Huckleberry Finn or Huckleberry Finished?

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Despite these critiques, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should indeed remain a required reading for high school level American literature courses.

The novel provides students with a perspective on the major historical issue of racism in a refreshing way in comparison to fact-based history books. The story takes place in a time of slavery, when blacks were considered inferior to whites, sometimes to the point of being considered less than fully human. Twain includes the term for African Americans most prominently used during the nineteenth century, "nigger", many times throughout the book. Including this term in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the polemic that those opposed to the book present as justification for expelling the book from school curriculum. One of these critics, Beatrice Clark, argues the unacceptable use of the term by saying, "It carries with it the blood of our ancestors. They were called this word while they were lynched; they were called this word while they ...

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