Mark Twain, real name Samuel L. Clemens, was born in November of 1835 and died in April, 1910. Mark live in Florida, Missouri and was able to see slavery first hand. As a child Mark’s family owned slaves until the death of Mark’s father. Mark was able to work on the Mississippi River as a steamboat pilot. So in the story Huckleberry Finn he was able to write about the river from experience and he could have base towns in the Huckleberry Finn about actual towns he saw along …show more content…
Someone who disagrees with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is John H. Wallace. John disagrees with the story due to its racial content throughout the book. He says that the constant use of the word “nigger” is offensive and does not belong in the classroom. He believes that this book is so popular because “there is money to be made selling books that ridicule black people.” (Wallace, 17) John also believes that the use for the word makes black students uncomfortable which results in them not paying attention which will hurt their grades. Not only does it hurt their grades but they will blame the teacher for the allowance of the “n” word will have a negative effect in which “the black child tends to reject the teacher because the student is confident that the teacher is prejudiced.” (Wallace, 18) Wallace also disagrees with how the books depicts blacks as not human but objects. He quotes when Huck goes to Aunt Sally’s house and she wants to why he is