Why The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should be included in a high school curriculum

Throughout the past century in high schools across the nation, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by the renown author Samuel Clemens (known primarily as Mark Twain), has been read by teenagers such as myself. This novel is a part of American literature and should always be included in a high school curriculum. The book has some coarse language, but only in order to make the story more real. There are some controversial issues, and …

…Huckleberry Finn is an obvious classic in American literature. It teaches life-long lessons to everybody, young and old. The language used was what it was really like in the day of Samuel Clemens. Clemens was never trying to offend anyone. He was only trying to tell a good story with important morals. Last time I checked, those were not two of the characteristics of a book that should be banned from a high school curriculum.