Huckleberry Finn 6
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Racism and Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn
Since the very first printing of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the book has always been a very controversial one, to say the least. Many people misunderstand Mark Twain’s intentions when he wrote this book. He just wanted to tell a story, ....
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.... the dialect he used. During the period of time when this book was written, the “n-word” was part of their culture, where as the words “African American” and “black” are used today in our culture. If Mark Twain avoided the many racial slurs used during the late eighteen hundreds, the book would have lost some of the intellectual value which it possesses, not to mention the historical value of the era. Besides, if Mark Twain used alternate words, he would ....
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Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
