Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Introduction
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel that was written by Mark Twain. Mark Twain in his early days he had dropped out of school and started working in various newspaper offices. However, he left the newspaper offices and started working on the Mississippi River rafts. After the start of the Civil War, mark to Nevada where he started his publishing career as a writer. His first published book was in 1867. Over the years since his first book publication, mark wrote many other tales from autobiography fiction to historical fiction books (Purdy, 2017). The book was first published in 1884 in the United Kingdom and later published in 1885 in the United States.

Mark Twain’s book was delayed to be published due to the differences and complications between the various publishers in the United States due to the issue with profit sharing. The American Publishing company together with Mark Twain agreed on how the profits were to be shared. However, later on in the year 1885, the book was published in the United States.

Book description
The historical context of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is based on the pre-civil war period, which is between 40 to 50 years before 1885 when the book was published. The book is based on the slavery that was still considered legal in the North and South as well as Missouri in the United States. in the year 1820, the issue of slavery was becoming a topic in the United States where the inhabitants of the North felt that the Slavery laws desecrated the doctrines of a free country (Purdy, 2017).

The people in the south however had a high reliance on the labor in which the slaves provided in supporting their industries which were as important to the entire country as well. Due to these disagreements, the country split into two groups in which the southern half was considered the slave states, and the northern half was considered the free states.

The book explored various brutal exploitations of the slaves who mostly comprised black people uprooted from Africa and forcefully transported into the country mainly in the southern region of the United States (Britannica, 2019). In his book, Twain highlighted the physiological and physical dominations that the slaves were taken through when working as laborers in the tobacco and cotton plantations in America. The book basically advocated for the rights of the slave’s human rights which were undermined by their masters in the plantations.

How it was received

Upon the publication of the book, it gained great popularity within the United States where it was considered a perfect masterpiece at first. It was considered the best book that was ever written in the country owing to the manner in which Twain used a masterful display of frauds, hoaxes, as well as pranks that offered an overall representation of American humor in writings. Before Twain’s publication of the Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, there was no other author who had written a novel that blended the American condition in a manner that was so engaging and fascinating.

Why the book was banned

However, upon the book gaining popularity, within a few months, the librarians as well as the public commissioners in Massachusetts labeled the book as trash and was banned in libraries as well as schools. They described the book as coarse, racist, inelegant, trashy, inaccurate, irreligious as well as mindless (O’Sullivan, 2020). However, the most cited reason for the banning of the Adventure of Huckleberry Finn book was moistly cited as racism content in the book. Those who criticized the book argued that the book negatively portrayed the Americans in favor of the black slaves who were present in the United States.

Opinion

However, in regards to Twain’s book, Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, I view the book being a masterpiece of art that the author used to express the challenges that the black slaves were subjected to by the native Americans when working as laborers within the country. Therefore, I find it to be a worthy book that was not supposed to be banned since it gave a general overview of the issues of racism that were happening in the early 80s in America.

Conclusion

Despite the controversies that the book faced, it remains to be one of the best books that depicted the state of slavery in America that had not been published by any other author. The book covers all the mistreatments that were subjected to the slaves, therefore, enlightening the young generation who were obviously not around that time of the effects of racism.

Work Cited

Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. " Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Aug. 2019, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Adventures-of-Huckleberry- Finn-novel-by-Twain. Accessed 4 April 2022.

O’Sullivan, Mary T. (2020, June 22). Why did we ban the adventures of Huckleberry Finn? RINewsToday.com. Retrieved April 4, 2022, from https://rinewstoday.com/why-did-we-ban-the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/

Purdy, E. R. (2017, January 7). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Retrieved April 4, 2022, from https://www.mtsu.edu/firstamendment/article/789/adventures-of-huckleberryfinn#:~:text=Huckleberry%20Finn%20banned%20immediately%20after%20publication&text=Immediately%20after%20publication%2C%20the%20book,obsolete%2C%20inaccurate%2C%20and%20mindles.