Reader Response 1: Huck Finn (1 - 6)

The theme that i want to focus on is racism from the book Huck Finn. "Oh yes this is a wonderful government, wonderful. Why, looky here. There was a free "n" there,from ohio; a mulatter, most as white as a white man... had fine clothes and he had a gold watch and chain and a sliver headed cane-the alfulest old gray headed nabob in the State.... It was lection day, and i was just about to go vote myself, if i weren't to drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a State in the country where they'd let that "n" vote, i drawed out." The character that stated this quote was pap, who is Huck's father. It is located in ch. 6, p. 20, par 2. Basically pap was saying that he was mad that they let thje black man vote because he was a professer at a college. Then he tried to make up the excuse that he just left because, he was mad a bout the black man voting, but he was actually too drunk to vote.

What i think about this quote is that people don't like change. Since its been racial conflict that long people just won't accept that things are going to be changing for the better. Epecially pap, he needs to relize that things aren't ever going to be the same and they don't always go your way. I don't know maybe pap just jealous that he can't read and write and speak different languages. So he just blames it on his drinking problem. This really relates to the theme because he's being racist because someone of a differnt color is doing better than he is. This relates to my life a little, because at my old school people thought just cause I was african american that i wasn't smart but i proved them wrong.

What Mark Twian thinks about this qoute i he doesn't like it. He doesn't appove of people talking down about other people, if they're not up themselves. But when the quote was written by Mark, he didn't make it seem like the black man was like, just that poor and didn't have anything. This relates to Twain's life becaus he lived in those days and he seen these things that were happening around him.