Why Would a Good Novel be Kicked out of the Classroom?
A trashy and racist book would not even make it inside a school, more or less a classroom. The novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, is receiving negative attention.The main problem that students, parents, teachers, and even professors have is the usage of the N-word. After reading this adventurous story, it is extremely difficult to find the problem that is causing many upsets. Therefor, this incredible novel should continue to be in the high school curriculum because it offers students a realistic historical background, the meaning of the word nigger (referred to as the N-word) is changing over time and it receives numerous positive reactions. The Adventures …show more content…
It would be a shame if it is not kept in the classrooms. Although, there have been copies that replace the N-word with slave, many bright students believe the N-word belongs in the book. Two critics of The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, T.S. Eliot, and Lionel Trilling, think of the novel as a “masterpiece.” Trilling says it is “One of the world’s great books and one of the central documents of American culture” (Apstein). It is hard not to agree with their opinions, with the great information The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn provides for the readers. Critics are used to make books and novels look good and have good reports about them so that people will want to read them. In this case, Eliot and Trilling are commenting on the wonderful ness the novel truly provides for the readers. They see the true points and meanings that Twain is trying to reach and these critics want to let everyone else know that there is greatness inside the covers. It is better for the (going to be) readers to have a history of the book rather than just picking it up and reading it. Readers who just pick up the novel without any knowledge about it, will not understand the point Mark Twain is trying to grasp. For the Harvard Gazette, Jocelyn Chadwick voices her opinion on Huckleberry Finn. She claims the novel should be kept in classrooms because it is an important work that shows literary movements and fits well with the time period. She states, “It not only deals with a difficult time in American history, it marks an important transformation for Twain himself. Starting with Huckleberry Finn, Chadwick says, Twain’s writing stop being just stories and begins to reflect his social conscience” (“Fight”). Twain sees the issues of slavery and did so when he was a young boy too. This novel lets Twain express his feelings towards slavery and the truth about it. This novel not only means something
A trashy and racist book would not even make it inside a school, more or less a classroom. The novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, is receiving negative attention.The main problem that students, parents, teachers, and even professors have is the usage of the N-word. After reading this adventurous story, it is extremely difficult to find the problem that is causing many upsets. Therefor, this incredible novel should continue to be in the high school curriculum because it offers students a realistic historical background, the meaning of the word nigger (referred to as the N-word) is changing over time and it receives numerous positive reactions. The Adventures …show more content…
It would be a shame if it is not kept in the classrooms. Although, there have been copies that replace the N-word with slave, many bright students believe the N-word belongs in the book. Two critics of The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, T.S. Eliot, and Lionel Trilling, think of the novel as a “masterpiece.” Trilling says it is “One of the world’s great books and one of the central documents of American culture” (Apstein). It is hard not to agree with their opinions, with the great information The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn provides for the readers. Critics are used to make books and novels look good and have good reports about them so that people will want to read them. In this case, Eliot and Trilling are commenting on the wonderful ness the novel truly provides for the readers. They see the true points and meanings that Twain is trying to reach and these critics want to let everyone else know that there is greatness inside the covers. It is better for the (going to be) readers to have a history of the book rather than just picking it up and reading it. Readers who just pick up the novel without any knowledge about it, will not understand the point Mark Twain is trying to grasp. For the Harvard Gazette, Jocelyn Chadwick voices her opinion on Huckleberry Finn. She claims the novel should be kept in classrooms because it is an important work that shows literary movements and fits well with the time period. She states, “It not only deals with a difficult time in American history, it marks an important transformation for Twain himself. Starting with Huckleberry Finn, Chadwick says, Twain’s writing stop being just stories and begins to reflect his social conscience” (“Fight”). Twain sees the issues of slavery and did so when he was a young boy too. This novel lets Twain express his feelings towards slavery and the truth about it. This novel not only means something