The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should not be banned

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Some people believe that some of Mark Twain's writings such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should be banned because they use words such as "nigger." Twain doesn't use the word "nigger" to be racist. He uses it because it was used in everyday conversation as a reference to African Americans during the period that the book takes place. The book takes place in the 1800s the time period in which Twain lived. If you've …

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…which clearly states in the first amendment that people under the United States government have the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. This means that anyone can write whatever they feel like and there's nothing you can do about it. Anyone who thinks that books should be banned just because of the material that they present and the possibility that that material might bother some people might like, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.