Should Huck Finn be Banned?

Should Huck Finn be banned, and do you believe that it's a racist book.

I'm going to tell you guys straight up, that I have a homework assignment on it, but this isn't so I can bum off of you guys, but I'd like to hear your views on it. I have to write a paper. Once I'm done, I will post it here for you. If I like some of your comments/ideas I might ask for permission to use it in my paper.

Should Huck Finn be banned, and do you believe that it's a racist book. I'm going to tell you guys straight up, that I have a homework assignment on it, but this isn't so I can bum off of you guys, but I'd like to hear your views on it. I have to write a paper. Once I'm done, I will post it here for you. If I like some of your comments/ideas I might ask for permission to use it in my paper.

No... it's written to be satirical. Mark Twain himself wasn't racist, he was poking fun at the backwards/racist shitttown he originated from.

Consider that when it was written, Twain was criticized for being a "nigger lover" and depicting a white/black friendly relationship as equals.

100 years later, it's racist.

It's just what it is, a fairly accurate depiction of the past mentality and a classic American book.

Quick link, this says what I was going to say, but better:

http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Class/pol325/Huck.htm

"The people whom Huck and Jim encounter on the Mississippi" -- Russell Baker wrote in the New York Times in 1982 -- "are drunkards, murderers, bullies, swindlers, lynchers, thieves, liars, frauds, child abusers, numskulls, hypocrites, windbags and traders in human flesh. All are white. The one man of honor in this phantasmagoria is 'Nigger Jim,' as Twain called him to emphasize the irony of a society in which the only true gentleman was held beneath contempt."

Quick link, this says what I was going to say, but better: http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Class/pol325/Huck.htm

That is an excellent article. I will probably end up using that. Thanks.

Why did you divorce your wife?


'Cause she was a nagger lover!!!

I think it should be banned...its a horrible story and banning it will make it easier for kids in high schoo to get thru english class

Actually, it's hilarious..

Eh..? I passed that class very easily. H-K = STOOPIDZ?

The book was fairly entertaining. I found "To Kill A Mocking Bird" and "Dante's Inferno" far more interesting, but the book ain't bad.

This book is the last thing to make me racist. Half my family hates Arabs, and my brother says Martin Luther King Jr. was a collector of child pornography and that he was an Anti-semite. Maybe it's true.. How the hell would I know?

So, as I explained, that book ain't half as bad as the stuff my family says.

Should Huck Finn be banned, and do you believe that it's a racist book. I'm going to tell you guys straight up, that I have a homework assignment on it, but this isn't so I can bum off of you guys, but I'd like to hear your views on it. I have to write a paper. Once I'm done, I will post it here for you. If I like some of your comments/ideas I might ask for permission to use it in my paper.

im black and that book makes me feel hurt when we read it in class.. Imagine being the only different race in that class and the topic their talking about racism towards your race… now all eyes are on you. You feel hurt and the vocabulary they are using is painful. So to answer your question yes I think the book should be band

Racism is a painful topic, but it's something that needs to be discussed, regardless. Unfortunately, sometimes you have to discuss things that are really tough in order to have progress.

Huck Finn was meant to be satirical of racism, if anything.

WTF. I don't remember posting in this thread @_@.

Do you even remember anything past yesterday?

im black and that book makes me feel hurt when we read it in class.. Imagine being the only different race in that class and the topic their talking about racism towards your race… now all eyes are on you. You feel hurt and the vocabulary they are using is painful. So to answer your question yes I think the book should be band

It's satirical towards racism and towards slavery. Mark Twain hated both and was doing his best to ridicule it and the way people were ignorant.

I never read the book, only watched the movie.. but don't remember it very well since it was a long time ago.

But it didn't seem to show racism to me..

No....it should not be banned, just..no.

Obviously responding to an old thread here, but I'll put in my two cents anyway. The librarian in me says "No" (quite emphatically). The rest of me agrees wholeheartedly with the librarian.

There was an excellent site exhibiting a selection of banned books. Can't remember where or how I found it. I'll go searching later.