However, is this really what people think about Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn today? The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is on the list of the top ten censored books. (TIME) Many people think that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a racist novel. It is banned in countless schools because of its racial content. Many people think that Twain is condoning slavery.
By reading the principal’s speech, Richard was saying what the white power wanted him to say and to Richard this would be giving in to the very thing he hated so much. Richard was willing to leave school without a diploma instead of this. White people alienated Richard from his environment because he did not accept the way of life that other black people did. Richard’s relatives never understood Richard and because of this he was alienated from his family and his own people. Shorty is the young black boy who gets beat by the white people and jokes about it.
Any country that conquest another country has to impose it culture by obligating its language, religion, and traditions to fully conquest the other country. To many people from the dependent country, it is hard to learn the language imposed because of the lack of good education and experience. The dominant society may think that because of their anatomy or their race they are not able to do so. In the text “Black Children are Verbally Deprived” by Walt Wolfram, the author explains how the North American society supposes that African American has a different English speech because the segregation and the poor education they have had. Nowadays, Puerto Ricans are having the same problems as the African Americans did before with the North Americans in terms of the use of English.
Harper Lee shows the racist social values that most of the inhabitants of Maycomb County follow are one of the factors that cause Atticus Finch’s defense to fail. In Maycomb, hating black people is a never-ending trend. Even though almost everyone follows it, Atticus does not. He is one of the only characters in the novel that has good social values and does not judge one by his or her skin colour. Although he has a feeling that he is not going to win the case, he still does the right thing by
The Revolutionary War and the Holocaust were both seen as wars of liberation. Not many people took into consideration of how tragic the Holocaust was. The author also argues that the most important facts we as people of the U.S. should look into are the south’s motives for the Civil War. Slavery was a necessity; it was a natural minority for blacks. It was a means of social organization and control; it was technically like a foundation of a Southern white male free society; it was the new government.
And Walker has been accused of reinforcing racial stereotypes in her depiction of male black characters as abusive and violent.”(2) Yet, such as in the story there are controversies over how Walker expresses herself in the book there are purposes for her strong words and intense images. For Instance the story introduced itself with strong words and intense images: “Dear God, He acts like he can’t stand me no more. Say I’m evil an always up to no good. He took my other little baby, a boy this time. But I don’t think he kilt it.
The second way is “Nigga” and that is used by African Americans when talking to their friend. The number one argument of this word is, why is it okay for African Americans to use this word if they are so entirely offended by it? That is the one question that seems to never be answered because what seems to be lack of responsibility in the African American race for refusing to stop using it themselves. In reality there is no positive way in which someone can use this word because in the dictionary it is defined as an insult. However, African Americans have taken a spin on the word and used it in pop culture.
For example, after the post nuclear holocaust, the Waknuk community were “afraid” of the change in the community, so they treated badly anyone who looked different. As a result of the oppression forced upon coloured people stifled their human spirit. This was demonstrated both in the book and historically in America.
Censorship is also ridiculous because most classic novels involve questionable language, or somewhat violent material. If the library removes these books, the patrons under eighteen lose the opportunity to learn valuable lessons from them. A last reason that censorship is unbelievable is patrons over eighteen will most likely want to check out the books that are in question to be removed. If the town council decides to remove them, many patrons will become enraged. Deciding if a library patron under eighteen should be aloud to read a questionable book is the decision of the patron and their parents.
The second text, “Black History Month”, is written by Eric Holder (EH). This text is more negative towards the theme and it states that there still are racial issues, consequently that people do not talk to each other about race. EH thinks that conversations about race will help USA to achieve a future where all people are equally valued. The third text, “The Obsession over Race Continues”, is written by Walter Backstrom (WB).The text is, just like text one, subjective because the reader sees the things from WB’s point of view. It is negative towards the theme and it states that people are obsessed with race.