censorship
... the Grangerfords and Shepardsons episode is satirizing people's false sense of honor and hipocracy as they go to church and listen to sermons about brotherly love and peace, while at the same time stroking their guns. Twain also takes a huge shot at religion. Huck complains that before he can eat he has to listen to the widow grumble over a few lines. Huck also says he would prefer hell over heaven because his friend Tom Sawyer would be there, and heaven seemed boring, with the harps and clouds and all. Many people have said that Jim is a racial sterotype. This, however, could not be further from the truth. How can Jim be a stereotypical slave if he was willing to care for Huck, after he had learned of Huck's father's passing away. Jim stayed with him on his journey down the Mississippi River even though he knew it was leading him straight into slave country where he was no doubtedly being looked for. This decision has transcended the streotype and turned Jim into what many would call a hero. A sterotypical slave would have just turned around and left Huck for dead after the slave realized they had passed Cairo and had no shot at getting north by river. So if anyone tells you that Huck Finn should be banned because Jim is a stereotype and Twain is attacking slaves, you just tell them that Jim was a hero and the world will be better if more people read about his good deeds and are influenced by them. However, and this is a big however, there is some language in the book that African Americans would, understandably, find offensive. But if the teacher talks about the word nigger, and makes sure the class understands that nigger was a common word when the book was written. The meaning of the word has changed from an ordinary word to describe blacks to a derogatory term. If the teacher is sure that t...