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2007-12-06 04:16:37 · 12 answers · asked by Donald D 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
No book should ever be banned for any reason.
2007-12-06 06:22:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe "significance" should be required to avoid banning. However, this book does have huge significance. It ranks among the greatest American novels ever written.
I suspect that people proposing it be banned are offended by one word, a racial epithet now considered nearly intolerable (and with good reason). I put up with that word (although I don't say it or repeat quotes containing it) in other sources, where it appears mostly because it either was natural for the author or would be natural for a character to use it, or sometimes just as a cheap device to encourage the reader to dislike the speaker.
Mark Twain, however, is doing more: he is attempting to show the thinking behind people's use of that word, and their corrupt morality. Huck's crisis of conscience, in which he decides that he will rebel against the moral principles he has been taught and accept damnation as a consequence, is actually a powerful condemnation of that system of morality. Huck is fighting against a system of thought that taught him not just to use that word, but to follow a topsy-turvy moral code.
Although many of the particular issues are behind us now (except for that word), new and similar questions arise. This book, more than most, supports its readers' development of the courage to challenge corrupt moral codes.
This book should not be presented, without a proper introduction, to people too young or clueless to recognize that it is not promoting such language. But if more adults read and understood it, the world would be far better for it.
2007-12-06 05:41:18 · answer #2 · answered by Samwise 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If they start in on Huckleberry Finn, I give up. It's all over. What could someone possibly have against that book? Back then, that's the way things were.
I swear, I see a history repeat here. What will banning books lead to - again???
2007-12-06 04:51:52 · answer #3 · answered by lilith663 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is a classic written during a time when slavery and prejudice were acceptable. It shows that even during such thinking, friendship can occur.
I believe no book should be banned. Some may not be appropriate for certain ages but we cannot allow them to be banned. We cannot allow someone to decide no one can read this book or that book just because of a word or an idea they do not approve of.
2007-12-06 04:28:10 · answer #4 · answered by migrainegirl1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
these book banning diltants need to stop being such busy bodies and leave literature alone. of course huck finn is a significant piece of literature but of course it should not be banned what kind of silliness is that?
2007-12-06 04:36:03 · answer #5 · answered by cool breeze 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Definately, it's a fantastic piece of literature. Although I can see it from the other point of view: that it could be offensive, I don't think that it should be banned, there are so many books that are very offensive to all different people which have not been banned.
2007-12-06 04:27:06 · answer #6 · answered by Unresolved to be Resolved 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The reason it is usually banned is because of language, particularly a derogatory word used for African Americans.
Something important to keep in mind is that Twain wasn't using this language to be edgy or push boundaries. This is a realistic depiction of the language used at the time he was writing.
Instead of banning the book, it should be used as a springboard for discussion - at a developmentally appropriate reading level, of course - about racism in America during Twain's era and at the present time.
2007-12-06 04:24:57 · answer #7 · answered by truefirstedition 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Definitely - - the more important question is... Should it still be taught as required American literature throughout the country? I think so, but I think it is important to have a great discussion about how works are products of their time periods, and how we can appreciate the quality aspects of a work AND judge the antiquated opinions. Jane Smiley wrote a great article on this question...
2007-12-06 04:28:21 · answer #8 · answered by kcgalles 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
seems such as you have have been given a initiate already, and you have been appearing some good questioning. Twain's very own father owned slaves, so Twain knew approximately slavery firsthand. He additionally gadgets the story of the unconventional approximately 30 to 40 years previous to the time he wrote it -- till now slavery replaced into formally outlawed. Describing something isn't comparable to approving of it. What concerns is the tone of Twain's tale, and that's the place most of the communicate seems to come again from. Does Twain make Huck right into a mouthpiece for slavery, or a professional-slavery recommend? no longer fairly. Huck usually seems to take issues as he shows them. Huck himself is a sufferer of an alcoholic and abusive father, yet no person accuses Twain of approving of alcohol abuse or new child abuse. apparently, whilst the e book first got here out, no person commented on its racism. What they did no longer like replaced into its sort, which they found "low" and "undemanding" and vulgar. They objected to Huck's language and morals, yet to no longer his or Twain's racism. That got here later, after human beings got here to work out that racism replaced into evil.
2016-11-13 20:56:01 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ban Huckleberry Finn? What have you been smoking?
2007-12-10 11:01:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. No book should be banned, but especially Huck Finn. It's one of the backbones of American literature.
2007-12-06 04:20:09 · answer #11 · answered by Laceyd5 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋