Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has been attacked

and banned since it was first published. It has been accused of being both

In 1905 The Brooklyn Public Library removed The Adventures of

Huckleberry Finn from the children's room because Huck was a liar who "not

only itched, but scratched," was dirty, used terrible grammar, and "said 'sweat'

when he should have said 'perspiration'". This is an example of what people

thought about the use of "low language" at the time. Twain's use of vernacular

dialect from that particular time period

The curriculum the school developed, was one that would teach highschool

Education, claiming that "the prejudicial effect of the racial characterizations

Cherry Hill Minority Civic Association presented a formal "Citizen's Request for

into a positive thing, a learning tool. I want to congratulate the board on what we believe is a monumental step." Also the new curriculum will include other writings by African American writers, such as Frederick Douglas, and poets such as Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes.

meeting was an understanding that nobody wanted to ban the book, "instead, we

response to parental complaints, in November 1996, a group of parents from the

goes on shore and "borrows" food and doesn't get punished for this. Now, at the

for the sake of his friendship with Jim, "All right, then, I'll go to hell." (Twain p.180)

of Twain's style. Twain used satire to attack slavery and the lack of civil rights for freed slaves. "Not only is it not racist, it is the greatest anti-racist novel by an American writer." Twain is merely portraying by way of Jim, a very realistic slave raised in the South during that time period. To say that Twain is racist because of his desire for historical accuracy is absurd. Many times throughout the novel Huck comes very close to rationalizing Jim's slavery. However, he is never able to see a reason why this man who has become one of his only friends, should be a slave. Through this internal struggle, Twain expresses his opinions of the absurdity of slavery and the importance

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