Should Huckleberry Finn Be Taught In Schools

Towards the end, Huck is the boy who helped a slave get his freedom and his rights, If there were to be another boy in Huck’s place, he would’ve loved having a slave do all his work for him. Huck on the other hand is very uncomfortable having a slave do his work for him, because he is not used to it and rather do everything himself. Although Huck hold on to the aspect of racism, he still has more respect for blacks than others at the time being. Huck’s has been raised in a place and time, where slavery and difference between men was normal. In the beginning of the novel, Huck didn’t respect black people and didn’t care about them either.

Nurzhan gets fed up with Ossie and starts to fight him. Nurzhan’s father has to go to the principal’s office along with his sister Maya to translate since their father isn’t able to understand English. Maya translates the principal’s words incorrectly, because she feels empathetic towards Nurzhan. Maya felt empathetic towards Nurzhan, because she knew how hard it was to learn a new language. She also believed that Nurzhan did the right thing, by standing up for himself.

Writers like Olaudah Equiano and Frederick Douglass were different from other slaves in the sense that they were educated and used it as a tool to talk about the horrors of slavery. These writers approached their predominantly white readership by narrating their experiences as slaves and how they were negatively impacted by it. For example, Frederick Douglass never knew his mother nor his presumably white father. And because children had to follow the condition of the mother, he was meant to be a slave for life. In his writing, he also described how initially his mistress was teaching him how to read and write, however she stopped after his master told her not to.

Today, however, many believe Stowe 's attempts to expose the horrors of slavery ended up romanticizing this horrible occurrence and was seemingly racist through the use of many racial slurs. Others argue that it started the advancement of abolishing slavery and was a turning point in history . Uncle Tom 's Cabin became so controversial that schools started to ban it because of the tension of the Civil War in the 18th century, but those times have passed and currently, students are taught about the period of slavery. While school should not ban Uncle Tom 's Cabin, the merits of teaching it are very low due to its historical inaccuracies. One of the historical inaccuracies was that character Uncle Tom was portrayed in a way that seemed to be too unrealistic.

Many people argue that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain are offensive. This book takes you back during 1835-1845 when slavery was still active. While some people believe it brings history to our time others believe it is wrong and disrespectful. I however think that Huckleberry Finn is a great book with good intentions, with a splash of hard history. This book is mature, which can be the reason why so many people decline his work.

Twain 's novel is a realistic representation of the cruelty of slavery and racism at the time. Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in the late 1870s and early 1880s to reflect upon a time before the Civil War when slavery was conspicuous to someone looking from the outside in. However, those whom were involved in this society were unable to decipher the injustices at the time. Huckleberry was an exception in a few ways because he gets to know a slave, Jim, and befriends him. When he befriends Jim, he begins to see Jim differently than the community.

“Africans in America” part IV “Judgment Day” is a PBS documentary that uses quotes, journal entries and photographs along with commentary from historians to discuss slavery in America. This documentary does a good job of relaying the anger and pain that slavery brought to America. “White people want slaves, they want us for slaves, but they will rue the day they were born.” This quote from David Walker helps set the mood and the emotions festering in the black people of America. The use of different mediums within the documentary gave it real emotion and depth. The pictures and paintings used help expand the viewers feelings.

Father Flynn works very hard to defend himself when he was getting accused. Sister Aloysius and Sister James called Father Flynn for a meeting about the winter pageant, but they have an underlying cause. Sister Aloysius brings up the suspicions she has about his relationship with Donald Muller. Father Flynn gets very offended and defensive of his actions to the sisters. He goes on about how he is different when it comes to discipline compared to the iron fist of Sister Aloysius.

Since Huck was young the idea that slaves were beneath him had been implemented and he believed it because society upheld this idea. However, as he began to spend time with Jim and learned about his family and the hardships which he faced. Huck begins to see that Jim is no different than any white man is. Even though Huck still doesn’t understand that enslaving a person is wrong he does come to realize that Jim is no different than he is. Huck and Jim become very close while on their journey to find freedom.

A deep wound could never be easily healed as many colored refer racism too. Racism is a terrible action that many Americans eventually ended up doing in order to make their slaves do everything which involves their work. Now in modern day slaves really doesn't exist anymore but a new type of racism has started to build up by the people that thought racism was good in the first place.I believe the issue of injustice in the form of racism does still exists in modern day. This issue does still exist of unequal jobs, justice for colored people and homeownership. Although some people might say racism doesn't exist anymore due to less or abolished segregation within the schools.

While passing this information, their humanity is ignored as their humanity was denied in the past. However, when the huge contributions of the African Americans during, before, and after their enslavement are acclaimed, then their humanity is un-denied, and their lives start to matter in the society. The start of initiatives introducing the learning of black history in schools allows the restoration of the humanity of African Americans. It opens up the society to the ideology that society can only learn to appreciate the African American members of the society by learning about their history. This revelation should also allow children to grow appreciating African Americans, not just from their color but from their historical path that has led them to strive to be crucial members of the society.

History is important to students everywhere, and Huckleberry Finn is most definitely an example of history. Many people believe that the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ruins the minds of students and that they would “go astray” because of the language, including the “n” word; what many people do not realize is that Twain was using the language that people from that day used.

This is outrageously ironic on a number of levels. First, just the concept that the Grangerfords would be at war with a family that is so similar to them that they go to the same church. The irony in the two families being so warlike that they bring their weapons into their place of worship. Lastly, how out of all possible topics, the sermon was about brotherly love in this particular situation nonetheless. Not to mention that even after reflecting on what they heard in church the families continue to engage in a battle later that day.

Going to college is a big step and can be stressful at times when trying to figure everything out. It can be even more stressful for an African- American student. America 's history with slavery has caused problems even in today’s society in numerous situations. It was the cause for the segregation of black and white students at universities in the late the mid 1900s. After the Brown vs Board of Education case, schools began to allow the attendance of both black and white students.