An indepth look at Huckfinn's racial issues
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a book that should be read by today’s youth, isn’t being read. Many pre-schools, middle schools, and even high schools deem the book unreadable for our youth. It would seem that the book’s overall content, and what it supposedly teaches is under fire by many people. In a NewsHour interview, Shelley Fishkin, an noted author of a book that was against Mark Twain spoke out against Twain’s book. She explained that the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a “Trojan Horse” in the schools. She compared the Trojan Horse to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, because she thought that it touched on the very sensitive issues in society today, and once the book was in public schools, she thought that teachers would treat it like any other book. Because the teachers thought the book was harmless to the students it would explode like a grenade because of all the “combustible issues” in the book according to her logic. Combustible issues such as the word “nigger” are often used in a derogatory sense in the book to add to the flame that would eventually cause its censorship. Chester B. Stevens, vice-president of the African American Parent Coalition(AAPC), described that his use of the word “Nigger” was like “t
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Approximate Word count = 2318
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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