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Should High School Juniors be Required to Read Huckleberry Finn? The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, is a source of controversy because it includes the sensitive topic of race. The controversy even reaches high school education, where many juniors are required to read the novel during their junior year. This requirement raises many questions about the value of the novel. One question is whether or not the novel should be …

…which is about a slave who breaks the law and risks his life to win his freedom and be reunited with his family, and a white boy who becomes his friend and helps him escape (Swift). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Work Cited Fishkin, Shelley. F. “About the Book” Yahoo. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/> Swift, Tim. “Huck Finn Ignites State Controversy” Yahoo. 23 Feb. 1998. Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Reinhart and Co. Inc. 1994.