Ah yes mes amis, we have come to the final blog. I am sad to see it end, but I shall be seeing you all next semester, no?

And without further ado.. Blog cinq:

We discussed in class about Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" and whether or not the work is racist or not. I'm of the side that thinks it is not; personally. Twain was obviously trying to bring pro-African-American sentiment into his book, even though slavery was already abolished when the book was published.

However, that isn't the theme of this blog... the question of if we sin when we break laws is.

I take you back to when Huck Finn was torn between selling Jim back or helping him escape. Huckleberry Finn believed, like most Southerners, that keeping a runaway slave was a sin and he would be condemned to hell for it. But slavery was unjust... so is it a sin to break an unjust law? Even if that law is hindering the growth of society? According to the many philosophers we have read this semester, it is right to break an unjust law. However as Christians, we are torn sometimes; God tells us to follow the rules but like Martin Luther King, Jr. said, it is our legal right to break an unjust law.

I think Huck would be in the legal right to not sell Jim back because Jim is A.) a friend and B.) a fellow human being, capable of emotions. Huck saying that he'll "just go to Hell" after deciding puts the icing on the cake for revolts. This semester has been all about changing society through the actions of the people and nothing sums it up better than Huck Finn.

and now my Honors chums and chumettes.. I bid you all a good night. And to my fellow sophomores.. we're on our last semester of Honors seminars next semester guys.. we're almost done. *sniff*