Essay #5...

Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was a great book to read but I have to say a very hard one to understand. Difficult in many aspects and points of view, in its huge controversy topics that it includes, you find a great variety of things to expect, in which you find entertainment discussing it. The book has several critical controversies, over the ending, race, gender and sexuality. My writing will focus on " gender and sexuality". The book has an enormous expectation from the reader to analyze the relationship between Huck and Jim. Leslie Fiedler, demands this focus in gender and sexuality by writing her essay "Como Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!"
The existence of being together Jim and Huck is not well accepted by Leslie and therefore argues that the case of Negro and the homosexual should be something much spread in its dimension of study and have these problems come to one solution at the same time.
The situation of the Negro and the homosexual in our society pose precisely opposite problems, or at least problems suggestion precisely opposite solutions: Our laws on homosexuality and the context of prejudice and feeling they objectify must apparently be changed to accord with stubborn social fact, whereas it is the social fact, our overt behavior toward the Negro, that must be modified to accord with our laws and the, at least official, morality they objectify. (520)
The way Fiedler states that these problems having them as opposite problems in the society are definitely not something that she agrees with. In my personal view I don't agree with this quote because these two problems are not the same ands then should not be treated as the one. The reason for me to think like this is simple to explain. I believe that the Negro is something more related to the respect and history problem. We can see that this is something that can be talked about and at the same time can be harmful to others. In the other hand the sexuality aspect is is not the same as the color of skin issue. This has to do gender and personal interests there are no history background in this and the way the society judges it has an impact in the person's life. This two problems cannot be seen as one because the roots are different they don't grow from one same thing. The consequences are also very distinct from each other.
If we apply it ti the book, I can clearly see that Jim was so close to Huck not because he was Negro but because of the time they had to be together and journey they both get in at the same time. The expression of care and friendship was strong between them because they only had each other. Let's not misunderstand this concept and want to see it different point.