Generally speaking, Mark Twain’s view on race relations can be reviewed in two aspects. First, the work of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the extension and sequel of Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the former one has a more serious atmosphere, which is mainly focusing on the description of slavery in 1850s catering to the psychological thinking of young people at that time. The theme of the novel reveals ideas to be against the oppression of racial discrimination and suppression. Specifically speaking, it is mainly embodied in support and sympathy on American Africans and description of Jim’s fight against the fact.

Therefore, the first part is about the sympathy on American Africans. Huckleberry is the centre figure of the novel, who is a rebellious figure fighting with the pursuit of freedom and independence. Huckleberry is a child who pursues freedom with kindhearted nature and smart integrity. When getting along with Jim, he also demonstrated many of his excellent traits so as to help to maintain a sincere and equal friendship between a white child and a black slave, which was rarely seen at that time. However, the formulation of this kind of personality is not an easy process. In order to have a vivid portray of figure of Huckleberry, Twain used a large quantity of psychological description according to the realism principles including the vivid and detailed psychological activities of racial discrimination and the changes of these ideas.

Before meeting with Jim, Huckleberry is not satisfied with the current situation and ran out for freedom. However, when he flee with Jim and his behavior violated the moral principles and laws of America at his age. Huckleberry was confronted with the dilemma all the time.

Although the so-called ‘civilized society’ tells him to turn Jim out, he still choose to help Jim to run away. Indeed, first he struggled a lot given his growth process with severe racial discrimination and segregation, his idea was very conflicted at the very beginning. Therefore, he didn’t treat Jim as the partner and also made fun of him; however, in the process of getting along with Jim and overcoming difficulties together, they gradually became real friends.

From the above description, it can be seen that psychological analysis of Huckleberry and Jim reveals the Mark Twain’s views on race relations. As the central figure of the novel, Huck himself has deep desire for freedom and also has deep sympathy for the unfortunate suffering of black people and even help them to get away from those tragic sufferings. It displays that Huck finally gets rid of the traditional restrictions after long-term struggle in his mind. Regardless of the moral standards and laws at that time, he was bravely against the black slavery and fighting for freedom and justice. This process shows the racial standpoint of Mark Twain, which is despite of various ideas, the Whites will finally realize that abolishing slavery is very righteous and necessary and the black people will finally achieve their own freedom and liberation.

The other part of Mark Twain’s views on race relations are embodied on descriptions on Jim. Mark Twain not only continues the democratic spirit in his writing and also extends this kind of ideas to a wider range. Although the slavery system has been abolished at hat time, the sufferings and tragic situation were still very prevailing at that time. Therefore, Twain’s description not only harshly revealed the racial oppression and also clarified his own view on races.

To sum up, this work serves as a mirror to reflect on the actual situation of his age in the American society. Mark Twain is also a fighter as the representative of liberal to unveil the truth and sufferings of black people. In this process, it depicts the sin and hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie class and their serious racial discrimination. The so-called democracy and freedom was also incisively and vividly shown in he novel. Through the story of Huckleberry and Jim, Mark Twain revealed and denied the American social civilizations.

He expressed the idea that in spite of any race and skin colors, everyone should be equal in the society, which also deeply expressed his opposite ideas on racial discrimination. This was also one of the most important works in Mark Twain’s career as a writer. In the novel, the conflicting process of Huckleberry was also the changing process of the author himself on the policies and practical situation of the black people. Finally, Twain became a liberal to finalize his views on racial discrimination. He was absolutely certain that the slavery system would disappear and the justice would finally conquer the evil side so as to ensure the equal rights of all people regardless of any race or skin color.