Claim: Censorship of Mark Twain's American classic, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Fin, is not the answer.
-This is a novel that young children should not read due to its content, but as one gets older he/she will be able to read it in a more sophisticated light and analyze it in a proper way.
-Literature is a work of art, and shouldn't change that which is beautiful.
-Wouldn't change Leonardo Divinci's paintings, why would Mark Twain's masterpiece be any different.
-Young children should not be reading this until they have an understanding, appreciation, and respect for the novel's content.
-The language presents the reality of that time period, should not hide that which is true. It is like lying about what really happened during the holocaust. By not presenting the reality of the language used back in that era with people of color, it is like saying that the Nazis during the WWII were not that cruel to the Jewish people.
-Huck Fin is an advanced text, how many children are reading Mark Twain?
-Author states, "But Twain books are too important as literary works, to be shelved, which is what's happening." The author is not addressing the full audience, which includes adults.
-"The problem with keeping the text of Huck Fin and Tom Sawyer intact in schools, instead of banning the book-because that creates an outrage of its own-are simply not assigning it to students anymore. And that's a shame." Dont agree with this, because I think it is a good thing to not assign this book to younger children because they would not be able to appreciate this great work. If we have children read it when they are younger with or without the N-word, it would be a waste of time. The best part in this book is that Twain is able to take the reader on a journey back in time and see the reality of the world. It is through this experience that the novel has survived to be considered an American classic, and if you take that away then it would just be another book lost in history. And that would be a shame.
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