“Twain, at least in Huckleberry Finn, reveals himself to be one of those

writers of whom there are a great many in any literature who have discovered a new way of writing, valid not only for themselves, but for others.

I should place him, in the respect, even with Dryden and Swift, as one of those rare writers who have brought their language up to date and in doing so, “purified the dialect of the tribe.” In this respect, I should place him above Hawthorne” (Blair 6).

One of the most controversial issues of the entire novel are the constant “racial remarks” made towards the “nigger” Jim. Huck is the main source of the racist dialect due to his own understanding of society. Huck Finn was the child of the town drunk known as Pap who is responsible for the bringing up of Huck.

The initial publication of Huckleberry Finn in 1884, caused a huge uproar. The book was criticized through many different social classes throughout history.

“I suspect”, T.S. Eliot was to write in 1950, “that a fear on the part of my parents lest I should acquire a premature taste for tobacco, and perhaps other habits of the hero of the story, kept the book out of my way” (Blair 42).

“Able critics have declared that the psychology of Huck Finn is the book’s large feature: Huck’s moral point of view, the struggle between his heart and his conscience concerning the sin of Jim’s concealment and his final decision of self-sacrifice” (Paine 354).

Some topics in this essay:
Huckleberry Finn, Huck’s Pap, Huck Finn, Mark Twain, Tom Pap, Library Board, TS Eliot, Huck Jim, Concord Massachusetts, Huck Tom, huckleberry finn, century offended, mark twain, word “nigger”, “huckleberry finn, twentieth century offended, jim huck, twentieth century, huck finn, banned libraries, blair 41,