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Racism In Huck Finn
Is or isn’t Huck Finn racist? Does reading Huck Finn help or harm race relations?
I believe Huck Finn isn’t racist but shows some race relations. Throughout the entire novel Huck repeatedly says the word,” nigger” but intentionally we cannot blame Huck, because that’s the way Huck was raised.
In chapter 8 on page 41, Huck and Jim seem to grow a bond, a bond that society wouldn’t accept, when Huck later finds out that Jim ran away and were wondering in the woods they seem to develop a close friendship. Huck could have told someone that Jim ran away but instead Huck accepted Jim and took part in an adventure along with Jim.
In chapter 15, Huck and Jim talked about how close they are to a free state. Later in the novel we realize that Jim talks

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