Mark Twain and the Use Research Paper

Huck even sounds more like Jim than the other characters in the work in terms of his dialect, and the fact that he pretends Jim is his father underlines the degree to which the two of them are bound in a relationship. The NAACP national headquarters' current position endorses the book: "You don't ban Mark Twain-you explain Mark Twain! To study an idea is not necessarily to endorse the idea. Mark Twain's satirical novel, Huckleberry Finn, accurately portrays a time in history -- the nineteenth century -- and one of its evils, slavery" (Huckleberry Finn, PBS, 2011). Twain was a product of his society, but he was also a critic of it, and his ironic language enables the reader to appreciate nuances in his satire of racism that perhaps even many of Twain's contemporary readers did not fully understand.Works Cited

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