Stories and plays such as Miss Lonelyhearts, "The Death of a Salesman", "A Streetcar Named Desire", The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Day of the Locust. ... In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, Twain uses racism, slavery, and freedom throughout his book. ... The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a lesson, and it teaches its reader not only about freedom and religion, but mostly about race and racism. ... I also think that this novel really explains sort of what it means to be an American by somewhat explaining slavery. Slavery is a part of America...

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• Grade Level: High School

Who are they to tell the public what they can or can't read, observe, listen, watch, etc.? ... Some of the books that have been the most frequently banned in 1990's are: Of Mice and Men, The Catcher in the Rye, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Blubber, A Day No Pigs Would Die, Little Red Riding Hood, James and the Giant Peach, The Grapes of Wrath, Black Beauty, and Lord of the Flies. ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been banned because it contains the word "nigger". ... Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn is so often cited as being racist, when it was written against ...

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The Abolishment of Slavery underwent progress in an atmosphere of wartime. ... This was due to the remaining and overwhelming battle of slavery versus freedom. ... This was the last and final urge to release America from slavery's shackles. ... Nearly two decades after the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the war, Mark Twain began writing his novel Huckleberry Finn, a novel criticized for having racism in the spotlight. In Huckleberry Finn, honorable and honest slave, Jim, is hindered by the insidious racism of the White society in the South. ...

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