REALITY BITES: Why The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should not be banned A 16-year-old young man watches Jerry Springer as the hostile Ku Klux Klan shout racial slurs at African-Americans in the audience. His mother walks in the room, snatches the remote control all tells him he is not to watch such shows; then, she changes the channel to CNN and watches a black farmer beat a white landowner over a land dispute in Africa. …showed first 75 words of 1833 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1833 total…would deny a student: history of American society, harshness of our society, and the chance to develop morals and a conscience. Eventually every young-adult’s shelter from the real world will be severed away, exposing the real world—all its glaring faults and all its fine glories. If school is the place for one to learn, let thi! s novel educate the students culturally, realistically and morally in their minds, hearts, and spirits. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**