could he one day rebel against himself, start a social movement and win his freedom? If this were to ever happen, like the civil rights movement in 1955, then perhaps it was time to give the slave his well-deserved freedom? This simple but complex proposition would surely have angered the author's brothers. The author's notion of self and other bonhomie went ballistic to suggest that a black slave Jim could care for a young white boy Huck. Jim takes on the role of friend and father figure to Huck as he cooks for him in the wilderness of the jungles they set foot in. If the black man was portrayed in such a human and intellectual manner in the two novels, why not in real life? Another interesting point is that the author deliberately portrayed Huck as a white boy in a bad light? Huck is white but lives in abject poverty. He has no desire to learn and strive for the American dream that his countrymen insist on as a measure of success. In fact, we see the “savagery” of the character with the way he sleeps and eats at strange hours and with the unsanitary conditions in which he so proudly presents himself to the reader. Wasn't this wild way of life attributed and limited to black orientals? Wasn't white supposed to be structured and black just the opposite? The reader reading this description of Huckleberry Finn at the time both novels would have been published must have been stunned at how a white author could vilify a white character in this way. Was Huck Black? The demonization and demoralization of the East was a structured method to invoke fear in the minds and hearts of others. But skeptics say that the remote possibility that the other would not fear oneself was almost impossible. The disa...... middle of paper...... so the ambiguity was not at all veiled. If the white man claimed to be of a greater stature than the man of color, was this not an excessive vice which pitted the self against the other with respect to “savagery”? Whether he liked it or not, he knew himself to be, if not more, but equal to the savagery conceived by the other. He knew he was on par with the level of perceived vice that the white man saw as the wickedness of being dark in a white man's world. Ultimately, we come to the dry conclusion that self and other were consistent with respect to each other's actions and motivations. However, ultimately the criminal had to be characters like Jim the Slave, because that was the solution to all problems. The right mix of ingredients was to portray people of color as "dirty animals", to create an image that put the other in a negative light.