Huckleberry Finn: Controversy Paper
Beginning of paper
Huckleberry Finn sets each reader back in a time when we as humans where
inhuman. All the faults of the world was just beginning to show through and
some of the right was being shifted to the side. Just as in Huck Finn, we are
reminded of the race relations that we all still face. Mark Twain do ....
Middle of paper
.... it to steer us to
the wrong's of the world today.
Shelly Fishkin suggests Mark Twain has "obscured" the African American
roots when writing Huck Finn. Jim, as suggested by Fishkin, has been plagued
with a dialect that should not be represented by the African American race
during that time. The question is raised by Fishkin as to if Huck Finn was
black? This in turn would take away from the whole basic outcome of the moral
lesson that we are all so desperately wanting to hear about.
I foun ....
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Word count: 328
Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
