Episode-JM

"It warn't the grounding -- that didn't keep us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder-head." "Good gracious! anybody hurt?" "No'm. Killed a nigger." "Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt. Two years ago last Christmas your uncle Silas was coming up from Newrleans on the old //Lally Rook,// and she blowed out a cylinder-head and crippled a man. And I think he died afterwards. He was a Baptist. Your uncle Silas knowed a family in Baton Rouge that knowed his people very well. Yes, I remember now, he //did// die. Mortification set in, and they had to amputate him. But it didn't save him. Yes, it was mortification -- that was it. He turned blue all over, and died in the hope of a glorious resurrection. They say he was a sight to look at. Your uncle's been up to the town every day to fetch you. And he's gone again, not more'n an hour ago; he'll be back any minute now. You must a met him on the road, didn't you? -- oldish man, with a -- "

This passage from the story gives an interesting perspective on the minds of so called good Christians. When Huck tells Sally Phelps what happened she responds like an average person and asks if any one got hurt. Huck then tells her that no one got hurt but a nigger died. When she gets this news she is relieved. She acts like no one was hurt in the accident. Then she brings up a similar event in which a white man died and is very remorseful. This is a disturbing look into the mind of a prejudiced person. While she claims to follow the words of the bible she denies the man who died the right to even be considered human. This is completely hypocritical for someone who is allegedly a religious person because Christians are supposed to love everyone around them. The fact that she would feel no remorse and in fact feel relief that only a black man died is a terrible thing and completely against everything in the bible.

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