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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
The Black and White Yin Yang
In society when we think of black and white we think of good and evil. Typically white is the symbol of good and black is the symbol of evil.In the book Huckleberry Finn those symbols of black and white are sort of twisted around and thrown back at us in a way that we haven't seen before. I'm talking racism and it is deep in the book Huckleberry Finn with Finn's dad being racist and saying that the negro is a leech on society even though, if you look at pap, he is a leech or more of a leech. Racism is everywhere in the book and it plagues the southern states, blacks are treated as the evil of society and that we must chain them up and make them our slaves for being so different but if you step back and look, aren't the white men in the book being the evil ones by enslaving the other race just because of skin color? Aren't they the ones associated with evil instead of the black men?
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This is so accurate! It's unbelievable to think that people would judge someone by their color! The slaves took the high road and showed the best character! White people should have been the ones being punished! They were the ones murdering, injuring, deteriorating, and slandering the slaves for only trying to obey. I hate the thought that people could store so much evil in themselves.
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