Southern Negativity
“A clear understanding of negative emitons dismisses them” - Vernon Harold. In the book, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, it shows how some places can be different from others. Twains Novel Huck finn displays the South negatively though discrimination, loss of innocence and religion.

The book Huck Finn by Mark twain sows an an exceptional amount of discrimination, while also displaying other negitive subjects.
Discrimination in the book leads to different times thoughout the book such as the moment when Jim was talking about his freedom and children. Sadly the southern states did not agree with the freedom of slaves or African amaricans. “Then jum started talking about how he would buy his wife and then buy his children!” (Twain 66). This part within the book shows how Twain understands how different skin color depicted here you and your family would be treated and taught in the south. While also some types of skin had there own social class. While Huck finn was in the middle of the family feud, Huck had to make an escape but first he had to alert his friend Jim, but the other “slaves” had to tell Jim for huck first.”I wasn’t gonn shove off till jack comes and tells me he certen you’s ded”(twain 88).This plays a very important role in the souths part for discrimination becausese the other slaves were all excluded from the current events occurring in the household while they were ignored from society even while others were dieing proving the souths neglect and discrimination. When the king and the duke were selling everything from the small property they swindled from the dead man‘s house they sold the slaves first as if they were property and not just people, they treated them like absalute garbage with no rights.”They hadn’t ever dreamed of seeing the family sold or separated from the town” (twain 138). Mark Twain attempted to show the relentlessness the discrimination in the south was by the attempts to sell familys of slaves as if they were nothing but property. Discrimination is an issue in the story line of huck finn but a loss of innocence is another topic where twain depicts the south negatively in this book.

A loss of innocence can be anything that makes someone have to grow up faster, in this case the south’s negativity caused Huck to grow up faster. At the start of the book Hucks father came to the town, so huck had to conjure up the courage to hide his money from pap before he swindled it from his own son for alcohol. ”I want you to take it the six thousand and all!” (twain 12). Twain wants to show how Huck had to somehow get rid of his own money to prevent pap from stealing it, this demonstrates how huck had to make an adults decision and grow up faster then the average thirteen year old boy. In one point of the book Pap became drunk to the point of where he was having hallucinations, which causes pap to try to kill huck which causes the boys mentality to become ruined for life. “I begged and told him I was only huck but he just laughed such a screeching laugh” (twain 22). Hucks innocence was lost due to the fact that pap was a drunken crazy delusional old man. Causing huck to grow up faster so he could fend for himself. Huck and Jim find a floating house on the river which contains a dead man, Jims instincts cause him to cover the man up and even after he covers the man up huck can still see the dead man which accounts for another loss of innocence. “ come in but don’t look at his face its too gasly!” (twain 38). Even after successfully covering the dead mans face up jim could not change the fact that hucks innocence was lost due to the young boy having to see a dead corpse at such an early age, twain tries to explain this with detailed scenery and it relates to the south by showing how careless they were in there efferts to preserve the dead. Loss of innocence is not as bad as the horrible moral and religious rights the south had.

Mark Twains prospective on the south can be shown in the religon themes in this book. Huck was told about moses in the start of the book only to have a negitive reply to it. “I don’t care ‘bout him cuz I don’t take no stalk in dead people” (twain 2). This shows how the south had negative religious effects on huck due to not being and rased right. It also depicts how most of the south were rebels in there society. While the south is not very religious but also negagive they indeed have there religious limits and what they will and will not chance. “ I see it wasn’t nothing but a dictionary” (twain 231). This lets us know how the people and huck of the southern states would not pledge or plea a lie to a bible because even they fear it. In the south they did have religious values and belifs but it took a lot to get them out of the southern people. “ the plain hand of provenance letting me know my wickedness was being watched up there in heaven” (twain 160). This proves a point that at the breaking point in the south, a sudden realization was occurring due to guilt or some other structures and or crimes. Due to the Souths religon it proves that twain was writing negatively to the southern people and also creating a negative environment for them.

Twain had placed negative aspects on the south though discrimination, loss of innocence and religion. Discrimination in the south could be easy on other but twain emphasized it. Loss of innocence was particularly harsh upon huck and the south. While religion proved how heartless twain made the south seem.The point across is to determine if twain placed negative prospective upon the south in his novel. It strikes utter importance because of the racism and discrimination topics being extremely true in todays modern society.

Works Cited

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York Dover Publications, 1894.