Mark Twain's, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," has been controversial since it was released in 1884. ... Huck Finn was designed to portray the realist aspect of life.Twain intended to make The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to satirize life in the South and the change from slavery to equality. ... In today's society, many high schools are racially mixed, so when classes dive into The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, if teachers don't confront the issue of the novel's use of the "n-word", it's bound to be taken offensively. "Despite the fact that is i...

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• Grade Level: High School

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the greatest "American- novels ever written. ... Twain's use of structural irony allows the reader to see the vulnerability of this 13-year-old boy, and then grow with him as he makes profound choices in his actions. ... Huckleberry Finn is also the great American novel because of the pursuit of individualism. ... I believe Huckleberry Finn lives up to the title of one of the greatest American novels ever written. ... That is what is so American about Huckleberry Finn. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The irony in this that Huck's father, a man who is clearly morally, financially, socially, and intellectually inferior to the mixed-race man in town who is intelligent and wore nice clothes, believes he is superior over the man because of the different skin colors. ... They all have the potential to possess human emotion and to succeed in life and Twain supports this idea in Huckleberry Finn....

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