It is hard to believe that many people still want to ban educational books from schools everywhere. One of the books being boycotted is the ever famous, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, who was an extremely progressive author in his time. Although Twain repeats the offensive "n" word for negro many times throughout the novel, it still teaches the meaning of friendship and love, (which is represented by Huck and a runaway slave named Jim). Due to the racial relations commented in this book, it is thought to be crude and unacceptable, which is very wrong indeed. Banning a book such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn would be considered shallow and appalling, because this novel teaches honorably moral lessons of life.

First, Huck learned how to respect people, especially his friend, Jim. It is true that he learned the hard way, by playing...