Is It or Isn't it
One of the great American novels, Huckleberry Finn, is a great piece of literature that involves a great journey between a young boy named Huck and a slave that he befriends known as Jim. This book was a well written book, that some people think every high schooler should read. But some people have issues with the book. Huckleberry Finn is not a racist book, but many people take offence to the language that it used in the novel, like the use of the N-word over two hundred times.
People seem to forget that this book was written in a time in America when the use of the N-word was the common word for when talking to or about slaves. Twain was never intending to cause harm to people he was just trying to write a great novel that was time accurate. Also, the way Twain had Jim speak was seen as offensive to people. People found this offensive because it was making the slave look like he was dumb and below the 12 year old boy. This is shocking because slaves in …show more content…
This book is the truth about how America once was. The great Lionel Trilling once stated, “The truth of huck finn is of different kind from that of tom sawyer. It it more intense truth, fiercer and more complex”(Trilling 319). Trilling doesn't think the book is right for the use of racial slur, but he doesn't think it's wrong for the slur, he knows it the truth of America's cloudy past time. But there are many points people see in this book, comedy, great journey full of adventure and racism, but Tori Morrison thinks, believes in all of these, especially the racist part of the book. Her direct quote is, “In the early 80’s I read Huckleberry FInn again, provoked, I believe, by demands to remove the novel from the libraries and required reading lists of public schools”(Morrisonn 153). There is some understanding of her feeling considering she is African American, and was reading a book that was Just awful to African
One of the great American novels, Huckleberry Finn, is a great piece of literature that involves a great journey between a young boy named Huck and a slave that he befriends known as Jim. This book was a well written book, that some people think every high schooler should read. But some people have issues with the book. Huckleberry Finn is not a racist book, but many people take offence to the language that it used in the novel, like the use of the N-word over two hundred times.
People seem to forget that this book was written in a time in America when the use of the N-word was the common word for when talking to or about slaves. Twain was never intending to cause harm to people he was just trying to write a great novel that was time accurate. Also, the way Twain had Jim speak was seen as offensive to people. People found this offensive because it was making the slave look like he was dumb and below the 12 year old boy. This is shocking because slaves in …show more content…
This book is the truth about how America once was. The great Lionel Trilling once stated, “The truth of huck finn is of different kind from that of tom sawyer. It it more intense truth, fiercer and more complex”(Trilling 319). Trilling doesn't think the book is right for the use of racial slur, but he doesn't think it's wrong for the slur, he knows it the truth of America's cloudy past time. But there are many points people see in this book, comedy, great journey full of adventure and racism, but Tori Morrison thinks, believes in all of these, especially the racist part of the book. Her direct quote is, “In the early 80’s I read Huckleberry FInn again, provoked, I believe, by demands to remove the novel from the libraries and required reading lists of public schools”(Morrisonn 153). There is some understanding of her feeling considering she is African American, and was reading a book that was Just awful to African