Why Is Huckleberry Finn Be Banned

Mark Twain's The adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been the target for many discussions involving racism, and anti abolitionist themes due to the constant use of the N-word throughout the text. Many have thought of banning the book from public school curriculum due to the negative feedback that some students and faculty members tend to be vocal about. However rather than banning the work from schools, information from The Guardian shows the publishers from NewSouth books have created an altered edition. The now altered edition replaces all instances of the N-word with slave so schools don't need to ban the book, but instead use the now safe for work edition. But even still, some schools refuse to allow the novel to enter the English curriculum

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about a boy named Huck who lives along the Mississippi river in a backwater town with his guardian an old widow and his best friend Tom Sawyer who was the star of his own book written by Mark Twain. Huck undergoes a situation where he is taken by his abusive and racist father who leads huck along a wrong path. Huck devises a plan to escape by faking his death and partners with a runaway slave along the way. The two form a kinship and make there way to freedom together while Huck learns to socially accept the slave as a normal human being like him. However due to the time period the book takes place in there's a large amount of slang geared towards African slaves. Some feel this hate speech is directed at today's black Americans and feel uncomfortable over the use of the word. However Peter salwen explains that Mark Twain's intentions were not to hurt certain individuals but instead to give a casually ironic vibe through the slang, this in turn would show the readers that this was an over exaggeration and show the flaws of stereotypical society back then. While Mark Twain's intentions were pure some still say he was a racist and the book should be put off shelves and out of the school

Faculty members in the south have already replaced the original version of huckleberry Finn with the censored version made by Newsouth books publishing, However is this really the right choice? Huckleberry Finn already deals with mature themes such as slave owning, murder, and public beatings (tar and feathering) yet the N-word is the only piece of censorship in the new version of the book. Ebsco article writer Deirdre Costello makes an interesting analogy with libraries in the summer. During the summer libraries are given new books and allowed to replace old books that may have issued complaints from some parents or readers, now the librarian has the choice to either rid they're library of these books preventing anyone from reading them or move them to a special selection for older more mature readers to enjoy. The connection to censorship between the two scenarios is similar in the way as the teacher can choose to avoid giving her students the book to read or give them a ¨clean¨ version to read. The censored version of the book is a pretty good alternative to nothing even if it still contains mature themes, it's not as bad as having the N-word over 205