AMERICAN LITERATURETHE ADVENTURES OF HUCK FINN

Hello and my name is Abhishek Karmakar and I am 16 years old. I live in Shanghai and study in Shanghai American School. I am writing this letter to you about the banning of the book “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain.
I have found out that the school board has banned the study of this book. I am not happy with this because I think this a wonderful book and should be encouraged to read all over the world. It is a book about American literature written in the late 1800’s. The book takes place during the mid 1800’s and it is widely discouraged by some people due to the racial content it exposes. Mark Twain himself worked around the Mississippi river. He probably wrote this book during his experience in the river, so probably everything in the book is what he reflected on. Lots of African-American people have been offended by this book. They have not understood the book or they have not read the whole book. The novel is about a boy named Huckleberry ...