Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Should Huck Finn be taught a CHS!!

Huck Finn is the craziest book I read so far this yea1 the complications that I found in this book that I want to address is first the language. Secondly, the book shows kids the wrong things to do and last but least it has racial slurs in it. So I advise people to read this book and it should be taught in schools. Plus it’s a lesson learned.

A lot of people get frustrated when they read improper grammar! In the story Huck Finn shows poor grammar in the whole first chapter. For example "But per'aps it we keep them till they're ransomed." so if children See how they write in this book they might think it’s correct, but its not.

This book should be taught in schools. The children are doing all the wrong things and not the right. They are smoking/drinking underage. So this may influence younger children to do these things, but now and day’s children are smarter, and they would do the opposite. There’s a part in the book that indicates violence which says” if anybody done anything to anybody in the band, whichever boy was ordered to kill that person and his family must do it”. I feel as though violence is the answer to everything.

As being an African American we struggle from racism. This story is very racist because Huck Finn uses foul language. For intense Huck Finn uses the word “nigger”. That word indicated what Caucasian people use to call African American people when they wanted them to do something for them. Here’s another example from the book a lady name Mrs. Watson had a black slave name Jim to do what she told him.

In conclusion, I have 3 main key points that I’m focused on, so as language, showing kids the wrong thing to do and racism. People should read this book it’s a lesson learned. I think this story is real difficult to read and understand because of the sentence structure. How about you?

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