Two Perspectives to analyze Huckleberry Finn in 1885.
Upon reading Mark Twain´s Huckleberry Finn , it becomes difficult to convey in a single paragraph everything that is to be analyzed about it. From Tom and Huck´s process of maturation through their "adventures" to the descriptions of landscapes and geographical landmarks in each of the chapters, the author instills on the reader a desire to dive into its pages, with either pleasure or dissension. This is what seems to have happened to some of the critics in the year of its publication, 1885. This novel gave rise to an assortment of different views regarding its content and the topics it dealt with. From the variety of reviews that were made available to us, two of them were notorious. It is easily seen how the Concord Public Library Committee´s view on the book differentiates from Thomas Seargent Perry´s analysis of the novel.
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Eighteen-eighty five was not only a continuum of racism and slavery in most areas, but also it was the last year of a three-year-long profound economic crisis. Thus, the ideological majority of this period did not find in Huckleberry Finn a reflection of their own views of the world. As can be seen in the report about this ban, the novel was not simply criticized; it was excluded morally and physically from Concord Library´s shelves. Unanimously, the members of the Committee deemed the novel "trash, containing but little humor". Moreover, they described it as being "rough, coarse, inelegant and not elevating at all", hence exiling Twain´s work to the sewer. In clear opposition to Mark Twain´s work, this ban was based on the idea that Huckleberry Finn was "more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable