Intolerance of Others
Hypocrisy
Themes in Huckleberry Finn
Greed
Rites of Passage
Slavery
Exploitation of Others
Gullibility
Fraud or Deception
Idea of White Supremacy
Superficial Religion
Intolerance of Others
Hypocrisy
Examples include
The behavior of people who
stereotyping (generalization do things that they tell other
of a group based on an
people not to do
individual), prejudice
(unjustifiable attitudebased
on stereotyping), and
discrimination (unjust
negative treatment,
commonly racial or sexual)
Rites of Passage
A celebration of
the passage which
occurs when an
individual leaves one
group to enter another.
It involves a significant
change of status in
society.
Slavery
A legal or economic
system in which
principles of property
law are applied to
humans allowing them
to be classified as
property, to be owned,
bought and sold
accordingly, and they
cannot withdraw
unilaterally from the
arrangement.
Themes in Huckleberry Finn
Greed
Gullibility
Intense and selfish
desire for something,
especially wealth,
power, or food.
A failure of social
intelligence in which a
person is easily tricked
or manipulated into an
ill-advised course of
action.
Exploitation of Others
Idea of White Supremacy
The action or fact of
treating someone
unfairly in order to
benefit from their work.
Fraud or Deception
In essence, fraud is the
intentional deception of
a person or entity by
another made for
monetary or personal
gain.
Superficiality of Religion
Instead of genuine faith, the
The belief that white
people are superior to shallow concern with how
those of all other races, one appears to others,
especially the appearance of
especially the black
being "religious".
race, and should
therefore dominate
society.