Why Is Huck Finn A Literary Classic

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Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a literary classic. While this book is notorious for being banned in schools, I am pleased to have read it for this assignment. I enjoyed Huck Finn and appreciated it for its historical aspects as well as its character development.

To start, without having read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, I was easily able to get up to speed on what was going on. I find it interesting how Twain wrote the novel two decades after the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War. However, it is important to note that the South was still struggling with racism and the impacts of slavery. This is reflective in Huck Finn, and showcases the author’s attitude on the subject.

In addition to its historical