Why Huckleberry Finn Should Not Be Banned

In the book, “Huckleberry Finn,” by Mark Twain should not be banned in school because it is educational, it has wonderful symbolism about society, and talks about both the good and bad of the slavery era. “Mark Twain is a humorist or nothing. He is well aware of the fact himself, for he prefaces “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” with a brief notice, warning persons in search of a moral, motive or plot that they are liable to be prosecuted, banished or shot.” (Huck Finn Controversy). This quote talks all about how Mark Twain was only a man of humor and was in no need to put the words personal to anyone and instead to make it a good book. This story talks all about the times of slavery and how differently people were treated based on their color

Slavery times in this book show how hard it was for the slaves and how nasty they were treated by all of their owners, other whites, and even white kids. “On the one hand, the conflict manifests itself as a contest between lay readers and so­ called scholarly experts, particularly as it concerns the text.” (Huck Finn Homepage). This shows that conflicts make it interesting for people to read and one main conflict of this book was how people escaped and the struggles that they that they had to go through. How slaves were treated is also very educational because it talks all about how they were talked down to and treated horribly compared to the rights that all the whites had. Another reason why this book shouldn’t be banned from school is because it has great symbolism that represents the society and talks upon what it was scene as and the conflicts that it had came upon during this

The better quality of this story is how all of the slaves were treated by whites and it’s very informational and let’s you know a lot about how cruel slave owners were to their slaves. “There is no denying the rightness of Huck's decision to risk his soul for Jim. But there is no tangible reason to assume that the regard Huck acquires for Jim during his odyssey down the river is generalized to encompass all blacks.” (Illustrating “Slavery”). This is saying that it was hard for a slave to escape and would have to make a great journey in order to do it and because of this, it was the defective effects of slavery for a slave. The quality of slavery is how informational of a book this is for readers because it let’s you know all about slavery, and the defectives of slavery was how they were treated and how hard it was for them to escape. However one reason that this story should be banned from schools is because of the crucial wording and the nasty language that it uses throughout the entire