Should Huckleberry Finn Be Taught In Public Schools

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first introduced to the public in 1884 by Mark Twain. After going through hell trying to write the book, and its rocky release and low sales showed how controversial the book was even in his time. I believe Huck Finn should not be taught in public schools because the language used is offensive, is hard for for students to understand , and the book has been controversial since its beginning.

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A High school in Philadelphia banned the book Huckleberry Finn from its curriculum due to its use of the N-word making students uncomfortable, and “the community costs of reading this book in 11th grade outweigh the literary benefits”. The N- word is used over 200 times in the book by the author Mark Twain;

Many find it hard because the speaking style causes it to be hard to comprehend what the author is trying to express through the characters words. Another reason people find it hard to understand the text is understanding Jim’s simple mind. Jim is uneducated so it is very hard to convey what he is trying to say. One of the best examples of this is when the two were traveling in the canoe down the river and they spot a frame house floating in the river. They paddled over to it and entered noticing furniture thrown across the house, and a lifeless body laying on the ground where Jim says "It 's a dead man. Yes, indeedy; naked, too. He 's ben shot in de back. I reck 'n he 's ben dead two er three days. Come in, Huck, but doan ' look at his face-it 's too gashly" (Twain 50). If this book would have been easy to read you wouldn 't have to really think about why Jim didn’t want Huck to see the dead body considering throughout the book Huck has seen a few of them. Jims simple dialect causes the reader to think Jim just doesn’t want huck to see a dead body, meanwhile if the reader would look more in depth they would see that the dead body is actually Huck 's father. Also Jim 's simple language causes the reader to think of Jim as a stereotypical uneducated Slave, who has no humanity because he hasn 't been taught it. This is quite the opposite because Jim is protecting Huck from a traumatic experience. In an article by Kent Rasmussen he says, "Modern readers may have trouble understanding some of Huckleberry Finn 's vernacular