The history of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is that of a book marked by controversy. Ernest Hemmingway said all great American literature comes from Huckleberry Finn, John Wallace counters that it's "smut" "racist" and "trash". The critiques of Wallace and his kind have endangered the place of Huck Finn on required high school reading lists across the country. One of the arguments critics make against the book is that because of the repeated use of the word "nigger" throughout the novel, students of African descent and African-Americans feel offended and abused by the novel. Two essays debating this point are "The Case Against Huck Finn" by John Wallace, and "We Give This Slur i
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