Pros And Cons Of Huckleberry Finn

To continue, replacing Mark Twain’s book with another written literature work had a variety of responses to the action. Evaluators that opposed to the idea sought that the students would not be aware of racial issue that are brought up from the past and from the modern time. The removal of the book would be like “shutting the door [for students] on harsh historical realities, [in which can be a] whitewashing them or pretending they do not exist” (Kakutani). Students should be exposed to the reality issues instead of avoiding the issues that is happening around the country. The people who agreed to the option,in replacing, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, brought to the attention that the student should not have the mind of being exposed

to the detrimental events about racial issues. Their view on the United States and the Americans will change in perspective after reading Mark Twain’s book. Twain had the language to contain “the fear [in] complexity of the racial issues in the text [in which can] be too much for schoolchildren to comprehend” (“The Adventures of the Huckleberry Finn. Literary”). Critics are preventing students to be more pure minded instead of facing the truth behind the United States’ history. Without being exposed to The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, the students would not be able to grow up and express their own point of perspective on the world events. Without the exposure of the truth, they would have the lack of knowledge of being able to deal with the racial issue. Students will be deprived on being exposed to classic works of literature by just learning from safety reading literature books. They should have the awareness of the situation in the indictment treatment of African Americans and the painful complexities of the race relations that is still occurring from the past to the modern United States. Students should not be kept in the safe zone but to be exposed to outside issue to have their own point of opinion to the necessary issues.