I think that the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is not a racist book, yes the book have some parts where Huck use some words or speech that may upset some people, but is just in some parts of the book not the hole book, because you can see how Huck and Jim have really good times together, but in the last chapters of the story you can see that Huck is a little more racist, and is where you can see that the book becomes a little racist. I think Mark Twain didn't wrote the book in a racist way. I know that some people can be offended for some words Huck say, but is not that much.
Everybody is free to think what they want, but I my opinion the book in not racist, but this dont mean that the book is anti-racist because in some parts Huck say some inappropriate things, what can offended some people.
Nagore,
ReplyDeleteI think you make an important distinction between not being racist, and not being anti-racist. You may have a point that the racism, if it exists in the novel, is unintentional (Twain didn't even set out to write a book about racism); and while I admire your view that everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion, I wonder how it must be for students of color who have no choice but to sit in class while this novel is read and discussed. Perhaps you would be on firmer ground in arguing that, while the novel is not intentionally racist--and indeed, has some significant scenes that show its narrator overcoming his inherited racism--it may be too offensive to enough students to preclude its being taught at all.