The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin

n the world today, we constantly battle to protect the young that will hopefully someday change our future. Some people may say, who cares about our youth, we don't need them for the future. Well, reading the novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin" will protect our future by pointing out certain ideas in the book, like satire. Only because they show how bad slavery and racial explanations were a terrible thing. This is why the author Mark twain or Samuel Clemens showed satire by putting slavery and racial explanations together to show how unbelievably sick parts of the past, present and unfortunately our future.

Many people including parents will complain or already have to schools about reading the novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin" because it contains words, "Nigger" for those of African decent. Words just to degrade black people. What people did not know is that Mark Twain uses these words and dialect to make it easier for people to understand how Huck fins feelings were toward slavery. Especially his family values between him and Pap. Huck starts out as a low life child that didn't have a education and was not pointing towards having one either. Pap constantly degrades Huck and wants him to be just like him or even lower then him, pap gets mad at Huck when Huck becomes more civilized with friends and other citizens. I think pap is jealous of Huck, maybe because pap wanted to have a good life like Huck is having right now and he never got to see what a good life really is until now.

Secondly, when Huck helps Jim the black slave, Huck seen more than a crummy dumb black person that everyone else saw in African Americans. Huck seen under Jim's skin, he looked towards his heart, what his feelings were. He then knew, he wasn't just a dumb "Nigger" he was a great person almost like a family member to Huck. Huck could only trust Jim because no one wanted to trust Huck because he liked slaves. One thing that bothered most parents and other people was the term "Nigger". They are bothered by this term referring to African Americans because they thought it would be way too dangerous for the kids to read and learn about. Kids look up to us adults so this is why parents were concerned about using such a degrading word. Mark Twain did not mean it in a degrading way, he as a great author wanted to express that word and use clear satire in the novel.

Parents and other citizens that are concerned of there kids reading this novel should not be concerned. Mark Twain just expresses these degrading words to get the point across, slavery was evil. Just like when Huck said "hell that he would just rather go to hell." Instantly people thought Satan but hell is where the moral Huck Fin would go. People should not overreact over this Mark Twain was only using satire, and satire was what the whole novel was about