Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Guide to Online ResourcesBy Jim ZwickAdventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of Mark Twain's most loved, most influential, and most controversial books. It was banned from the Concord Public Library in 1885, the year of its publication, and Huckleberry Finn ranks number five in the American Library Association's list of the most frequently challenged books of the 1990s. But in 1935, Ernest Hemingway wrote that "all modern American literature comes from one …
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…you do this I think you'd find that the novel is more complex than a simple caricature of its black inhabitants and a display of racist lingo... it criticises the society that allows slavery and the concept that Jim should be a slave when he has such an abundance of good qualities. Banning books is no substitute for varied and responsible teaching.. children have to grow up some day... dont isolate us... teach us. Bibliography