Kyles+event+from+novel

=Racism=

In the novel, Huck Finn, Mark Twain makes fun of the racism and slavery in the south. One way that he makes fun of the racist attitudes is through Huck's father. At one point in the novel Huck's father complains about an educated black man that is free in his town. He feels that he should, by law, be allowed to take this black man and sell him into slavery. He even says "They call that a govment that can't sell a free nigger till he's been in the State six months. Here's a govment that calls itself a govment, and lets on to be a govment, and thinks it is a govment, and yet's got to set stock-still for six whole months before it can take a hold of a prowling, thieving, infernal, white-shirted free nigger, and-". He is saying that as a white man it is his God given right to sell this free black man into slavery.

Twain is satirizing the south because their society is based around rich plantation owner's, lesser farmers, and poor whites. Then below the poor whites there is an even lower class that would be the African-American community. The southern population believed that these African-Americans were put on this earth for one reason and only one reason, and that is to be their slaves. African-Americans were treated lower than dirt, in the south it was felt that you should be able to just take a free black man and sell him into slavery, some felt that you could even kill these people without cause.