Why Should Huckleberry Finn Be Banned In Schools

Would you ban a book that teaches a good lesson just because it has a word you don’t like? Schools all across America are banning “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in high school just because it has the N-word. The book teaches a lesson in respecting people even if they have a different skin color. Plus it usually taught to Juniors, which know that it is just a word and know that the past shouldn’t just be forgotten. That is why “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” should still be taught in high school. The Junior class have been in school for over 10 years and have read many stories and heard about a lot of our country's history. By Junior year they already know that people use to talk, like how it is depicted in the book. They realize that the book is written in a way to show them how they would talk/ act without any censorship. But the fact that it wasn’t censored in any way is what people don’t like. Even though the book is there to teach a lesson they still want to ban it. If we remove the N-word then, the lesson wouldn't be as meaningful it wouldn't depict how they talked correctly.

We are letting the word change a classic book into a book filled with controversy. There is even a company that makes the book without the word, changing it with the word “slave.” But even that won’t do, even if we ignore the fact that the word is making us change our literature, it doesn’t work in the context of the book in the quote “Niggers would come from all around there and give Jim anything they had, just for a sight of that five-center piece;” they use the N-word to describe free black people. But since they are now called slaves it doesn’t make as much sense and the whole meaning of the sentence is askewed. One of the main reasons people want to change/ ban the book is to forget the