The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain

Reasons to readDo you like history?Are you interested in literature?Do you like to laugh?Can you understand satire?Are you low-key racist?Does slavery seem okay?

If you answered yes to the first four questions then this book is a must read. The book was written in 1884 after the emancipation of slaves in 1865. The book was very controversial.

Satire Satire is a method of exaggerating

or ridiculing to expose the stupidity of others.

Satire in Huck FinnMiss Watson was considered a

“saint” however she owned another human being.

More Satire in the book "He was the innocentest, best old soul I ever see. But it

warn't surprising; because he warn't only just a farmer, he was a preacher, too, and had a little one-horse log church down back of the plantation, which he built it himself at his own expense, for a church and schoolhouse, and never charged for his preaching, and it was worth it, too. There was plenty other farmer-preachers like that, and done the same way, down South.“ (pg.232)

Twain is criticizing a farmer and preacher Silas who preaches to follow the Bible but yet owns a slave. He says he has a great soul but it was the way of the south to own slaves and yet preach something else.

ControversyMany people do not admire this

book because they claim it is vulgar due to the frequent use of the word “nigger.”

This book contains the word “nigger” frequently as a way of criticizing the South during the Reconstruction period.

People used the word as a derogatory term to describe black people as inferior.

You should readThe book contains a great point

of view of a young boy and his journey of setting a slave free