What is racism? ... Jim is depicted as a slave in the south during a period when slavery was common and widely accepted as the way of life. ... I think that the book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" isn't racist. ... We should not ban a literary work such as Huckleberry Finn simply because it is not accepted by modern day standards. ... That is why I think the book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" isn't racist. ...

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Mark Twain's, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," has been controversial since it was released in 1884. ... The book's use of the "n-word" leaves many people wondering exactly what Twain's intentions were for writing such a popular novel. ... 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. ... "Despite the fact that is it the most taught novel and most taught work of American literature in American schools from junior high...

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It is the story of a boy on a mission to help a slave, Jim, escape from slavery. ... Mark Twain's inclusion of satire in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an excellent attribute of the book. ... During the discussion the boys decide that they will kidnap people and then hold them for ransom; however, noone knows what ransom is. ... These are just two examples of many Mark Twain included in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an excellent novel with enormous appeal. ...

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There are many people that want The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain censored. ... Also, Twain shows Huck's internal battle with his learned, racist tendencies and his moral obligation to do what he knows what is right. ... Huckleberry Finn is not the person they want to act like. ... Slavery happened. ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. ...

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In the case of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, such subjectivity causes major conflict amongst its readers. ... On the other hand, I believe the exact opposite in that Huckleberry Finn actually encourages civil rights and black equality. ... The most apparent controversial character in Huckleberry Finn is that of slave Jim. ... They found Huckleberry Finn to be "more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people." ... Through Huckleberry Finn, Twain tries to bring these things out in the open and get people to not judge a man based on his skin, but on the content of his c...

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ranks fifth on the American Library Association's list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of the 1990's. ... Huck doesn't care what the consequences are, just as long as he's doing what he feels is right. ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains an abundance of racial slurs, however, many of these critics can't go past the language and are unable to grasp Twain's true intent. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn wouldn't be taught in schools if it wasn't thought to be educational for its readers. ... ...

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At the beginning of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huckleberry Finn is nothing more than a typical southern youth with a predilection for mischief and adventure. ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a great American fiction novel written by Mark Twain detailing the escapades of a Caucasian youth named Huckleberry Finn and an African American slave owned by Finn's caretaker named Jim. ... One of the most important occurrences in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the maturation of Huckleberry Finn is when he apologizes to Jim and recognizes that Jim is indee...

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The ending of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is one of the most contentious endings in literature. ... However, Maria Konnikova, author of "Is Huckleberry Finn's Ending Really Lacking? ... However, this transformation is what makes Huck realistic. ... Konnikova, however, is able to see how Huck's susceptibility to peer pressure is what makes Huck realistic. ... In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain shows the growth of a young boy through his realistic protagonist, Huck. ...

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was written by Mark Twain, and was published in 1885. ... The number one reason why "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is banned is because of the racism throughout the book. ... This does not mean that the use of the word is acceptable by any means, but, Huck Finn was a child, and he only did what he had grown up doing. ... When Twain wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", it was the first book to be written in dialect. ... I can completely understand why someone, especially an African American, woul...

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The first thirty-one chapters of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are what most people think of when they think of the title. ... Twain tells the story from Huckleberry's point of view, using his naive and innocent mind to convey the unfairness and hypocrisy of slavery and Christianity, and how cruel people can be to one another. During the course of those chapters, Huck and Jim form a kind of father-son bond, and Huck stops thinking what he's been taught- that slavery is right, and blacks are inferior. ... The last ten chapters of Huckleberry Finn take Huck to a ranch Where...

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An Analysis of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn In the first few decades of the 19th century, the rapid development of the American politics, economy and culture led to the growing acuteness of sectional struggle between the North and the South, the central point of struggle is over slavery. ... The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 did not fundamentally solve the majority of Northerners deeply, they refused to be responsible for catching escaped slaves, and even helped them to escape or provided shelter for them, By that time The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published, Ma...

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the greatest "American- novels ever written. ... Huckleberry Finn is also the great American novel because of the pursuit of individualism. ... By going to the North, Jim will escape slavery and have "freedom- from his master. 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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Like many authors of his day, Mark Twain, who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, wrote about the world as it was. ... An example of realism The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in which Twain brings characters who have real problems concerning the issues of the period. ... While The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a realistic novel, there are many elements that satirize events that occurred at the time. ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, therefore is a realistic novel. ... Regionalism, however, was displayed most prominently in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn due to se...

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HUCKLEBERRY FINN "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is set in Missouri in the 1830's and it is true to its time. ... He gets to know Jim on their flight to freedom (Jim escaping slavery and Huck escaping his drunken, abusive father), and is transformed. ... Huck has to seek out the truth in his life when he is faced with the tough decision whether or not to rescue Jim when he is captured and held for return to slavery. ... By his decision to risk hell to save Jim, he saves his own soul and pursues what he wants, not what the world wants. ... Speaking of robbery, Huck and Tom show that h...

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In the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, Huck goes on an adventure down the Mississippi River and has many experiences along the way. ... " (p.20) Pap's decision affects Huck, because he can't decide for himself what he wants. His father constantly holds Huck back, and therefore Huck can't establish what's right and wrong. ... Huck Finn is a very dynamic character. In the novel, his opinions on slavery completely change. ...

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

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Huck Finn: A Classic Controversy Throughout the years The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain has left criticism and controversy in its wake. ... However, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the most significant pieces of classic literature in this country. ... If the novel of Huckleberry Finn is read carefully it is quite simple to see the satiric intent of the author Mark Twain. ... In an essay written by Toni Morrison, the she explains, "The brilliance of Huckleberry Finn is that it is the argument it raises" (386). ... The controversy that Huck Finn is surrounded in is ...

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While some of its material is considered offensive and crude, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by Mark Twain, should be taught in classrooms due to its well-established, unquestionable literary merit. ... Since 1885, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has encountered a more modern wave of controversy that centers around race. ... However, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" needs to be read in the context of the time period and culture in which the novel is set. ... This event shows that Twain does intend for the word "nigger" to bring any offense as he is merely trying to desc...

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Twain was viewed by some as being racist or as being anti-slavery by others; two very contradictory ideas. ... Taking the theme of society's unfairness and analyzing it, it can be seen that through The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain shows the cruelty and injustice of society by the way of a young boy, Huck Finn. ... Huckleberry Finn's life is not exactly what would be described as "fairytale perfect.... The book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ultimately shows that Mark Twain looked upon society as rather uncivilized, hypocritical, and savage. ... He did that thr...

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The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, The Adventures of Walter Mitty by James Thurber, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain show numerous examples of this throughout their storylines. Between Gatsby possessing an outcast reputation, Mitty possessing an abstract mind, and Huck Finn challenging a strong opposition to racism and slavery, the lack of conformity in these pieces and in this world today are evident. ... In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck shows his lack of conformity through his opinion on racism and slavery by acting as Jim's mentor through...

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Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the greatest, most daring novels in the world. ... Yet, again to oppose that is a quote by a reader, "Anyone who is offended by this book is obviously ignorant of the true purpose of this book (which does not show slavery to be right, I might add) and perhaps should find out a little more about it than what OTHERS have told them." ... Huckleberry Finn still stands as a powerful representation of experience through the brand new eyes of an innocent boy. ... Twain uses his main character, Huckleberry Finn, to convey his literary...

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain and The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, by Chris Fuhrman, are two excellent juxtaposing novels. ... In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck, the main character's morale is transformed by one of the main flaws in society: Racism. ... Much like Huck in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Francis from The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys undergoes an individual maturation and development. ... I, like Huck, made a decision that was radical in order to do what I thought was right. ... However I, like most other people in The Adventures of H...

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In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the time period and inherited prejudices from the era in which it is written provide the young Huckleberry Finn with a severe moral dilemma that deals with slavery, honesty, and Huck's lifestyle. ... Huck Finn still manages to provide readers with an ideal display of uncorrupted human morals. ... Huckleberry Finn often returns to his unresolved moral dilemma about slavery, lifestyles, and honesty throughout his adventures including before he reaches the river, while he is on the river, and once he leaves the river due to the constan...

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Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Frederick Douglass" A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass give a realistic view of slavery in the U.S. ... Despite the aspect of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn being a fiction, the characters from this novel realistically portray a true view of society's feelings about slavery. ... Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn also contains information about the slave's view of, or attitude towards, slavery. ... In contrast to The Adventures Huckleberry Finn, Douglass" A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Dou...

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The book is about Huckleberry Finn and Jim. ... The book takes place about 20 years before the civil war; therefore slavery is a major component. ... "What was the trouble about, Buck? ... These are just some of the many ways that Mark Twain develops the theme of mans inhumanity to man in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. ... Twain uses the experiences of Huck and Jim in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to warn future generations of the consequences of mans inhumanity to man. ...

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