Qing Rou Deng. Posting 5. Adventures of Huckleberry Fin

Throughout the story it is very evident that Huck’s mind is changing. Huck was raised with the ideals that black people are worthless but throughout the story Huck become a less of a believer in slavery. In the first parts of The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin Huck’s thoughts on slavery can be shown with in this quote “I see it warn’t no use wasting words—you can’t learn a nigger to argue. So I quite. (118).” Toward the end of the book Huck is not completely against slavery because Huck decided to write the note about Jim running away to Miss Watson and afterwards he thought “I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. (279)” However he after he wrote the note he eventually decide to destroy it and chose to rescue Jim. “I’d see him [Jim] standing my watch on top of his’n stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how good he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such like times; and would always call me honey, and pet me, and doe everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had smallpox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he’s got now; and then I happen to look around and see that paper. (279).” Is really wonderful to see how kindness can change a person so dramatically. In this story Jim’s caring and kindness change Huck’s view on slavery. Using kindness to change others can be seen in many stories. My favorite example was in a movie I saw; the title was The Color of Friendship. The story took place in 1977 in Washington D.C. and South Africa. This story is about a rich African America family hosting a white exchange student from South Africa who was raised with racist ideas. But her view is completely changed in her journey to America. In the end the student from South Africa became best friends with the girl from the host family. This movie is really inspiring and I learned from both of these examples that if I show kindness to someone who is less fortunate or they might be prejudice toward the wrong thing (but that is an opinion) then I can change their life.