" Another critic goes on to say "The book is flippant and trash of the veriest sort. It deals with a series of experiences that are certainly not elevating, it portrays blacks in a negative light, and it should not be tolerated in the public library." Personally I do not find this book to be immoral in its tone or full of trash. Mark Twain is describing some of the hardships and struggles that a young boy faces in life. If describing experiences that deal with life, and how a boy overcame them are immoral and trashy, then I guess these critics who put down this book are the most perfect people in the world and have never faced any major problems in their life. Sure, not all people run away from home and float along the Mississippi River but there are many people who have problems such as: broken homes, finding friendship, being educated, and many other problems that Huck Finn experienced. These critics also believe the book to be full of racist remarks about blacks. They believe that Mark Twain is portraying Hucks friend Jim, who is black, in a negative and racist way. They believe that blacks are being put down, made fun of, and looked upon as a lesser human being. It is true that blacks are looked at in a different light in this book, but all you have to do is look back in time and realize that how Mark Twain describes blacks is the way it was back in the 1800's. Blacks were slaves to white people and while there is no excuse for this practice, Mr. Twain is simply creating an atmosphere that was true to the books time period in which it was taking place. One of the great black novelists, Ralph Ellison, noted how Twain allows the character, Jim, to be portrayed with "dignity and human capacity" in this novel. Ellison goes on to say, "Huckleberry Finn knew, as did Mark Twain, that Jim was not only a slave but a human being and a symbol of humanity.and in freeing Jim, Huck makes a bid to free himself of the conventionalized evil taken for civilization by the town"--in other words, of the abomination of slavery itself.