Is Huck Finn Good Or Bad

The Adventures of HuckleBerry Finn by Mark Twain is one of the most controversial and iconic books in American history.There has been a constant conversation about whether the novel is a good or bad novel since it’s publication in 1884. Huck Finn is a great piece of literature and deserves the praise of being called a central Document of American culture. Yes, like all great things it does have it’s downfalls, for example the ending was very disappointing to many people because it stops abruptly but maybe that's because Twain had a deeper meaning to it. The novel also touches upon the ideas of racism but doesn't make racism the complete focus of the novel this is interesting because it is praised for being a book about slavery. Another piece

Some people thought it was a complete let down and other people were just disappointed by the fact Jim had been free the whole time. Critics have said that the journey has become completely useless now that Jim has been free the whole time. But what most people don't know is that Mark Twain was purposeful with his writings. As said in the Mark Twain; A Life by Ron Powers many people would try want to work and edited Twain's writing but he would pass it up because they didn't have his vision “ Many novelist would be willing to ransom their agents for a passage of that caliber, but Twain wasn't satisfied. ( Powers 478)” Twain was a very particular man and he spent years working on this novel and he knew exactly how he wanted the ending. In the biography Powers talked about how Twain would write off and on never writing a novel straight through. He wanted everything to be the way because he had a purpose for it. Leo Marx's a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology said “The unhappy truth about the ending of Huckleberry Finn is that the author, having revealed the tawdry nature of the culture of the great valley, yielded to its essential complacency.” (LM 357) This makes complete sense and makes the novel even better because it makes one think and makes one wonder about human nature and if it is truly like how Twain portrayed it in the novel gives it another level of depth that the novel would have lacked completely if he didn't include this incredibly ironic ending. The ending is such an essential piece of any novel and how Twain chose to do his ending gives his book a quality that makes it a central document of American