Mark Twain a Racist? Absolutely not!

In commemoration of the 135th anniversary of this year, Mark Twain's "The Adventure of The Huckleberry Finn" is a classic of American literature and is being read by millions of people every year. However, many people argue that this book promotes and supports the atrocious act of racial discrimination. In their attack on classics, many reviewers used evidence such as the repetition of the use of n word 211 (Powers, 2010) and the low level description of novel African Americans. However, many supporters of this novel praised it for so controversial.

Mark Twain, racist? Mark Twain is a man far beyond his age. Mark Twain grew up in Twain's Mandelbrot. In Missouri and Louisiana, the number of whites is less than 500,000 (Chang, Twain, p. 21). This means that there are many black people. Twain grew without telegraphy, but there was no railroad and there was no result line (Twain, www.marktwain.com). I can hardly find a map. So Twain will not do it

Mark Twain 's novel "Huckleberry Fin" discussed his internal racist content. Many people are opposed to using derogatory phrases such as "niger" in Mark Twain's book. "Any color person is actually reading Huckleberry Fin ... I can not condemn it as a racist" (Kaplan 20). Huckleberry Fin presents the cultures and attributes of the times and uses the racist principles necessary to describe Twain's equality message.

As the writer did in the last chapter of the novel, Mark Twain himself is not a racist himself, but racism in society in particular is common in southern states. Twain likes black culture. According to reports, during his trip to Europe, he frequently impressed his master by singing African-American spiritual songs. In his later years, he was very unusual in sponsoring the education of black students by paying the tuition fees of the Aale Law School. Reading Hackfen, the reader can feel the sympathy of the author against the black people. This was revealed by Hack 's father' s depiction. That father was very racist and complained about the rights of the black people. Despite his own being one of the most important roles in American literature, he complained that the government allowed the black professor's vote. By creating such an extreme social contrast, Twain clearly criticized white racism.