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Summary Of Huckleberry Finn

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Is it ok to deprive people of education? Is it ok to change the past so that few people don’t get offended, but the future leaders of society become ignorant? During the 1840s, in the United States of America, slavery prevailed despite the huge movements against it. The novel Huckleberry Finn uses literary fiction to make the reader experience how was life for many different people during those times. In many places, especially the U. S. A., the book is being banned from schools and libraries because of its strong language, poor grammar and controversial topics. Mark Twain’s novel Huckleberry Finn should be taught in high schools despite its strong language, poor grammar and controversial topics. The first issue to be discussed is the controversial topics. Some of these topics are religious …show more content…

In Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses language to represent the different personalities of the characters. In a brilliant way, he makes you understand the background story of each character and who they are without saying their names with just reading one dialogue. In the 1840s, just like in the 2015s, people with different races, backgrounds, social status, educations, families and even experiences can influence a person’s manner of speech and accent. Twain makes it look easy to portray all that in each character through “poor grammar”. For example with Miss Watson: “Don’t gap and stretch like that, Huckleberry—why don’t you try to behave?” (3), in contrast to Pap: “begin to do suthin’ for him and give him a rest, the law up and goes for him. And they call that govment!” (28), in contrast to Jim: “Who? Me? Go ‘long. Doan’ talk to me ‘bout yo’ pints. I reck’n I knows sense when I sees it; en dey ain’ no sense in sich doin’s as dat” (81). We see the decay of education, status and power in each quote, which is Twain’s goal regarding the grammar and sentence

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