Argumentative Essay On Huckleberry Finn

There has been tons of controversy on the book “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and how it excessively uses the “N” word. There is the side where people want to have it taken out because of the offensive nature of the word. It makes them uncomfortable and feel disrespectful in a way. Then there is the side where people know and take into consideration that the now controversial “N” word is apart of americas past history. It may make them uncomfortable but they know it is just apart of the book and Mark Twain did not intend to harm or offend anyone in the process of writing the book. this paper is going to bring to your attention on why it would be better to leave it in the book.

The ”N” word should be kept in the book because its not like it has died with time. our generation and i'm sure many more to come will be using this word in every way. its just apart of who we are.the word was used in everyday situations in the past and it is still used today in everyday situations such as younger kids thinking that it is cool but now people find it to be immoral and disrespectful. when really they shouldn't because Mark Twain isn't trying to offend anyone because he knows that was apart of
he was just trying to capture the essence of the word and put a strong word like that in his book to make it a much better book. people wanna replace the word with an alternative such as “slave”.A quote that i found and picked out of an article basically says that taking the word out of the book would be a disgrace to america , “Sanitizing the Language which aided and abetted white America’s denial of humanity of black Americans from the nation’s founding doesn’t change the history. It papers it over and allows us to dodge its rawness”. als saying that people shouldn't feel offended because it is a big part of americas history. All Twain was ding was giving character to the people in his