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Huck Finn

Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the greatest, most daring novels in the world. Mark Twain's style helps to realistically portray early America. Mark Twain tells the story through the voice of Huck, the very kindhearted main character. Everything that Huck says reflects the racism and black stereotypes typical of the era. This has lead to many conflicts from readers since the novel was first printed. However, the story has inspired some. James W. Tuttleton says in an article he wrote that "Huck Finn is regularly denounced as racist trash" (The San Francisco Chronicle [1885] 6) . Yet, again to oppose that is a quote by a reader, "Anyone who is offended by this book is obviously ignorant of the true purpose of this book (which does not show slavery to be right, I might add) and perhaps should find out a little more about it than what OTHERS have told them." (Soapbox [Shumway.2000] ). The author does use the word ‘nigger' a lot, he says it to......


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