Part 1 of Essay
I don’t know anything that mars literature so much as too much truth- Mark Twain An honest and realistic view of southern life was what Mark Twain had in mind when writing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Satiric as this view may have been, it was by no means prejudiced (against blacks). By reading his book and resea ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... Finn suffers yet another attack. It has been called racist trash, derogatory for its use of the word nigger and its stereotypical portrayal of blacks. Helen Steele, a member of 100 Black United claimed, “Anything that's going to harm any kid - white, black, Hispanic, anything - needs to be removed from required reading… We try to teach them every day not to be racists”(Simmons 1). This means then, that books that discuss racism to its fullest (fullest including the language of the period) are inapprop ....