Huck Finn renders this requirement complete because it highlights the racist society that was ubiquitous throughout pre-Civil War South, while bringing out the raw emotional aspect to the novel, and adding another dimension to the objective history lessons taught in a classroom. ... The novel Huck Finn takes place in the antebellum South, however Mark Twain wrote it after the Civil War itself. Even during the post-Civil War era, Southerners showed strong racist sentiment towards African Americans through the Jim Crow laws and "separate but equal " treatment, influencing the nature of the novel...

• Word Count: 2046
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In a diverse and constantly changing society, the issue of censoring classic literatures has long been controversial; does the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn perpetuate racism, or does it have literature value? The contentious novel is criticized by the Concord Public Library as "more suited ...

• Word Count: 640
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate