Huck Finn Outline

Huck Finn Outline
Thesis: Huck Finn needs to remain on school reading lists because it allows students to discuss slavery openly, understand the times of the South during this time, and where to learn to draw the line on censorship.

TS: Twain’s use of the n-word enables readers to discuss slavery openly.

CD: “not one of them mentions the word. They dance around it” (C)

CD: “etiolates the crushing, dehumanizing, institutional forces against the character, and minimizes Huck’s enlightenment” (F)

CD: If we can’t do that in the classroom, we can’t do that anywhere” (C)

CD: “parents feel the need to shelter children from a dark and ugly truth...” (H)

TS: Twain’s use of the n-word was used because of the times.

CD: “common racial