposite. They didn't even think of the possibility of them being wrong and that Jim didn't do anything bad. When they first see Jim, everyone there blames him for what happened to tom even though he was the one who helped to save his life. They even want to kill Jim for having done that even though they don't even know the true, all of this is based on their assumption of what Jim dis to tom and Huck just because he was black. As you said, they didn't even concurred the probability of Jim not being the guilty one there, they just straight blame him for what happened. In this time period everyone's mind were closed to their beliefs, no one thought that something different could be possible.
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