Comparing the Struggle for Freedom in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn an

Struggle for independence in Adventures of huckabackleberry Finn and Native SonThroughout history, great authors have served as sentinels for racism and prejudice in American society. The Mark Twain novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a graphic story of 1840s America that depicts the plight of an uneducated color break ones back named Jim moved many to empathize with African-Americans. Compassion against the evils of slavery soon opening across the country. A war-torn America abolished slavery in 1865. However, Richard Wrights 1940 novel, Native Son, a compelling story of the spiritedness and death of some other caustic man, large Thomas, makes a convincing argument that slavery in America was still very much alive during that period. Civil rights polity and enforcement would not come until years later. A generation apart, Jim and Bigger be the evolution of the black man struggling to be free in American society. On Twains Mississippi of the 1840s, slaves are regarded more(prenominal) as property than human there is no exemption for the black man. Jim is trapped in a society that trumpets racial crime for example, Hucks father said, they told me there was a statewhere theyd let the nigger chooseI says Ill never vote again (Twain 35). Early in their travels, Jim and Huck mirror the chasm in black and white relations that plagues America at the time. Blinded by prejudice, Huck hitms incapable of recognizing that, much like himself, Jim is scared and rails from a life of few choices, towards a dream of independence. Instead, he can only see what society allows him tothe blackness of Jims skin. He is reluctant to be seen with Jim because he knows People would call him a low-down Abolitionist and despise him for property mum (50). Even afte... ...e and what kind of work he can do (Wright 394). Biggers society collectively denies him freedom to better his life with restrictions lay upon Negro education, authorities that make it plain in their e very cloak that they mean to keep Bigger Thomas and his kind within relentless limits, and real estate operators who have agreed among themselves to keep Negroes within ghetto-areas of cities (394). contrary Jim, Bigger cant escape his slavery by running to the free north. His slavery is all-encompassing. Jim only sees freedom at face value, so his can be achieved. He can only hope for freedom in its simplest form release from the physical shackles of slavery. Biggers freedom begins where Jims leaves off. Works Cited Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York harper & Row, 1885. Wright, Richard. Native Son. New York Harper & Brothers, 1940.