Huckleberry Finn Moral

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American classic and a valuable novel and should be included in all high schools curriculums. There are three main and very important points to support this fact. The first point is moral values and knowing what is right and what is wrong. Another point is historical reflection and the final is theme. The first reason The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should stay in high school curriculum is because of how the novel represents and shows the process of moral values. The book shows a lot of what’s right and of what’s wrong. Huck went from calling Jim a “nigger” and having to humble himself for 15 minutes just to apologize to helping and looking out for him. There have been many times where Jim …show more content…
This novel is something that can strongly shape a high school students moral compass. The theme of the book, by going through many debates, is basically slavery, racism, and social influences. Figuring what’s right and what’s wrong was a big part of this book. Slavery was considered wrong in the eyes of Mark Twain. You can tell how he describes and portrays Jim. Jim is kind and somewhat smart, at least for a slave in this time period. Throughout the novel Tom Sawyer and Huck change their views on slavery and Jim himself. They go from playing jokes on him, making fun of him, and taking time to actually humble themselves to apologize for the wrong they’ve done to him, to saving his life, doing him favors, and developing friendships with him.”Twain was identifying and challenging social constructions of gender, distribution of power within a patriarchal society, and socially determined racial categories.” (Skandera-Trombley). Twain uses irony and satire to shed light on the theme of the past being extremely racists and having too much social influences. What hasn’t been shown to the world is how society influences people 's’ acts and thoughts. Which the actual culture and history is being shown in this