Should Huckleberry Finn Be Allowed In Schools

The fictional, satirical novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain in 1876 has become popular over 125 years of it being written. The novel has become famous for many different motives but the main reason being the number of times that the word “nigger” is used, the word is used 219 times. Back in the 1950s, many white and black parents called this novel out for being “racist”. “Today there are school districts in America that ban this American classic for one reason-one word: “nigger,” a word so offensive it's usually called the “N-word”(Debate). In my opinion, It makes no sense that the book is getting banned from schools. Doubtless, it may seem racist to us, but when the novel was written in the context of its time,

It should be allowed since the book shows us realism and it is simply welcoming us into realism. When the original publication happened many guardians attacked the novel since the main character was a disobedient child. This is just like a big sign saying “WELCOME TO REALISM!” Many readers just read it and thought it was a racial book because of the many times the word “nigger” is used, but with no doubt, some readers just discovered “Wonderfully complex and realistic characters” (CBS). We can see that huck is rebellious for a teenager, Pap, Huck’s father is obnoxious, and careless just as the many other drunkies, and Jim is uneducated as slaves tend to be. Since the novel is realistic Huck can be quite painful or also quite funny by this I mean that Huck is a human in a book. Humans have many feelings especially when they are kids, like Huck a thirteen-year-old, he is just starting to be a teenager and is acting out. The novel’s jokes make the journey passable. These jokes make the journey passable because if the novel was simple then not a lot of people would read the novel. Every person loves a little comedy. This will allow the students to understand Twain’s comedy because of how Huck’s pronunciation is also, many parents worried about their children studying too much or always staying indoors, this lead to Twain writing about all of this in his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. We can see how

Really changing nigger to slave would not be an upgrade since slave means “a person held in servitude as the chattel of another” (Merriam Webster) and “a member of a class or group of people who are systematically subjected to discrimination and unfair treatment” (Merriam Webster). Aren't these two words the same meaning? I mean they are both offensives. They both can affect someone. Just by changing a word does not eliminate our history of slavery. Is there even an actual problem with using the word nigger, most teenagers hear it when they are listening to a rap song so it should not be a surprise if it is used in a novel that actually explains our history. Yes, the n-word may affect many people but if it actually affected many people then there should not be any discrimination happening in today's society since it truly affects people, right? But this isn't true since we can see discrimination towards African American. We can see it in the Pretrial Release, “The National Academy of Sciences found that blacks are more likely than whites to be incarcerated while awaiting trial” (HuffPost). This shows us that our society only changed in some ways like not having slaves any more but there are different ocasiones that still show us that racism still exists. If the word nigger was changed it would not match the context of the time. In that time the novel was written, our nation (mostly south) was suffering from