Controversy through Ignorance The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written in 1884. ... The story begins with the introduction of the narrator, Huckleberry Finn. ... Huck and Jim become very close friends. ... The aspects of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that create all the controversy are not what Twain intended for the reader to focus on. ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is not about racism at all, but the different elements of human relationships and interactions with one another. ...

• Word Count: 1318
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' is a classic novel ad should definitely be read by high school students. ... Here's my understanding of it: Huck and Jim both want freedom from certain things; while searching for freedom, Huck and Jim must battle loneliness together; and Huck experiences rebirth, (he becomes a new, pure person), as he makes his individual vs. society battle, which is always having to decide between the right, moral, human, logical, pure decision, and the merciless decision that abides with society. ... One of the less-harsh examples of this is when Huck and Jim...

• Word Count: 670
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the book Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, was a society brought up to be discriminatory against African Americans. ... Huck's father didn't support Huck's needs or provide the attention Huck deserved because he was a thoughtless drunk who abused Huck. It was inevitable that Huck would eventually look up to Jim because Jim didn't pressure Huck into religion or set rules and perimeters that Huck had to abide by. Huck's moral dilemma to turn in Jim nearly completes the evolution of Huck's character. ... Through adventures, Huck found the true Huck wh...

• Word Count: 448
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Religious Hypocrisy and Racism in Huckleberry Finn In Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, a very powerful and potent message lies behind the lighthearted and humorous storyline. Twain uses wit and humor in Huckleberry Finn to satirize and expose elements of society that he believed needed reform, namely religious hypocrisy and racial prejudice. ... She not realize that what she is advising Huck to do, she does not do herself. ... After Jim sees through Huck's ruse, Huck feels remorse. ... Huckleberry Finn attacks these issues through the use of wit and humor and sends a powerful message...

• Word Count: 814
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

I think that the book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" isn't racist. ... We should not ban a literary work such as Huckleberry Finn simply because it is not accepted by modern day standards. ... As a result Huck Finn, one of the greatest American novels is noteworthy. ... We have to remember that Huck Finn was written fifty years before Martin Luther King Jr. was born. ... That is why I think the book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" isn't racist. ...

• Word Count: 671
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain used Huck and Jim as the protagonists to show the contradiction of the racism in the American society. ... When Huck meets Jim in the Jackson's Island, Huck faces the first challenge. Huck is glad to find Jim in the island. ... However, Jim protects Huck from seeing the Pap's corpse in the floating house and treats Huck like his son. ... But immediately after Jim realizes that Huck's fooling him, Huck feels so sorry for Jim, who's thrilled to see Huck alive. ...

• Word Count: 1236
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

One of these examples is how Huckleberry Finn talks, "I never see such a nigger." ... When The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published, immediately many people began to think of it as offensive. ... However, this library was not the only one to believe The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was offensive. ... Ernest Hemingway wrote that "all modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.... ... Its opponents dwell on the fact that Huck helped a runaway slave and that they committed robbery together. ...

• Word Count: 1219
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry- Finn, Mark Twain utilizes the character of Jim, a runaway slave, to remark on society's ignorant attitudes to those that may differ from the masses. ... During Huck's adventure with Jim, Huck realizes much about himself through Jim. At one point in the story, Huck decides to play a mean trick on Jim in which he puts a dead snake in his bed... Soon, Huck realizes that what he did was unkind and wrong. He proceeds to apologize to Jim, showing much strength of Huck's character. ...

• Word Count: 477
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School