The book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been criticized from the time of its publication to today. "Mark Twain has been seriously accused by some readers of being a racist writer,"(Salwen 1). Twain uses the "N" word over two hundred times in this novel. To sundry black readers Twain's writings are offensive and called trash. Mark Twain implies within the book that black people are not as smart or intelligent as white people are. Most black readers believe this book should not be read in any school under the college level. It has been removed off the reading list for numerous elementary schools. Most of the teachers requesting this book to still be taught are white. Their argument for this novel to stay in the schools is that it shows how society has bettered itself. These teachers say "if you teacher slavery, you have to use the lan

Huck battles with his "conscience over whether or not to turn Jim in as a runaway slave"(Twain 92). Without question Huck accepts what he has been taught by church and society about slavery. Huck knows helping a runaway slave is morally and illegally wrong. Other words by helping a slave escape Huck is breaking one of society's most biggest laws at that time. Huck finally decides to "go to Hell" rather than give up his black friend Jim (Twain 95).

Wallace, John Huckleberry Finn is Racist Trash. San Diego: Greenhaven, 1988.

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