mbarrassing situation...he could neither read nor write, and his speech was the basest dialect of the negro quarter...his manners, attitudes, gestures were vulgar and uncouth. The poor fellow could not endure the terrors of the white man's parlor, and felt at home and at peace nowhere but in the kitchen. (pg.114) He prefers the company of the slaves with whom he has identified with for over the years, but now their company is prohibited. The false heir, on the other hand, had made a full confession of his acts and was sent to jail for life. Thus, it is clear that an individual's freedom is impelled by human relations with other people. Being legally freed does not save Jim from humiliation, and does not allow Chambers to gain back his selfhood. Those who contribute to the formation of a racist living society, need to first give up their deeply rooted beliefs. Since that rarely happened, Blacks were still forced to see themselves as inferiors after being released from slavery. In Hucks's story however, Twain gives us hope, by implying that if a person is allowed to rely on his/her own inner standards of judgment, without being influenced by society, human beings are capable of overcoming racial barriers and can then coexist in a harmonious manner. These two superb novels have the power to make its readers reevaluate their values, and beliefs regarding slavery-a word, which still haunts this world, and is one of America's unfinished social issues. ...
