Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American classic and by many is considered one of the best bildungsroman novels of all time. The Novel was first released in England in 1884, after it had been rejected in the United States, after the book’s great success it was later released in America in 1885. It has been deemed one of the most controversial book’s ever written for it’s use of the n-word, which has caused it to be banned in schools and library’s all over the country, but is Mark Twain actually racist? Professor David Bradley is an American Literature expert, and he is is strongly against censoring the book, he believes the book would not be Huck Finn without it., and in fact the use of the word could be a tool against racism. It has a very negative connotation so people say it or talk about it, but problems never go away when they are ignored. Huck begins the story as a racist, but this is all he has ever known, but through the course of the book he changes a lot, and sees Jim as his best Friend. One incident of Huck’s views changing is when he has to go apologize to a black man, he is not pleased about doing …show more content…
They said the book was “unworthy to be placed on their shelves” and many of the papers supported them. Huckleberry Finn has been stirring up controversy for over a hundred years and there seems to be no end in sight. One day the book will hopefully be used to its full potential in the classroom for helping overcome racism. The friendship they build becomes so strong that when JIm is captured, and sold Huck goes after him, at the time it was unthinkable for a white person to do that for a slave. They both learn to look out for eachother “I went to sleep, and Jim didn't call me when it was my turn. He often done that.” (23.30) Jim becomes more of a family than Huck’s ever