reader response 1: huck finn (1-6)

Racism


"oh, yes, this is a wonderful govment, wonderful. why, looky here. there was a free ______ there from ohio; a mutaltter, most as white as a white man. He had the most whitest shirt on you ever se, too, and the shiniest hat; and there aint a man in that town thats got as fine clothes as what he had; and he had a gold watch and chain, and a silver-headed cane- the awfulest old gray-headed nabob in the state. and what so you think? they said hes a p'fesser in a college. and could talk all kinds of languages, and knowed everything. and that aint the wust of it, they said he could vote, when he was at home. well, that let me out, thinks i. what is this country a- commin to? it was 'lection day, and i was just about to go and vote myself, if i warn' to drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a state in this country where they'd let that ______ vote, i drawed out. i says ill never vote again. thems the very words i said; they all heard me ; and the country may rot for all of me- ill never vote again as long as i live. and to see the cool way of that ______- why, he wouldnt five me the road if i hadn't shoved him out o' the way. says i to the people, why aint this ______ put up at auction and sold?" (pg. 20 chapter 6 2nd full paragraph) basicly what pap is saying is that _______ dont deserve the right to vote and that he is a supporter of slavery. also hes saying that they should be mindfull and get out of the way of white people.

I think that the way pap thinks is wrong because i belive that all people should be treated equaly nomatter what race gender or size. its a racist quote becausehe uses the "n word" freely and hes talking about them in a racist point of view.this relates to my life because even still there are people that are racist and sadly, im related to one of them.

this theme relates to mark twain and his life because he was alive during a very racist time. because of this he probably heard people around him all the time with a racist point of view. i dont think that mark twain himself was a racist and being that he wrote in satire he probably thought that this quote was wrong.