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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler of animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.-Pudd’nhead Wilson ’s calendar In Mark Twain’s Whisper to the Reader Mark try’s to prepare the reader to open there mind to this book of revolutionary ideas only written to help abolish the racism idealistic in the American south by portraying a few stereotypes disproving them. One such stereotype (Blacks Are dumb and inferior) is proved wrong when chamber the “dumb” black kid growing up white attends Hartford university as well as Pudd’nhead who made the stupid remark that he wanted to own half a dog thus killing it he was instantly very dimwitted to those around him but later you see that he’s actually extremely smart and he ends up cracking the case, Do I sense a little symbolism Mr. Twain? Mark twain uses both the black and white characters to portray the flaws of racism by having the rich whites being so completely oblivious to the flaws and the blacks just living with them thus proving that the racisms had become daunting that none of it was questioned in till the two boy found out that they were related. Interesting how the human mind works live and let live until your involved. Then you fight.