Why Huckleberry Finn Should Not Be Banned In Schools

It is thought that the teaching of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in high schools seems to result in some controversial outcomes amongst different audiences and readers. In result to this thought, the novel has been removed from assigning in many schools because of the content. One of the main and largest issues arising from the novel would be that Mark Twain accounts and savages for more examples of racism in his novel as in any American document known.

The primary conflict for the banning and withdrawal of the American novel is it's use of the word "nigger", as in referring to African American slaves. For the reasoning that the storyline is set in a different time, specifically, the 1840's before the civil war, the whole moral and outlook on life was different than now. You have to realize, African Americans did not have the freedom that they possess today, they were thought of as property. The way people in today’s society react to the use of the n-word being said by a white person, in accordance to the level of offence, brings out completely different emotions than when the word was used back then. To hear the

Their logic behind keeping the novel is its reasoning that it teaches many life virtues and lessons to live by.. As said by Lauriat Lane Jr., “Huckleberry Finn also gains its place as a world novel by its treatment of one of the most important events of life, the passage from youth into maturity.” This is just additional reasoning why the novel should be taught. Twain’s novel is also a symbolic example of how words could be said in one way and how they are interpreted by people in another way. This gives off as a lesson into the real world and how things work. Mark Twain indeed writes this book strictly as a source of education but this aspect seems to be overlooked and the novel becomes more focused on the racist