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Why Is Huckleberry Finn Be Banned

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The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by writer Mark Twain is a very divisive book and the reason for that is because of it controversy with racism. It is banned from lots of school because they believe that it could make a lot of students uncomfortable. Maybe making them uncomfortable is a good thing. High school students can see how it was like back then for the black people and how they were treated. They weren 't treated as humans at all. Children back then had a lot of ignorance just like Finn. They didn’t think it was a bad thing to treat black people so horribly, they thought that it was perfectly normal. This book is about a young boy named Huck who has been taught as a young boy to despise black people without no experience. One day …show more content…

More and more did they grew together during this story. They began to act more like friends then slave owners. They 've already been through a lot at this point. In chapter 11 disguises himself as a girl to get more information about his suppose death. Mrs.Loftus claims that either pops or Jim were the one responsible for Huck’s death. Huck did not like the idea of people having suspicion for Jim. While Mrs.Loftus began talking about Jim, Huck tried to convince that maybe it wasn 't him. “Git up and hump yourself, Jim! There aint a minute to lose. They 're after us!” (p.71) Huck did not need to go back to get Jim, He could have ran away by himself for a better chance of survival, but he didn 't think twice as to help Jim as well. Huck thinks of Jim as Human while Mrs.Loftus thinks of him as more of an animal saying “ They 'll go after him at midnight..he’ll likely be asleep, and they can slip around through the woods and hunt up his camp fire all the better for the dark, if he 's got one.” It sounds like he 's about ready to go hunt for a deer but they 're hunting for a …show more content…

Afterwords, during the last chapters of the book Huck is finally free from the king and the duke until he realized that they sold Jim. He felt remorse.” And then think of ME! It would get all around that Huck Finn helped a nigger to get his freedom; and if I was ever to see anybody from that town again I 'd be ready to get down and lick his boots for shame. That 's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don 't want to take no consequences of it.” (p.236-237) Huck didn’t feel free if Jim wasn 't free as well. He knew what the consequences were if he got caught but he didnt care at all. He was going to do everything he can to set him free which he ended up doing at

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