Mark Twain is called the father of American literature, and very few people have never read Mark Twains book. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyers Adventure, and Life on the Mississippi are such literary works that many people may have heard of. Among these famous books from Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the book that will be dealt with. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a story about the journey of a poor southern white boy named Huck, running away with Jim who is an African-American slave. In search for their freedom, the two escaped from the social restraints that they used to be cuffed and travel along the Mississippi River. Although this book is very familiar and is considered to be a boyhood adventure tale to most of us, Huck Finn has been creating a great controversy on both sides of the argument, that whether the book should be banned from th
e American school curriculum or not. From the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, characters speak with a racist language. The racist language that characters use to speak and the way they address African Americans causes a great controversy regarding whether to ban the book in public schools or keep it. The center of the dispute is the usage of the word nigger which is used repeatedly throughout the novel. The fact that the word is so often used throughout the book offends many African Americans. It is a well-known fact that the word nigger has powerful negative connotations and past references to blacks as slaves. Not only did Twain overused the word nigger throughout the book, but he additionally portrayed blacks brutally through negative and insulting stereotypes. An example of this attitude can be seen when Aunt Sally and Huck talk about a steamboat incident that caused an explosion: