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Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is important to read because he uses Paradox and Euphemism to show his purpose that blacks and whites can work together to find their freedom. His purpose was that a child, Huck Finn helps Jim, a runaway slave , to escape along the Mississippi River to have freedom.
It is important to read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” because Huck a young child who doesn’t really know anything about slavery and what it’s like being a slave. Huck is struggling to believe what people had said about slaves and having to follow the rules. But once he’s on the Mississippi river, it opened his eyes and what he was facing in reality because he got to experience what it's like with Jim, a runaway slave. After being on the Mississippi river it had open Huck’s eyes and how his hometown is completely different from the Mississippi river. Huck is a smart boy but I think Twain pick a child for this role because children have less experience and don’t know much since they always have to obey and listen to adults. The Mississippi not only represents freedom for Jim but for Huck as well because he escaped from his abusive and drunk dad, but also society his hometown.
A reason why students should read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” because Huck says “ So, in two seconds, away we went, a sliding down the river, and it did seem so good to be free again and all by ourselves on the big river and nobody to bother us”(Twain 207). This is important because the meaning is that the Mississippi river represents life beyond the rules of society and Huck enjoys this more than his hometown. Another reason why Huck Finn is important to read is because Huck says “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a N-word but Ii done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn't done that one if I’d a knowed it would make him feel that way”(Twain 89). Huck is miserable having to apologize to a slave but he does it anyway because he felt guilty and knows that slaves are human beings too. Huck is still racist but he is just less than everyone else.
Twain wants us to do better about racism and is trying to make a point to us how everyone is human beings and have feelings too. They shouldn’t be treated differently because of the color of their skin. But if students read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” because it opens your eyes on how society before was like and how they faced reality but it also teaches people a young child who is separated from society at an early age with no learning or experince about slavery.
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