"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the Classroom

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This paper presents an analysis of the social commentary about slavery in Mark Twain's famous story, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and then launches into a discussion of the appropriateness of the book in the classroom. The paper concludes that "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" should be included in the school syllabus but that teachers should be equipped and trained to handle sensitive issues that may arise as a result of reading the book.

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""The adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is one of the finest works of Mark Twain and probably the most controversial too. This is because it is by no means an ordinary story of Huckleberry's adventures; it is essentially a social commentary on the slavery and post civil war era in the United States. T. S. Eliot in 1950 acknowledged the book as, "...the only one of Mark Twain's various books which can be called a masterpiece. I do not suggest that it is his only book of permanent interest; but it is the only one in which his genius is completely realized, and the only one which creates its own category.""

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