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groundbreaking themes of Huck Finn, outweigh the reasons why people believe it should be banned, making it an essential read in American literature. There are parts of the novel that should not be read by young children, such the use of the word "nigger," how Huck saves a black man, Huck’s lack of maturity, and Huck’s fraudulent schemes require a certain amount of maturity that is not possessed by middle school students. Therefore, the teaching of this novel should be restricted to ninth grade as

Although Huckleberry Finn can be brutally honest at times, it still provides readers with outstanding teaching moments throughout. The book shows just how big of an issue race was at one point in the United States. It also effectively uses Jim to show just how severe the punishment for runaway slaves was, something that many children are unaware of to this day. Besides the conflicts, the story also shows how people from two completely different backgrounds can bond with each other. In the story,

Wide Sargasso Sea is a novel written by Jean Rhys, discussing the life of Antoinette Cosway. Antoinette and her family are Creole and they live on a sugar plantation in Jamaica. Due to Antoinette’s Creole background, she and her family face a lot of problems and discrimination during their lives. However, when Antoinette grew older she had one friend named Tia. They played and talked together despite their obvious differences. On the night that Coulibri is set on fire, Antoinette flees with her

The historical fiction novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is one of the most remarkable written pieces of literature in the United States due to its outstanding use of dialect. Twain was born and raised in Florida, Missouri- an extremely racist state-where the manner of how people speak impacts society, so he decides to write a novel, which he hopes will represent the different terminologies and their importance. Growing up, Twain’s father owned a slave and had an uncle who

Finley Roles November 18, 2016 Mrs. Fellinger AP English 11 Defying Historical Stereotype in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Civilization evolves over time, trading old ideas for new ones. Society grows in intellect and innovation. Though, despite the heights that humanity has soared, impurity still remains. Regardless of the best efforts, millennia of oppression have ingrained the tendency to hate into the psyche of man, despite centuries of reform. Racism continues to propagate every corner of

In today’s day and age, it is incredibly common for somebody to go home after a long day of school and work and play some video games. It is even a job held by many people and it is a growing occupation. That is amazing for those who love to game, but it can also be detrimental to society as a whole. There have been those who have been using that platform to voice their racist opinions and to inflict verbal abuse to random people. Racism is a topic that has always been a hot topic for debate

The Controversy Over Race Long after his death, American novelist Mark Twain continues to be accused of being a racist writer as a result of his literary masterpiece Huckleberry Finn. Many critics argue his book is offensive, prolongs slave-era stereotypes, and has no place being taught in today’s classrooms. However, what many critics fail to realize is that Twain wanted to write a historically accurate book in order to convey to readers how strong the racial clashes between whites and blacks

“True Grit” is about a fourteen year old girl trying to bring justice to the man who killed her father. She hires a sheriff named Rooster to help her. Through characterization, setting, and law enforcement, Charles Portis in “True Grit” sets an accurate portrayal of the time period know as the old west to create a more riveting story. Mattie is a fourteen year old girl, who has the responsibilities of an adult, which was expected of people that age in this time period. “[Mattie] kept his books for

power of word choice in their works. In Countee Cullen’s poem entitled “Baltimore’s Brush With the Harlem Renaissance,” he writes, “Now I was eight and very small, and he was no whit bigger, and so I smiled, but he poked out his tongue and called me, ‘Nigger.’ “...That’s all I could remember.” (Cullen 1) In these words, Countee Cullen showed that one word could make a major impact on him. This is exactly why Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should not be banned or censored. If the book were to be censored

The controversy over the roots of racism lead back before the Civil War and have aroused speculation within society to this present day. The role of racism in American society has caused a wide mass of people to question whether society has even bothered to change the perspective in regards to the issue. Everyone defines the “n-word” in different ways due to the way they have been raised to know it, deriving it back to racism. The controversy over banning Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry