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Essay Archive - To Teach or Not To Teach?
To Teach or Not To Teach?
To teach or not to teach? This is the question that is presently
on many administrators' minds about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by
Mark Twain. For those who read the book without grasping the important
concepts that Mark Twain gets across "in between the lines", many problems
arise. A reader may come away with the impression that the novel is simply
a negative view of the African-American race. Many scholars and educators,
like Marylee Hengsetbeck who said, "If Huck Finn is used solely as a part
of a unit on slavery or racism, we sell the book short." (Hengstebeck 32)
feel that ther....
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