THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, also known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, uses several major themes. The book is primarily about racism. Some of the other topics are freedom, bondage, religion, and society versus the individual(Grant 2758). Twain also uses a variety of colorful vernacular dialects. The book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been criticized from the time of its publication to today. "Mark Twain has been seriously accused by some readers of being a racist writer,"(Salwen 1). Twain uses the "N" word over two hundred times in this novel. To sundry black readers Twain's writings are offensive and called trash. Mark Twain implies within the book that black people are not as smart or intelligent as white people are. Most black readers believe this book should not be read in any school under the college level. It has been removed off the reading list for numerous elementary schools. Most of the teachers requesting this book to still be taught are white. Their argument for this novel to stay in the schools is that it shows how society has bettered itself. These teachers say "if you teacher slavery, you have to use the lan
Both Huck and Jim feel free when they are on the raft together. Huck battles with his "conscience over whether or not to turn Jim in as a runaway slave"(Twain 92). If Mark Twain would had used Standard English an abundant amount of his meaning would not have gotten across, and some of the humor would also been lost. Some readers are unable to distinguish each of these dialects, and believe Twain is making all of the characters talk alike. Some parts of the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that have been called racist are when Aunt Sally and Huck are talking about the accident on the steamboat. During each scene on the raft Twain makes you feel like you are floating along the river with Jim and Huck. Huckleberry Finn begins to look at Jim like the father he never had, and Jim begins to look at Huck as his best friend. Huck did not see an advantage so he decided he would not try for it. But if anyone really examines the work of this book closely you can plainly see it was one of the finest books ever put on paper! Bibliography Works Cited PageBloom, Harold. Some readers are sometimes offended by Mark Twain's writing about religion.
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