Huckleberry Finn
Essay by 24 • June 15, 2011 • 697 Words (3 Pages) • 1,025 Views
Mark Twains The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn was created to open the eyes of society to the real world. To show people the crule and sinister behaveors exsisting around us, and try to eduacte its readers them. The problem with this is many people arent open to new ideas, its their way or no way at all and this is where the controversy begins.
Mark Twain wrote The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn to bring the racial issuses of our nation to the eyes of the public. Many argue that these intentions were false, that he was simply a rasict with no regard to the integrity of the black comunity. However Twain was no rasisct and anyone who knew him would say the same, Just by taking a look at his childhood you could figure Twain's stance on racism. Twain's childhood consisted of sepending a tremendous amount of time on his uncle's plantion where he devloped a great deal of respect towards the black comunity. Twain's experiance on his uncle's farm exposed him to a diffrent view than most on slavery all of which greatly influenced the writing of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn . It's hard to beleave that a man with such an anti-slavery view on life, a man with such high respect towards blacks who decided to pay for all of a Black college student's tution could write a so called rasicst book.
Many supporting the ban of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn say readers are too young to comprehend the messages within the book. It's true that The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn is a challenging book but isnt it the goal of the school to challenge stutdents to become smarter, aware, and sucsessfull.The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn introduces stutdents to advanced material opening their eyes to the world around them. If students can't understand The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn its because they're not being properly taught. The reading of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn shouldnt soly rest in th students but in the teacher as well. Ater reading chapters there should be a disscussion in class so that stutdents understand what they have read and any questions about the reading may be answerd. Without being properly taught it would seem to many that The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn has no moral values, only degrading words and rasict values. It is the belief of the Three Village School District that "Every student can learn more when he/she experiences lessons that are intellectually
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