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Should Huckleberry Finn Be Taught In Schools

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The novel by Mark Twain, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, has caused chaos among the education world since it was published. To date the novel is still being banned, not being taught and is receiving harsh reviews from critics and parents alike. An important question that many parents are faced with is if the novel should be taught in school. Although this book has been published for over a hundred years, Twain's novel is a very hot topic. Just because some people today are not mature enough to understand what Twain was trying to achieve through Huckleberry Finn, that is no reason to withhold the content from today’s youth. What Twain has wrote in this novel can be offensive to some, it is a classic american novel and contains numerous moral lessons within it’s pages. …show more content…

parents, teachers, and the general public’s youth. The book is not what causes this uncomfort, it is the level of maturity that these people have, which is not enough to comprehend Twain’s story. According to John H. Wallace, a critic, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” should be removed from all schools’ reading list because the novel is “the most grotesque racist trash ever written”(309). Most of these complaints and feelings for Huckleberry Finn are caused by middle school and high school populations. The level of maturity from this group of people is questionable. If they do not want to make the time and commitment to understand Twain’s novel, they are missing out on great moral lessons and making many other smart, young people hesitate to even pick up this

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