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Mark Twain

The highly controversial book written by Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn proved to be a stepping stone for the racial segregation between whites and blacks that revealed a human side of the black man. Many critics argued that the novel portrayed a negative image on Jim and the constant use of the word “nigger” proved to be racist. Modern people have to understand that Twain’s depiction of Jim coincides with the culture of the time. At the completion of the novel, blacks were granted citizenship, the civil war was over, and yet one major problem still existed. The Jim Crow Laws proved to be another proverbial line separating whites and blacks. Within the context of this historical period, Twain penned Jim, stereotyping him in the “minstrel tradition,” with Negro slave dialect and a mind imbued with superstition (Ellison 422). Others have argued that although Twain painted a negative image of Jim at the beginning, the humanity and sensitivity of Jim......


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