The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, it is a very controversial book and rightfully so, It contains many themes that aren't often discussed nowadays, including racism and the harmful effects of society. It told the story about a boy named Huckleberry Finn and a runaway slave named Jim, and their adventures down the Mississippi river, and it contained many themes that may offend people. I feel that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should not be censored and should be like it was 130 years ago. I believe censoring it would erase history and it’s important culture, and censoring would be useless because others could just choose to ignore it. Censoring Huckleberry Finn would erase important moments from history, and Huckleberry Finn should remain the way it has always been.Censoring it would erase important moment of history, and it would make the novel inaccurate. “it is never a good idea to sugarcoat the past. The past is what it is, immutable and non-negotiable”(Pitts). It would also remove important culture and the attitudes of the south before the civil war. “So it would be …show more content…
“But if you are not comfortable with that (discussion) then here is an alternative you can use” (Williams).However this would be a waste of thousands of dollars publishing these novels. And people are just avoiding this discussion and avoiding one of the principal parts of the novel. In general, creating new versions would be a waste of money and would just be ignoring the elephant in the room. In conclusion, censoring Huckleberry Finn would be pointless. It would be erasing important history and culture and avoiding culture. It would also take away important discussions about race, and removing dosen’t make sense since it is used constantly in popular culture. And printing censored versions of Huck Finn would be a waste of money and would avoid important