The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain - 1231 Words

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel about a young boy and a runaway slave running away from home. Some people consider this novel very controversial because it involves a lot of aspects of the pre-civil war times, where slavery was still legal and the n-word was okay. However the novel uses all this to teach the reader rather than to hurt, and should therefore be allowed to be read in 11th grade classrooms. The novel has some silly characters, and the author, Mark Twain, uses them to make fun of how people acted and how they treated others. The novel also has a lot of historic value, so getting rid of it is like erasing history itself. The story is about friendship, between two different yet very similar people, and how the†¦show more content†¦The King also sells Jim, even though Huck made it clear to not sell him. Jim throughout is not only associated with light often, but is the most humane character in the entire novel, which is ironic because he is treated the least humanely. â€Å"That is, he focuses on a number of commonplaces associated with ‘the Negro’ and than systematically dramatizes their inadequacy. He uses the term ‘nigger’, and he shows Jim engaging in superstitious behavior. Yet he portrays Jim as a compassionate, shrewd, thoughtful, self-sacrificing, and even wise man...†(Smith, 75). The con men are treated with respect until they commit their crimes, but because of Jim’s skin color, he’s instantly treated with disrespect. Twain makes fun of these characters to show how they treated each other, and how one not only can’t instantly give someone trust, but also not to instantly distrust someone either. Next, the story is made to take place in the time period right before the civil war, so everything that came with it is put in. Censoring, for instance, the n-word, would be undermining the book’s intention, which is to make a world for the reader to be immersed in. Not only that, but it would in a way erase history. Just because people don’t like how they treated others in the past with harsh language and racism doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist anymore, and denying it is an act of shame. â€Å"At the end of the novel, when he could have saved himself from discovery, he