Race+Relations-P5

Race Relations in Huckleberry Finn:
By: Jennifer C. Andrew N. & Beatriz R.

Huck and Jim had traveled to the mouth of the Ohio River. They want to stop at the town called Cairo. Huck gets ashore and meets up with some men that request to check his raft for an escaped slave. He ensures the men that he out of all people would help out a slave. He then makes the men believe that on his raft lies but only family who are ill with smallpox. The slave hunters ironicly have a sudden change of heart and decide that it is not worth the risk. They leave and give Huck some money to help out with his family. Huck thinks he did a bad thing of not giving up Jim because he only a black slave. He later realizes that he would have felt the same way if he did give up Jim to the slave hunters.
 * Enocunter with slave hunters:** (Chapter 16)

The mistress of the house, Sally, is thrilled to see who she thinks is her nephew appear at her door. While in reality Huck is attempting to get Jim back. He then takes advantage of the situation and chooses to impersonate his friend Tom Sawyer. she then asks why the trip had taken as long as it had. Huck tells her there was a mishap on the steamboat. Sally feels great relief once she realizes that the wreck in which he was "supposedly" involved in had no great damage since only a "nigger" was killed, thus she apllies the condescending view towards those who she beleives to be of a lower race, one not worthy of many things.
 * Huck pretends to be Tom:** (Chapter 32-33)

One could assimilate the instance in which he says “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger,” Huck goes on to underestimate Jim, who in reality is one of the most open minded and learned characters of the entire novel. It is ironic how Huck has so many misconceptions of life in general yet Jim is the one that goes on to teach him many lessons and is able to make Huck see things in a different perspective.
 * Huck Underestimates Jim**: (Chapter ___)