Huckleberry Finn Needs To Stay In Schools Did you know that Mark Twain’s The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn is one of the most challenged books in history. In fact, it was banned within the first year of its release. Recently, schools have been banning the book and removing it from the curriculum due to the racial slurs within it and its offensive nature towards students. However, these schools are wrong and do not understand the importance of this masterpiece. Huckleberry Finn should stay in classrooms because it attacks the attitudes and beliefs of the south, the racial slurs are not an issue, and it teaches valuable lessons. One of the most significant reasons why Huckleberry Finn should stay in classrooms is because it attacks the attitudes and beliefs of the south. …show more content…
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.” (Twain 162). The King and Duke are white and they are committing such such appalling acts. In this case, how are white men in any way superior to black men. In fact, compared to the King and Duck, Jim is superior in every way. He is honorable and has a good heart. He proves this early on in the book when he protects Huck from seeing his dad dead. “It's a dead man. Yes, indeedy; naked, too. He's ben shot in de back. I reck'n he's ben dead two er three days. Come in, Huck, but doan' look at his face—it's too gashly” (Twain 50). Jim protects Huck from seeing such a horrifying thing. Even though Pap (Huck’s biological father) was not much of a father figure, he was still Huck’s dad, and seeing him dead would have hurt Huck and he would have been scarred for the rest of his life. In this very moment, Jim (a “nigger”) becomes a better father figure for Huck than his real father, who was a white man. Jim is better than almost any other person within the story, and he is a black man. However, Twain did use racial stereotypes in the story quite a bit (Chadwick). For example when he and Huck are