Why Should Huckleberry Finn Not Be Banned In Schools

“There are traits and obstacles, some of them funny, some harrowing, but none more important than the moral dilemma Huck faces about Jim’s status as a slave” (Ruta 3). The author Domenica Ruta has a very strong opinion about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, she feels it is important and should be used in schools. She also used strong persuasive words to say this book should not be banned in schools. Demonica Ruta persuades her audience by the use of strong words and her ability to use these words to stress to the readers that this book is important to every child's education.
To begin Demonica Ruta has a strong Way to persuade using the words that she right. Ruta is exceptionally good at using her words to get her point across. She makes sentences that she knows will have an effect on her readers. In her article On Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn she states “ While Huck Finn is a novel of artistic merit first, it is also a primary source text in Antebellum American history, one that enjoins

students in a critical intellectual exercise- Can you, the reader, inhabit the mind of a person from another place and time?” (Ruta 2) Demonica Ruta uses her words to prove that Huck Finn is an important piece of history and she also says that when you read it, it is like you are in the time period. She uses these two things to get it through to the reader that Huck Finn is important and to take it away from the kids would be a terrible thing to do. Ruta uses her words as a tool to help the audience see that not everything about Huck Finn is bad and it needs to be taught in schools.
Second, Ruta uses Education as a platform for her arguments.

By using education she is essentially trying to get into the heads of parents this will work because parents always want what is best for their children. If Huck Finn is really so important to include in the education of their children then that is where it will stay because all parents want their children to be the best they can be and if Huck Finn makes the children better than the parents will want to keep this book in schools. To prove this she Ruta says “Denying our children an opportunity to discuss these transformations and reversal is insulting to their intelligence” (Ruta 3). Through this, Ruta is saying that without Huck Finn the children would be missing an important part of education and without it, it’s an insult to what the children are capable of understanding. By saying this she is trying to convince parents that allowing Huck Finn to be taught in schools would be the best thing for the

kids.
To conclude, Ruta easily persuades readers through the words she uses and the fact that she stressed Huck Finn is needed in the education of young people. Although some people may disagree because of the books repeated use of the N-word, Ruta believes it is important for the kids to read this book in schools because it is an important piece of Antebellum history. If Huck Finn is really such an important book, then why is it fourteenth on the list of banned books. It should be in the classroom educating the minds of young people in America.