One thing that Mark Twain does in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is flip the stereotype of that time. Many people in the south thought that black people were inferior to white people, no matter how evil a white person may be. Twain switches this up through Pap. Pap is about as white as a person could be, but he is also one of the most lowly people in the south. He is a drunk, abusive father who cannot take care of his own child. He forces his son to give him money so he can go buy more alcohol. He is uneducated and greatly despises black people. Pap heard of a black man who was a professor from Ohio. He was wealthy and well educated as well as multi-lingual. He was a perfect example of an upstanding citizen, and it did not matter that he was black.
The stereotypes being flipped around also shows what kind of a person Mark Twain was. He obviously didn't have any problem with black people, and was one of the few, I'm sure, that weren't so worried about any African Americans having more power than himself.
ReplyDeleteTwain does flip them. In reality it doesn't matter what color you are. People are rasied differently so therefore they treat everyone differently according to how they where raised.
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