Huck Finn: A Classic Controversy Throughout the years The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain has left criticism and controversy in its wake. Today the book is still in the top ten list of banned books in America. Since the mid-1900s most objections of the novel stemmed from Twain's depiction of racial relations in the pre-Civil War South. The matter-of-fact use of the slang of the time, and the graphic description of ... literature. The novel is a perfect adaptation of how life was lived in the South in the late 1800s. In an essay written by T.S. Eliot he speaks of its "consistency ...

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• Grade Level: High School