This is a quote by Julius Lester, from his essay Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. ... Lester continues to write a haunting take on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, where he describes the nature of the book to be quite morally bankrupt. ... In his essay "Born to Trouble: One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn," Justin Kaplan states, "In 1984, school officials in Waukegan, Illinois, removed Huckleberry Finn from the required reading list after an alderman, according to the Associated Press, objected to the book's use of the word "nigger." ... The first real interaction between...

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