Shoul Huck Finn e thought at CHS?

Malissa Reid
December 12, 2007

Should Huck Finn be thought at CHS?

I believe that Huck Finn should not be taught at CHS. Many of the students who attend this school are fairly mature. Although students enjoy this book, I think the author specks negative towards the government, use racist slings, and can also be influencing at times.

As young adults we tend to look up to our older siblings, friends, and even our counter parts. Huck Finn was a young boy who would smoke when an adult wasn’t around. Society is not prefect and many adults and children smoke. Kids may think that smoking isn’t a bad thing, and some may do it because of peer pressure, or even because they think it’s cool.

During the 1800s many of the Southern, and Northern states were segregated. In this book the author tend to use the word nigger very often. Now if someone in the 1800s were to read this book they would find some of the many responses very racist.

No matter how much we complain about the government, there is nothing we could do to change it, and if we do it would be very hard. In chapter 6 Pap speck very negative about the government because they are going to give Mrs. Watson custody of Huck. So pap believed that the government was ridiculous.