Toni Morrison

          One of the things that Toni Morrison mentioned in her article is that she specifically focused on individuality within a society, especially in Huck's. What she pointed out is how society influences people's viewpoints, but in the society of Huckleberry Finn, they seem to set people like Huck. A child like Huck who has been wronged by society will result in him not embracing those ways. And we can see in Huckleberry Finn that Huck hates the society because it is so corrupt and everyone has to believe in only one viewpoint. However, I believe that total conformity to society is negative for Huck and for anyone else. Each individual needs to have their own thought and opinion. For people to have freedom of their own, they must have their own perspective. A child like Huck would feel uneasy and troubled when he sees a society like that without any actual parent that teaches him about life. He goes on his own journey with moral conflicts within himself and having distrust in society. What Toni Morrison stated, “His deepest, uncomic feelings about his status as an outside, someone “dead” to society, are murmuring interludes of despair, soleness , isolation and unlove," is how Huck is isolated and not loved by society and so he ends at on a raft traveling along a river. The river seems to me that it’s an unclear thought about both sides for Huck to actually set foot on and make it his home. The river symbolizes a train of thought for Huck while he searches for an answer to his internal chaos.

          As it is true that Twain focuses deeply in slavery in his novel, the N-word was used to emphasize the whole idea of it, not to make a joke out of it. As said before, it is original for people to conclude that the novel may have some offending points, but how does that make the novel bad? Do they think Twain would write such a thing and ruin his reputation or career as a writer? Behind this, Twain also proofs a point that by criticizing his novel, it shows that the criticisms are all original and people are entitled to have different interpretations. Toni Morrison also had trouble reading Twain's novel because all the ideas that he has brought up. However, she rests the case by praising his message when she read his novel again. By my perspective, the novel has main points that reveal historical context and that people from the future should keep in mind history was made. Thus, confirming whether the novel is good or bad would not change anything because the novel has already been written and published and is read by people throughout the world.