Why Huckleberry Finn Should Be Banned

The novel not only helps teach valuable lessons, the novel educates youth about slavery and prejudice. If the novel is taken away, the youth’s education is degrading and furthermore society as a whole. When a topic is controversial that does not mean the novel should be banned solely because it may raise questions and leads to intellectual discussions; rather that topic should be shared to educate everyone to think deeper and to question society. Discomfort and controversy lead to a greater

One of Mark Twain’s best selling novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has been disputed ever since the novel has been published in 1884. The novel was based on a young white boy who escaped his abusive alcoholic father and had so many crazy adventure with Jim, a runaway slave. The novel also included racial slurs such as using the word “nigger” over 200 times. Over the time that has gone by, the novel is still unwanted and so many schools are discussing to ban this famous American literature because of just one word, “nigger”. So many people found this word to be offensive so instead of banning the book, the word “nigger” was replaced with “slave”. Also other options were considered such as making a new edition of the novel or just replace

So as you can see the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a great piece of american literature and should be taught in all high schools. not only because it shows how racism was back in the late 1800s but also because it shows the true meaning of the word

Negroes do not like it in any book or play whatsoever, be the book or play ever so sympathetic in its treatment of the basic problems of the race. Even [if] the book or play is written by a Negro, they still [would] not like it” (Henry). In addition, John Wallace believes that the word “nigger” is so offensive that he rewrote the novel without the word “nigger.”

Some parents want this book banned because they are afraid that the book could influence bullies against African American children in today’s society. However, in any history book or historical fiction about the pre-Civil War times in the United States, the same facts or even worse are shown.

Most say it should not be used in any form in today, although it is very prominent in schools. A parent of a high school student in Virginia says that the books are telling the kids it is okay to speak in this way. She states, "’This is great literature. But there (are so many) racial slurs in there and offensive wording that you can't get past that.’ said the parent of the student” (Beck). The slurs make the whole room uncomfortable and the students shouldn’t feel that way in the classroom. The teachers of the classes do not know how to teach it correctly which disturbs the students. "The question is not whether or not to teach this book, but how to teach this book, and it is an incredible opportunity to get students talking about our racial history and our racial present,"(Beck) If teachers are not comfortable teaching it, the correct message will not be received from the novel. Some individuals feel that it’s not fair to the students of the African-American race because they might feel targeted and fearful because they know of the existing racism in

The decision to ban the novel Huckleberry Finn from classrooms and libraries has been an ongoing controversy. The presence of the 'n word' and the treatment towards Jim, and other blacks in general, has made many readers uncomfortable. Despite this fact, Huckleberry Finn has been and remains a classic read. I do not believe the novel should be banned or sanitized because it is a part of American history whether it is good or bad, also we have no right to change someone's writing simply because we do not like how it is written, Mark Twain's writing should not be penalized because of the ideals of today.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a significant book in the history of American literature that presents readers with the truth of our past American society in aspects such as speech, mannerisms, and tradition that we must embrace rather than dismiss by censorship. It is a novel that has been praised and proclaimed America’s “first indigenous literary masterpiece” (Walter Dean Howells) as well as one that has been criticized and declared obscene. It has undergone much scorn and condemnation as a novel and many feel that it should be censored. This, however, is not the way it should be. Huckleberry Finn is a masterpiece and, as a matter of fact, it is one on many levels. The story itself, though

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a book that dealt with serious hate and censorship due to its message. From its use of satire to the unlikely friendship of the main character, it is very clear why this book was viewed as offensive in the 19th century. In the story, Huck Finn runs away to escape being civilized and makes an improbable friend in the process, he essentially starts to change his beliefs and values as him and this friend grow closer. Due to Huck’s own sense of morality, he ignores society’s moronic views and befriends a slave.

Give Students a Choice Huckleberry Finn, the staple of classic literature, a story of a boy and his friend traveling down the Mississippi river. It comes under fire often because of of the book’s blatant use of racism and it's rampant use of the n-word. And they're not wrong the book uses the n-word 219 times in 366 pages. Because of this, several school districts have decided to ban it from their acceptable reading lists. One man’s comments say that “Students can and should be engaged in constructive ways to learn… without being subjected to racial slurs” (Watkins).

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a controversial book that leads to disagreements amongst educators. Schools have to decide whether it is appropriate or not to teach this book. A school in Pennsylvania stopped teaching this book and made national news. The school in Pennsylvania decided not to teach this book because “‘the community costs of reading this book…. outweigh the literary benefits’” (Flood). Schools believe that Huck Finn is either too racist to be taught or the perfect opportunity to discuss racism. It creates discussions that are too hard for some teachers like Marylee Hengstebeck who stated that “if [she decided] to teach it, [she] must virtually ignore parts of the novel”. Huck’s struggle between

Well the first chapter was mainly about the original Jim Crow white people discriminating against the blacks. the fact that some black have seen the better life doesn’t mean that the disrespect from the whites are over originally blacks didn’t come enslaved a lot of them were treated as indentured slaves .as time passed whites were calling us savages because of the way we SERVIVED around 1770 the whites degraded from Africa Americans to Negros

“All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” this is what fellow writer had to say about this classic novel. Still, this novel has been the object of controversy since it was published more than 150 years ago. Some people argue that Huckleberry Finn is a racist work, and that the novel has no place in a highschool classroom. This feeling is generated because a main character in the story, Jim, and other slaves are referred to many times as “niggers.” When Mark Twain wrote this book, he was striving to show the general public that society was wrong in the past, that the way white people thought black people were less than human was a wrong viewpoint. The

Mark Twain has always been one of the most controversial authors of all time. Though in recent years, there has been increasing controversy over the ideas expressed in his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In some extreme cases the novel has even been banned by public school systems and censored by public libraries. The basis for this censorship is the argument that Mark Twain's book is racist, but in reality Twain was against racism and used this book to make people aware of what was going on in the south. He did this by using the regional dialect of the south, showing the attitude of the other characters in the novel toward black people, and showing his depiction of black characters. If one were to "read between the lines"

Once upon a time, in a world not far from here, there are students who are forced to miss their annual train ride to Hogwarts, lock the wardrobe to the magical land of Narnia, and walk through the English countryside themselves instead of upon the back of Black Beauty. Why are these students deprived of those occurrences? They live in America, the land of the free- except when it comes to the books they can read. In fact, many schools across America exercise the practice of banning books. Since 1982, libraries, parents, and schools have attempted to ban 11,300 novels, according to the American Library Association. The essentially innoxious books are challenged for an assortment of reasons, including use of malapropos language, graphic or explicit