![]() ![]() ![]() He knows that, legally, he should turn in the runaway slave Jim. This encounter throws Huckleberry into an ethical quandary (that's a fancy way of saying "dilemma"). But this runaway isn't just escaping a mean dad he's escaping an entire system of racially based oppression. Huck runs away, and immediately encounters another runaway. Huckleberry Finn is a poor kid whose dad is an abusive drunk. Only this time, the adventures aren't so much "wacky" as life- and liberty-threatening. Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a follow-up to Tom Sawyer, and it dumps us right back in the Southern antebellum (that's "pre-war") world of Tom and his wacky adventures. in 1885-and a book that's been on required high school reading lists for almost as long. You get a book that's been banned in classrooms and libraries around the country since just about the moment it was published in the U.S. What do you get when you cross America's greatest humor writer with a runaway slave, a homeless street kid, and a lot of really offensive language? ![]()
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