One of these sources was an interview, conducted via email with David Bradley, a published author and retired faculty member of the University of Oregon. Resources were compiled from various sources in order to provide a deep analysis of the censorship of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. School systems argue that the novel encourages racism by not directly challenging the racial elements placed in the novel. This text challenges the ideas of accepted morals within a society and that is one of the primary reasons for its censorship. Scenes from this book depict African-Americans and whites interacting frequently with one another, as shown in Figure 1, which is considered to be an controversial aspect of the text. Ultimately, Huck discovers that his father has died, Tom gets shot, and Jim finds out that his owner has freed him in her will, having died while he was in the process of running away. Huck battles with the idea of helping Jim escape slavery until Huck decides “All right, then, I’ll go to hell” (Twain), then his friend Tom enters the picture. After being taken by his father, Huck then fakes his death to escape his father and befriends a slave named Jim.
The plot of the novel involves the young Huck Finn being “sivilized” in Missouri when his father demands the large sum of cash that Huck had encountered at the end of Twain’s predecessor novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
The novel was censored for the racial elements used in the novel, primarily the use of the word “nigger”. The text was censored primarily in two waves, with the first wave ranging from 1885-1905 and the second wave ranging from 1957-2005. The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain has been censored across the United States of America by local school systems. Figure 2: Book Cover of the 2nd edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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