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

and because of this it happened to be a bad time for African Americans. Since the black people did not have the same rights as whites, and because of this Mark Twain was able to create a book all about the journey of a slave and how tough it would be to escape.
One main reason why this book should not be banned is because it is a very educational book for students and helps students understand what slavery was like for slaves and how hard it would be to escape.

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

time.
The second reason why “Huckleberry Finn” shouldn’t be banned from school is because of it’s great symbolism and helps students read through it in order to understand the story. The symbolism of nature is very interesting in this book because it is what it revolves around as Huck and Jim make their journey along the river and come into conflicts. “Detractors, refusing to accept the good intentions of a text that places the insulting epithet so often in the mouths of characters, black and white, argue that no amount of intended irony or satire can erase the humiliation experienced by black children.” (Kemble’s Construction). This represents that the things that come out of a person’s mouth, whether black or white, shows how whites were able to talk down to the blacks, disrespect them, and treat them like dirt. Symbolism is also good for readers is because things are seen differently and you can see from the different perspectives of a white person or a black person based on what they think of society. The final reason why Huckleberry Finn shouldn’t be banned from schools is because it talks about the quality and defective effects of slavery, and this can teach readers about all the troubles that went on through this time.
The third and final reason why this story shouldn’t be banned from school is because of the quality and defective effects of slavery and the differences of people whether they happen to be black nor white.

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

book.
One reason why this story should be banned from school is because of it’s crucial wording and the cruelty in the words that are used throughout the book. In this story slaves are talked to like they have no rights and white people use very harsh words when they talk and talk to the slaves like they’re peasants. “To dismiss the word's recurrence in the work as an accurate rendition of nineteenth century American linguistic conventions denies what every black person knows: far more than a synonym for slave, "nigger" signifies a concept.” (Huck Finn Controversy). This shows that the use of the word nigger is very demeaning and represents a word of hatred toward slaves and is a very bad word to be used to represent the slaves such as Jim. Bad descriptions that are used to describe slaves in the story are very hurtful and cruel to use in order to describe a different race and judge a slave based on their color and make them feel terrible.
The three main reasons why The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should not be banned from school is because it’s an educational read, it shows great symbolism towards society, and shows both the quality and defectives of society. This is a story that shows the true meaning of what society was like during slavery and how people may have been treated differently compared on the race they were. This is a book that shows a lot about slavery and the different things that had happened when it was this era and how people were treated on their race. In this story it represents a lot toward society and how different it is compared to our society today and the rights that people now have. This story is all about slavery and how hard it may have been for them to escape, but also how they were treated based on their skin and how they were treated.