Huck Finn Shuold Not Be Taught!

Huckleberry Finn should not be taught in Constitution High School. There are a lot of things wrong with this book. The reason why this book shouldn’t be taught in this school is because of language, racial slurs, and a few bad examples.

First of all, this book uses bad language, grammar and has a lot of misspelled words. For example, “Yo’ole father doan know yit what he’s argwyne to do.” “ You wants to keep way fum de water as much as you kin, en don’t run no resk, kase its down in de bills dat yous gwyne to git hung.” The author put misspelled words and bad grammar because they use to talk like that in the south, but people shouldn’t read stuff like that.

Secondly, racial slurs, in the book they call people niggers, they use it in every sentence. “ Miss. Watson’s big nigger, named Jim.” “Niggers would come miles to hear him tell it, and he was more looked up to them then any nigger in that country.” I really don’t think the author should of put that word in the book because some one reading the story would feel offended by that word.

Lastly, this book has bad examples. Huck Finn smokes and he also runs away. “ I set down again, a-shaking all over, and got out my pipe for a smoke.” He also shouldn’t have Huck Finn smoking because kids might think if he can do it they can.

To sum up, I really don’t think that children at Constitution High School or at any other school should read this book. It has bad language, racial slurs and sets bad examples. Would you want your child or any other child learning about things of that nature??