In choosing the racial /cultural lens I had previous knowledge that slave were treated badly and unequally to the rest of the population. As I continued reading I had seen just how people like Tom Sawyer, who is the same age as Huck, had treated slaves like Jim as if they were dumb and easily persuaded. This can be seen when Jim had told his dreams of witches taking him around the world and Tom described Jim as crazy and he was someone that all the other slaves would want to see and hear about these dreams that he because they were just like Jim. Making him and the other slaves seem crazy in that they had believed all this crazy stuff and making fun of them. The use of the n word had been used many times by different people to make them seem less of a person.
When reading farther in the book I noticed that it seems as if Huck which seems to be struggling with his life himself having a drunken father that abuses him and going through hard times growing up to having to be removed from his father then being put into the custody of a widow which gives him everything from helping him learning to read and write giving him a better life but Huck it still unhappy of having to go to school everyday. He then tries to help Jim ,who is Miss Watson's slave, became free and creates a plan with Tom to free him. It can be seen that Huck in the way that he had grown up can be similar to Jim with feeling like society is against him or dislike him, when they had been separated from his father while Jim when slavery had started and was seen in society as being someone that was hated and treated badly. Though Huck and Jim are different racially they still face some similar difficulties in life and have grown close as friend in going through these thing together in trying to reach freedom in the own life.
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