After being kidnapped by his father "Pap" just to get Huck's wealth, this situation begins Huckleberry's hard spiral in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Being raised by a hateful ignorant racist Huckleberry Finn had no chance of living a normal loving life. Raised to hate, drink and live in ignorance, Huck's gruel was poison and Huck knew it. “Don't give me some of your lip,” he says. "You've put on a lot of frills since I've been away. I'll put you down before I finish with you. You're educated too, they say, you can read and write. You think you're better. And your father, right, why don't you can? I'll let you know. Who told you you could mess with such nonsense, hey? Who told you you could mess with such foolishness? His father didn't want the best for him but still, or for Huck to be worse, ignorant, never sober and as racist as himself. As a parent Pap should want better for his son but instead he delivers a harsh lash to Huck who wants to make something of himself To escape his father's clutches, Huck does he stages only to fake his own death and embark on an incredible adventure with his slave friend Jim. Jim is also on the run to it's time for his own freedom and the pair form a real team throughout the novel of the friendship that develops between Huck and Jim was literally black and white. Huckleberry is a young white boy raised by his father Pap to hate the opposite race. «...there was there a free negro from Ohio, a muleteer, almost as white as a white man. He also had the whitest shirt you've ever seen and the shiniest hat; and there is not a man in that city that has such beautiful clothes as he had; and he had a gold watch and chain, and a silver sheet of paper...... by California Press, 1960. an exploration of the novel's background of characters and ideas. "American Slavery: Literature." Historical literature on American slavery. Historical Children's Clothing, November 13, 2007. Web.Donaldson, Susan V. "Literature." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The South. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004. Creed Reference.Arnade, Chris. “America is still a deeply racist country.” Theguardian.com. Guardian News and Media, 12 January 2014. Web.Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Np: Holt, Rinehart, 1995. Print. Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were looking at God. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. Print.Hansberry, Lorraine. A raisin in the sun. New York: Vintage, 1994. Print.Stowe, Harriet Beecher, and Christopher G. Diller. Uncle Tom's Cabin, or life among the humble. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2009. Print.
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