Since being published, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain has been met with high praise as well as harsh criticism. There is a lot of controversy over Twain's use of the "N" word in the book, how he portrays Jim, a runaway slave, and the hero Huck Finn is made out to be for helping Jim escape slavery. Twain has been called racist for the language in his book and the satire he uses has been completely ignored, which gives the book a pro-racism feeling. Huckleberry Finn is not a racist book; in fact it promotes freedom for slaves. Mark Twain uses satire, Huck's struggle with what is right and wrong and Jim's character as a way to show the reader that slavery was wrong and that African-American people deserve as much respect as white people.

Throughout the book, Twain uses satire to prove how ignorant...