Huckleberry Finn and he 1st amendment

“Huck Finn and the First Amendment” The novel “Huckleberry Finn” by the American author Mark Twain (1835-1910) has caused a great controversy in the United States whether to ban the book or not. One of the main reasons of the censorship concerning the book is the frequent use of the term “nigger”. Critics of the book consider this a deep depreciation of blacks. With this term the individual freedom would not be taken into account …

…the freedom of press. In addition to that the advocates for the book carry on that Twain merely meant his book to be deeply pessimistic and ironical about Americans white society. By using offending terms like “nigger” the author wants to criticise the falsity and hypocrisy of the society described in the book. More than one-hundred years after its writing we have a split public opinion about this issue and it is apparently not accordable.