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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• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 910
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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: High School

The theme of race played a huge part in the novel Huckleberry Finn. ... Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in a time era where the South was still racist and the effects of slavery were normal. ... In Huckleberry Finn what seems like "good " white people such as Miss Watson and Sally Phelps are people who have slaves and don't care about the cruelty of slavery and separating him from his family. In Huckleberry Finn, Jim, a black slave runs away from his owner Miss Watson. ... Twain is only showing what a real slave was like back in that time period. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

" "Yes,"" replies Huckleberry. ... Although modern society largely scorns racism, racism still continues, making books like "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," a story about slavery and racism, still relevant to today. ... In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by reversing the black-white paradigm, Huck ultimately learns of the invalidity of the ideology behind slavery and racism that has governed his beliefs about whites and blacks his entire life. ... Huck Finn, therefore, serves as a spectator, judging them based on realistic observations. ... But Huck's tone of relinquishment, r...

• Word Count: 1798
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Furthermore, Mark Twain is one of the key components historically that make up American literature by using an outsider in Huckleberry Finn to define race in slavery. ... Twain uses a small boy to show what the white human race is like without the corruption of society and slavery. ... Twain defines his race by showing what he is not. He does not believe in slavery, nor does he believe that it is morally right. ... Huck Finn is not pro slavery but rather against the idea of slavery once taken out of the southern culture. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

His first popular book was "Innocents Abroad- (1869), followed by "Tom Sawyer- and "Huckleberry Finn- (1876). ... One of his last published works was "What is Man- in 1906. ... However, the setting of the novel was in 1830, a period called "Ante Bellum-, which was the time before Civil War and the time of slavery. ... Pettit gives a good overview on Mark Twain's life and his views on slavery. ... Pettit says that "his mother was distressed by the mistreatment of slaves - but that "she never spoke out against slavery as a social institution- (20). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Still, a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest... In Hannibal, Missouri (as well as the rest of America) the romanticism of slavery and genteel white society was a charade that was best left a charade so that the civilization could operate without a catastrophic rending of the existing social fabric. ... Like so Many of Twain's protagonists, both black and white, including Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Jim, Pap, The Boss, Pudd'nhead, Tom Driscoll, Chambers and Roxy, Sam Clemens was infected with a form of racism that has been with man since the beginning of time, or sin...

• Word Count: 3141
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate