Censorship is around the world everywhere. This includes famous books like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Banning this book has been a complace act since the book’s release. School systems have not stayed their wrath when it came to this book either. However, despite the fact the schools have ban the book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should stay in school curriculum because it confronts racism, addresses human issues, and is one of the best examples of a classic novel that America has.
The first reason for this is that the novel confronts racism, in a setting where it was common. An example would be how the character Jim is always looked on as just a stereotype, but this is simply not the case. Twain shows that Jim has emotion, just like any other human being (Salwen). This is shown when Jim feels bad for hitting his deaf daughter when he told her to do …show more content…
First, Twain addresses lynch mobs throughout the book by mocking the existence of them. Twain writes through General Sherburn, “you’re afraid to back down--afraid you’ll be found out to be what you are--cowards,” (146-147). Twain writes that the lynch mobs are just a bunch of cowards that bunch up because they are afraid to be called cowards. Twain does not just express this in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn either. He expresses outrage toward lynching in his other writing as well, not just in his novels (Alvarez). Twain mocks feuds as well. Through Buck’s commentary, he writes, “and by and by everybody’s killed off, and there ain’t no more feud. But it’s kind of slow, and takes a long time,” (Twain 108). Here, Twain mocks feuds for being nothing but a way for a bunch of people to kill each other off. The book also addresses the act of conning. Even now, people con for a living. In response to seeing the con men doing their “work,” Huck
The first reason for this is that the novel confronts racism, in a setting where it was common. An example would be how the character Jim is always looked on as just a stereotype, but this is simply not the case. Twain shows that Jim has emotion, just like any other human being (Salwen). This is shown when Jim feels bad for hitting his deaf daughter when he told her to do …show more content…
First, Twain addresses lynch mobs throughout the book by mocking the existence of them. Twain writes through General Sherburn, “you’re afraid to back down--afraid you’ll be found out to be what you are--cowards,” (146-147). Twain writes that the lynch mobs are just a bunch of cowards that bunch up because they are afraid to be called cowards. Twain does not just express this in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn either. He expresses outrage toward lynching in his other writing as well, not just in his novels (Alvarez). Twain mocks feuds as well. Through Buck’s commentary, he writes, “and by and by everybody’s killed off, and there ain’t no more feud. But it’s kind of slow, and takes a long time,” (Twain 108). Here, Twain mocks feuds for being nothing but a way for a bunch of people to kill each other off. The book also addresses the act of conning. Even now, people con for a living. In response to seeing the con men doing their “work,” Huck