Morality In Mark Twains Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Known as Huck Finn, it does not cover the era of slavery with justice because it refuses to accurately represent black individuals. Instead, it further enforces stereotypes. Jim, the black slave who is on the run with the protagonist, Huckleberry or Huck, is a static and stock character who readers can easily sympathize with. On the other hand, readers easily identify and relate to Huck Finn because he shows emotional maturity and depth in character.
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
A novel that modern students read on slavery should be focused on a black character and not the recurring white one. Garcia English Dept.
Education is giving students the tools to reach a higher state of learning. Huck Finn is the tool that schools use to help students decide its importance.
Themes of Morality and Racism in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Schools, as an institution, have no right to reclaim it or allow Moraltiy to decide the importance of the word by themselves. That right belongs to the victims and the countless still affected by offensive uses of the word. At some schools, students are allowed to read alternatives if they are uncomfortable with use of the n-word in Huck Finn, but the majority of the class will choose to read Huck Finn. Why does a student have to be isolated from the rest of the class for feeling uncomfortable with a historically degrading slur? Why does our curriculum choose to single out a particular group of students to be pushed out of their comfort zones?
nomadic, poetic, and sometimes ascetic
Black students have to quietly accept the characterizations of their people as it is only a historical novel and not in modern context. Modern racial slurs would never be allowed in the curriculum, but why is the n-word included, which is arguably the most loaded and vicious slur in our history? However, you have to account for the explicit and personal stories of trauma that these authors will write about and how school-friendly they are.
We carry the popularity of the novel, no matter how shallow the reason of popularity may be, and establish them as classics. A century-old novel with over occurrences of a racial slurs, outdated satire and problematic representation is not a novel we should be teaching without criticizing.
Alix English Dept. Just like Twain was a member of that culture that had the problem. These stories need to be made relevant to modern times, which entail teaching from an inter-sectional point of view and considering points of gender, class and race.
Although we read these books for pleasure or to learn a lesson or two, it is important that we criticize our classics and learn from their faults.]
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