Controversy: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was highly controversial although not immediately after it was written. It was published in 1884 and caused little controversy until in 1955, when a televised version of the book used a white man to play Jim, Huck’s slave. They also eliminated any mention of slavery from the show, proving that the book was not well received. Among numerous other complaints, in 2009 a Washington high school teacher requested for the removal of the novel from their school curriculum, mainly because of the use of the word ‘nigger’. So many protests were received that an alternate book was released, called The Hipster Huckleberry Finn which replaced the word nigger with hipster. This book was greatly commended for its reduction…show more content…
One member of the committee says that, while he does not wish to call it immoral, he thinks it contains but little humor, and that of a very coarse type. He regards it as the veriest trash. The library and the other members of the committee entertain similar views, characterizing it as rough, coarse, and inelegant, dealing with a series of experiences not elevating, the whole book being more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people. school administrator of Virginia in 1982 calling the novel the "most grotesque example of racism I’ve ever seen in my life".[23] According to the American Library Association, Huckleberry Finn was the fifth most-frequently-challenged book in the United States during the 1990s.[24] Both texts look at the society they are set in from a different viewpoint and ridicule the way the people are…show more content…
But I soon give up that notion for two things: she'd be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she'd sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn't, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they'd make Jim feel it all the time, and so he'd feel ornery and disgraced. And then think of ME! It would get all around that Huck Finn helped a nigger to get his freedom; and if I was ever to see anybody from that town again I'd be ready to get down and lick his boots for shame. That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide, it ain't no disgrace. That was my fix exactly. The more I studied about this the more my conscience went to grinding me, and the more wicked and low-down and ornery I got to feeling. And at last, when it hit me all of a sudden that here was the plain hand of Providence slapping me in the face and letting me know my wickedness was being watched all the time from up there in heaven, whilst I was stealing a poor old woman's nigger that hadn't ever done me no harm, and now was showing me there's One that's always on the lookout, and ain't a-going to allow no such miserable doings to
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