#8217; wherein Huck wrestles with his conscience about whether to turn Jim in as a runaway slave. Huck’s most attractive quality--one worth call to the attention of schoolchildren--is that for an inveterate and accomplished liar, he has a powerful need to find the truth, and to act on it. (23)Mark Twain even warns the reader that this book isn’t just a story about a young boy goofing off. He says In his famous “Notice” Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot, will be shot.(Morrow 23)Morrow also feels that [Huck Finn] The supposedly racially insensitive tale, with its repeated use of the word “nigger” is the most devastating portrait of American white trash and white-trash racism that has ever been written Huck Finn savages racism as thoroughly as any document in American History.(25) These are all reasons supporting the fact that Huckleberry Finn is not a racist work. This novel is needed to be taught in public high schools, to black and white students respectively. There is a lesson to be learned in the book. Winston Churchill put it best when he pointed out that “those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.” (Class notes) We must learn from our mistakes about slavery and the wrong terminology for people, or we are destined to find ourselves in a perpetual circle, without any progress. Huckleberry Finn must be taught in school.Huckleberry Finn has been accused of being an anti-American book. It is not, for many reasons. Ernest Hemingway once proclaimed that [Huckleberry Finn] the source from which modern American vernacular into literature, and an enormous number of later American writers, black and white, have been in his debt.(Morrow 22)Augustus Kolich of Pennsylvania University feels that “Huck Finn is the most common American r...
