Since its publication in 1885, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by Mark Twain has been challenged for a variety of flaws. ... Challenging, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," from the curriculum, comes from the, "books frequent use of the 'n-word'-- 219 times by one count, 215 by another.... " Since the new edition's release, controversy still lingers whether, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," should be allowed to be a part of the required curriculum, and taught its original format. ... Mark Twain's, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," portrays a dar...

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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." ... In conclusion, my take on "The Adv...

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set by Mark Twain in the pre-civil war era, when both racism and slavery were at a highpoint. ... For example, because of the strict point of view that society has enforced on him, he is afraid that "it would get all around that Huck Finn helped a nigger to get his freedom; and if [he] was ever to see anybody from that town again [he"d] be ready to get down and lick his boots for shame" (191). ... Society's view on racism and slavery at the time of Huck Finn is very different than society's view on it today; this goes to show that because of it...

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As Mark Twain composed "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," he implicitly amplified the setting to be more that an average backdrop for the characters to interact in. ... The political diction used by Twain, mocked the government from Pap's point of view to portray the extreme inequality among the people. ... To conclude, Twain's use of diction in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, highlights the questionable ethics of Southerners, and creates the ideal setting with the use of colloquial and political diction to emphasize them. ...

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Discoveries made by physical scientists and mathematicians were changing the ways people viewed the universe. ... The most well-known writer of this time was Mark Twain, complimented for one of the most famous short stories in American literature, THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN and LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. ...

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