The N-word has had a long dark history in American culture. It is undoubtedly a word made part of American history used to oppress, hurt, and dehumanize African Americans. The word is still commonly used today in social media, songs, by students in Algonquin. Thus making it important for students to learn the substantial impact and painful history behind this word. By teaching Huckleberry Finn, an outdated conveyance of anti-racism, it undermines the situations of slaves and paints the unrealistic picture of racial tensions for non African American students at Algonquin.
In the story Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huckleberry fakes his death and flees his abusive father. While on the run, Huck means a runaway slave, Jim, who is fleeing his owner, Miss Watson, who wants to sell him subsequently separating him from his family. Jim hopes to run away to the North …show more content…
Though Huck and Jim are friends and rely on each other, Huck questions whether he should turn Jim in or not. The story follows their adventures and their growth as characters.
By teaching a story about slavery from a white boy’s point of view, it does not allow the reader to experience the horrific effects of slavery that a slave narrative would more accurately depict. Huck’s naivety about African Americans at some points are insulting, “”He was thinking about his wife and his children, away up yonder, and he was low and homesick; because he hadn’t ever been away from home before in his life; and I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their’n. It don’t seem natural, but I reckon it’s so” (Twain 155). Huck Finn is praised for being a book that opens discussion for racial issues and topics by appealing to a white audience with a white