Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Essay Assignment The use of the “n-word” in Huckleberry Finn has recently been an issue to students and teachers that read this novel in class. The word “nigger” shows up over two hundred times in the book. The publisher, New South Books decided to change the word to “slave”, which has caused much controversy. “Translating” the text has helped teachers and students feel more comfortable with reading the book, but it is argued that changing “nigger” to “slave” takes away the original meaning, and causes the story to become unclear. Although, changing the word to “slave” prevents issues concerning the “n-word” and changes the text so it is less offensive to readers.
She states multiple times that the children within the education system are being cheated every day because they are not being forced to read more difficult books. “Such benefits are denied to the young reader exposed only to books with banal, simple-minded moral equations as well as to the student encouraged to come up with reductive, wrong-headed readings of mulitlayered texts” (Prose 97). The reader can blatantly see that Prose thinks negatively of the high school curriculum that today's students face. It seems clear that Prose does not want to hide her personal view or feelings, so she starts her essay out in a way that we do not have to read between the lines to get a sense of how she feels about what she is writing. She uses more emotional language when she says, "The intense loyalty adults harbor for books first encountered in youth is one probable reason for the otherwise baffling longevity of vintage mediocre novels, books that teachers may themselves have read in adolescence"(Prose
Alexie learned not only how to read but to love reading. He used his passion of reading to remove himself from the stereotype of being unintelligent Indian boy, push himself through the school system, and not to fail in life. His reservation looking at him like a trader. Reading books when he had the time too. *Non-Idians teacher they expect them to be dumb in class but smart outside of class.
Foul and harsh language is used in dialogue and in Conrad’s thoughts in the novel as well. All of these topics and areas of the novel have been targeted as reason for censorship in schools around the country. Many parents feel that the use of ‘bad language’ encourages it. Also, the talk and description of sex encourages, even condones such behavior. Some parents have argued Coffman, 2 that the
Also, it will make students wonder how people could actually believe these things. However, in the book Fahrenheit 451, there are points that will make students question why they should bother learning. In the novel, Fahrenheit 451, there are points in the book where students will obtain the point of view from where they can see how controversial reading can be. They get this point of view from the following quote, “‘Where’s your common sense, none of these books agree with each other…Snap out of it’” (38)! This quote can give readers the thought that rather than books being beneficial to the
Many books not written in historical context contain vulgar language and are still allowed in high school. Books such as To The Wedding, Of Mice and Men, To Kill A Mockingbird, etc. are books that are considered to have vulgar language in them, yet they are still used in schools. It is wrong to ban a book because of the language or because it does not follow certain people’s morals because then you are losing the possible educational value. “The books that help you most are those which make you think the most.” (Theodore Parker).
An example of a lie I personally told was one in 7th grade when my English teacher had assigned me a project that required me to read a book and make a poster with information on the book. I turned the poster into my teacher, but the poster I made was complete bullshit. I made up a book and did the poster on that, but the teacher had looked up the book and realized I lied about my project. If Stephanie Ericsson was to associate my lie with a name she stated in the essay it would most likely be an omission. Ericsson defines omission as “Telling most of the truth minus one or two key facts whose absence changes the story completely” (Ericsson 2), since I told my teacher I finished the project, but not that I didn’t do it correctly nor that I didn’t read a book.
Prejudice is portrayed in many forms in the novel. Characters in the book suffer discrimination due to race, age, social status and sex. This racism appears to be a normal thing to the people of Maycomb. In the novel, Scout runs into trouble with both a classmate and a cousin when the two boys taunt her about her father, whom they call a "nigger love". Atticus explains to Scout that he will be defending a black man named Tom Robinson.
Writers Week is a event that allows people to say things they would not normally say in a school environment, or share thoughts they wouldn't share with people, whether it be the f-bombs 'Mutts' dropped or the swears that student presenters uttered while reading their speeches,their art brought some crudeness into our sugar coated school environment. And I think that's why we love Writers Week so
Although this novel should be taught to high school students there are people that oppose teaching the book because of its crudeness and inappropriateness. Students’ parents often object to their child reading this book but the parents and students need to realize that this book is reality. During the time period that this book was written nearly every white person owned slaves. Luckily, however, our society today has grown away from slavery and this book enforces the history of our country and the history of slavery and racism. Twain even shows Huck’s sensitive side toward African Americans when Huck says, “I wouldn’t done