Part one of term paper
I don’t know anything that mars literature so much as too much truth- Mark Twain An honest and realistic view of southern life was what Mark Twain had in mind when writing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Satiric as this view may have been, it was by no means prejudiced (against blacks). By reading his book and researching his life, o ...

Part two of term paper
... Twain took this insult one step further, refusing to have it sold in book stores- preferring instead selling it door to door. This method appealed to the masses, if not the respectable class. Twain once wrote, “My books are water; those of great geniuses wine. Everybody drinks water” (Zwick 1). Now, over 100 years later, Huckleberry Finn suffers yet another attack. It has been called racist trash, derogatory for its use of the word nigger and its stereotypical portrayal of blacks. Helen ...