Huckleberry Finn Controversy
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 05:50:45
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 4 pages (1042 words)
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 4 pages (1042 words)
The reading and teaching of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" written by Mark Twain is very controversial. Due to many African American Parents argue that the word nigger appears more than two hundred times making Huck Finn a racist book. Racism is discrimination or prejudice based on race. The parents feel that this racism distracts their children from concentration. The critics of this book know that is racism is a bad thing but that does …
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…South Bay Bureau.17 Oct 1995 Beckett, Jamie. "South Bay School tackles Huck debate." Chronicle South Bay Bureau. 27 Oct 1995 "Life reviews Huck" Life. 26 Feb.1885 Maseda, Marissa. "Huck Gets Sent Down River." Oak Leaf Staff Writer. "Huck and the Concord Library." Concord Library Ban. 29 March 1885. '"'Huckleberry Finn" In Concord." The New York Herald. 18 March 1855 "San Francisco Chronicle Defends Huck." San Francisco Chronicle 29 March 1885 Shepherd, Stephen. " Curriculum needs to recognize, not to ignore, raciasm." Oak Leaf Staff Writer
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