The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain - 804 Words

Conor Fleming The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ignorance The Novel: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, makes a strong presence by its continued, if not redundant display of itself. Far too often in society people s lack of knowledge on a given subject causes their opinions and actions to rely strictly on stereotypes created by the masses and often makes the people not willing to change how they view a certain people or situation. This is usually called ignorance, and it plaques societies everywhere and Mark Twain knows that and actively criticizes that. This is curable but people have to become open-minded and leave their reliance on society s viewpoints behind them, which is unlikely to happen when people are†¦show more content†¦Society would sees a black person, and even further, slaves, as inferior and wouldnt even consider them as a person. They never thought of slaves as human beings, only as property. A slave, such as Jim, could be what society considers a great person, but since he is a slave who he actual ly was would become irrelevant.. They have the knowledge that Jim is a slave but make no judgments on his personality. This is shown when they assume that Jim killed Huck just because he ran away near the time of Huck s death. They don t consider the motives of such an action, but just look at the surface facts that he might do this because he is savage, missing, and possibly in the area at the time. Pap is also suspected, but not as much as Jim even though he has a motive, and could have easily committed such an evil deed in one of his drunken stupors Again, the main members of a society aren t the only ignorant party. Jim can be awfully ignorant, this can be shown when he is speaking. What s de use er makin up de camp fire to cook strawbries en sich truck? But you got a gun, hain t you? Den we kin git sumfn better den strawbries. (Twain 51). In another part of the novel the Twain illustrates the ignorance of society very well with the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepardsons. When Buck Grangerford was questioned about why he shot at Harvey Shepardson he first exclaims in