Matt’S Huck Finn Analysis
You didn’t want to come. The average man don’t like trouble and danger. You don’t like trouble and danger. But if only half a man-like you Buck Harkness, there shouts ‘Lynch him! Lynch him!’ you’re afraid to back down - afraid you’ll be found out to be what you are - cowards!†In the novel the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain expresses his own views of society (using speeches, thoughts, and sayings such as this one). Huck Finn is the narrator so it enables Twain to use Huck’s thoughts and feelings as his own. Twain expresses his thoughts on a variety of subjects and his dislikes about them. Huck doesn’t seem to fit in Twain’s groups of society so he is the perfect character to use as the narrator. Twain expresses his negative views of different types of society like slavery, groups of people or mob mentality, and Huck himself, through the characters and their actions.
Twain chows just how white people felt towards black people or slaves back then. He uses Jim as a main source for this. Through Huck’s feelings towards Jim he can get his point across to the reader. Huck has mixed emotions about Jim and slavery. He knows Jim should be free and wants him to be, but because of the society he lives in he feels that it is wrong. Huck and Jim are good friends and companions throughout the book, but even Huck says, “He’s my nigger…†in one point in the story. The constant use of the word “nigger†also shows societies feeling towards black back then. Back then it was a common word used by everyone, now the word “nigger†is used as a put-down or racial slur and is prohibited. Twain uses these techniques to show us how society felt about blacks even though it was wrong.
Twain also expresses his views towards people when they get into a group or mob. This was Twain’s most expressed comment about society. Twain expresses in many different occasions just how gullible, stupid, following, and cowardly people in groups are....
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