Should Huck Finn Be Banned Essay

According to Raziye Akkoc, a writer for The Telegraph, the American novel “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [has been banned] because [of] its use of the N-word was not "inclusive" and made students uncomfortable.” Mark Twain’s novel Huckleberry Finn is about a young man that travels down the Mississippi river with a slave named Jim, and the many different journeys they encounter. Many people in society, however, have come across the question of whether or not the novel should be banned because of some of the vulgar language in Twain’s work. Even though it includes poor grammar and spelling, Huck Finn is a novel that establishes good morals, true friendships, and demonstrates the true historic time period. Huck Finn shows morals to do right

While Jim and Huck were traveling down the Mississippi, they found some shelter in a cave. Huck was trying to play a prank on Jim by putting a dead rattlesnake in his bed, however, what Huck did not realize was that the mate to the rattlesnake would also come lay in Jim’s bed. Jim ended up being bitten, which made Huck feel really bad. Huck says “it was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger-but I done it… I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither… I wouldn’t done that… if I’d a knowed it would make him feel that way” (65). Huck realized how bad Jim felt after he played this prank on him, and even though the time period they are in, Huck still felt bad for doing this to Jim. He vowed never to play a trick like that on him again, which shows that he sees Jim as a friend, and is treating him like a human being, rather than a slave. Another time when Huck demonstrates true friendships is when he did not turn Jim in. While Huck and Jim were traveling down the Mississippi, they ended up needing some more supplies so Huck had to go into town to get some things. While he was in town, he found out that some men were going to go looking for Jim on the island that they were staying on. Huck quickly ran back to camp and shouted “git up and hump yourself, Jim! There ain’t a minute to lose. They’re after us!” (47). I can expand on this by saying that Huck quickly ran back to the

Jim and Huck were talking about whether or not Huck’s father, Pap, was going to stay in town or not, and Jim says “yo’ ole father doan’ know, yit, what he’s a-gwyne to do. Sometimes he spec he’ll go ‘way, en den agin he spec he’ll stay” (13). Jim is talking with poor grammar, but this is the way the African American people talked back then because most of them were slaves and did not get much education. Jim also uses poor grammar after him and Huck board a steamboat, which has shipwrecked on a rock, and are going to get off, but have lost their raft (53). I can explain this further by saying Jim uses this poor grammar because of the poor education he has had, which is caused because of him being a slave. As a slave he got poor education because he was not supposed to be smarter than his white owners. Twain’s work, therefore, should not be banned because of the poor grammar and spelling, which show the historic views in the