Twainer

I believe that HuckFinn is a decent novel that has its place in history due to its own ambiguity. tHE VERY FACT THe THE NOVEL CAN BE DEBATED AS IT IS IS WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT. I believe that this book should be taught in upper class men high school classes. It should be so not because of the novel itself, but the significance of the conversation that can derive from it. To tell you the truth, I do not believe that this novel was brutal enough in showing the horrors of slavery or in its depiction of rural life in the south. Therefore, I think that other books should be taught before, or along with HuckFinn, in order for students to better understand this sad time in out nations history. Children need to be exposed to these atrocities. No one should ever forget or try to ignore what happened then. To do so would only lend itself to a future of repeating the pass, instead of learning from it. I will use the passages that depict Huck's inner moral struggle and what he thinks is the "right" thing to do. I will also use the ending, and show how this dry satire screams out to be hated, on purpose. Twain's writings for the San Francisco Chronicle are incredible similar to to the end of HuckFinn. He wants to sicken you. No book that involves slavery shouldn't. But as I said before, students should read Fredrick Douglas or some other authors, preferably perhaps a slave writer, that more accurately and more upsettingly describe the way things were for slaves back in the eighteenth to nineteenth century America. Is the book racist? Yes. Is that what is in important? No. For the time this book was written this novel was incredibly not racist. When this book was written, African Americans were not considered human by many people in our country. We must always remember and learn from the past, as to never even remotely repeat it again.