Into The Sun

Reading Shelley Fisher Fishkin's theory I couldn't help recall someone, but I didn't really knew who that someone was... When reading a segment about the mutation in significance of the novel if the narrator were to be a black kid, I remembered. Like a daguerreotype, good ol' Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was probably the first political leader (that I know of), who played with being interracial, and the first one which this factor directly influenced the outcome of a whole nation.

He was not a nice guy, he is allegedly responsible for the genocide of more than 30,000 Haitians, which is not a nice thing at all. The thing is, he really had it with black people, he despised them. Even despite the fact he was dark colored, and he used make up in an attempt to cover it up. However, since he was kind of nice, he invited American black baseball players to play in the Dominican league, being considerate of the fact they were heavily alienated in their country, and by inviting them, he could satisfy his like for baseball. The guy had serious issues, that's for sure, but at least he was not satirical at all, (except for the make up), during his dictatorship he declared an open crusade to black people, especially black Haitians. He probably is not as cool as androgynous models but still, he had his trademark.

Fisher's theory, is in fact, somewhat incoherent, taking into account Huck as a character is, (up to a certain level), interracial. The purpose of Huck being a white boy beyond any satirical purposes set by the author is that the novel had to evolve as a story of racism in 19th century America. And this was portrayed by the contrasting relationship of Huck and Jim. By Huck being black, half of the moral dilemmas presented by the author in the novel would have been empty or non-existent.

Trujillos pathology emerged from him being black.

Get the point?