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." ... But in 1884 slavery was legally ov...

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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. ... Because of the controversial matter of his decision, Huck has a hard time deciding what to do and he is torn between what he thinks is right and what he is told is right. Through Huck's struggle of conscience and his uneasy conclusions, Twain portrays the idea that sometimes what feels right, contrary to popular belief, may actually be right; this can also be illustrated through the evolution of opinions on racism and slavery in society. ... Society&#x...

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By going against what other thought should be a peaceful approach to the issue at hand, Henry went against the tide and gave an aggressive approach to the problem overseas. ... From an early, pre-revolution standpoint arguing the independence of the colonists, to a point in American history where a certain people were not granted their rights even though that's what America stood for, Independence. In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain shows the relationship between a young boy, Huckleberry Finn, and a runaway slave, Jim. ... Though the idea of independence was fairly similar to th...

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