Please help!

i just got done reading it. or at least have 3 chapters to go. really you could go either way. Huck travels down the mississipi river with an escaped slave named Jim. he's tom sawyer's aunt's slave. but the whole reason they say its racist is because jim is portrayed as an ignorant stubborn person who can barely speak. some say thats why its a racist book. the other side is that huck thinks jim is just a n****r, nothing else. but learns throughout the book that jim is a good man. there are points in the book where huck could have given up jim as an escaped slave but he doesn't because he has become friends with jim. at one point he says if i go to hell if i help jim, then i'll go to hell. or something like that. but huck starts to see jim as a friend and almost a father figure. because hucks dad is a drunk and beats him. so thats how you could say jim is portrayed as a good man. hopefully that helps a little. i had nothing to do. also chech www.sparknotes.com they'll probably have something good on it

cliffnotes.com is god, look up commentaries on each chapter or go to the themes section and look up racism

Awesome I aced this book last year, and I got a 5 on the AP test so you can trust me! Don't use Sparknotes or cliffnotes because everyone else will have the same paper as you and teachers know that. Go off of this:

I think you would have a much stronger argument if you said the book is not rascist. Twain writes Huck Finn as a satire on the rascist society of the time period in Mississippi. He purposefully creates Joe (or Jim? oh well not important) as a bumbling "nigger" to portray the way society looked at blacks at the time. However, there are many examples that show Joe is the "bigger man" despite his dealings with racial prejudice. If you write your paper with examples of Twain's satirizing 19th century society, you will have plenty to work with.

i sparknoted the whole thing but i watched some movie on schools banning it and i say it wasn't racistic for people back than becasue that was the norm of how to talk and treat slaves but now with our politically correctness we have taken a situation the acts of the past were wrong becasue they were offensive.