In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, Twain uses racism, slavery, and freedom throughout his book. In the novel, Huck and a slave by the name of Jim attempt to escape from his “teacher” Miss Watson, and Jim attempting to escape from slavery. The two escape successfully and have plans to build a raft and journey down the Mississippi river to freedom. Before their river journey, Jim says to Huck, "I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself." This quote by Jim shows how much freedom really means to people in America and also shows how big of a part of bein

Racism is a big part of being an American. If you’re an American, you probably have encountered some form of racism, from either the color of your skin, your background, nationality, etc. The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a lesson, and it teaches its reader not only about freedom and religion, but mostly about race and racism. As you probably know, Huck Finn is one of the most controversial books in American literatures history, and many people have different views on the book, like most of all, whether it should be banned from classrooms or not. If people are arguing whether or not it should be banned from classrooms, you can obviously tell that it involves a large amount of race and racism. It involves racism towards blacks mostly, and Twain often uses the words “slave” and “nigger” throughout the book. In my opinion, the book is not racist at all. Twain is simply telling things how they were, back when slavery still existed in our country. But I feel that since Twain wrote the novel back in the time of slavery, or near the time of slavery, that it is surely not racist. I also think that this novel really explains sort of what it means to be an American by somewhat explaining slavery. Slavery is a part of American history and being an American means dealing with slavery, because it’s obvious that slavery is still present to this day.

Also included in Huck Finn, Twain uses the mockery of religion. It seemed like Twain intended to attack organized religion all the time using the “sarcastic” character of Huck Finn, which allowed him to mock religion perfectly. The attack on religion can already be seen in the first chapter, when Huck implies that hell sounds like a lot more fun than heaven. Hucks mockery of religion continues throughout the novel, with one scene occurring when the King convinces a religious community to give him money so he can "convert" his pirate friends, just another one of the King and Dukes “cons” of people to receive something to benefit themselves. But Twain does show how he mocks religion in his novel.

Another issue that can be used in describing what it means to be an American is the subject of love and violence. Love and violence is clearly shown in the play, “A Streetcar Named Desire”, especially with the characters Stanley and Blanche. The story goes that Stanley, and tuff polish guy, and Stella, an innocent woman, are married and hopelessly in love and enjoying their lives together living in New Orleans. Then Stella’s sister Blanche comes for a visit and she is pretty much a mess. Blanche and Stanley do not get along at all, and as the play goes on, there hate towards each other grows. One night, Stanley gets really drunk with his friends, and hits Stella (a form of physical violence). Afterwards the next morning, Stanley apologizes to Stella because he does love her very much. Towards the end of the play, Stella is in the hospital having a baby and Blanche is at home packing her belongings into her trunk when Stanley arrives. Blanche goes on about how her suppos

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