Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Huckleberry Finn Should be Taught
I do believe that The Adventures Of Hucklebverry Finn should be continued in school through debates and discussions. Although I believe the book provides plenty of reasons for an intelligent debate I don not think it is a good enough book to be read in college. Going into college I was expecting so much more than to read The Adventures of Hucklberry Finn. I was hoping for a book that challenges my knowledge and teaches me new ideas, and instead we are reading a book that I had previously read sophomore year in High School. The maturity level when I first read the book was not even near the requirement needed to have full discussion. many of the students merely made a mockery of the situations that occur in the novel. Senior year in high school would be the ideal time for a class to read, discuss, and debate the controversies in the book due to the higher level of maturity.
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I agree with you. I don't think this book should be necessarily banned from the education system, but I think there are other books that would be more interesting for students to read.
Well put.
Can the maturity level be corrected just by having seniors in high school read it? Or is it purely by an overall class maturity level, and not based on the individual students? In my senior english class could not have handled such a novel, so does it really deserve to be read even at an immature level?
Why is it not a good enough book? Is it the lack of intelligence of the characters, the time period it's set in, or just the overall lack of material to debate with?
I like the point you make about needing to be a mature reader. It would be interesting if you wrote more on how the book might be viewed differently if people started reading it at a different age.
Thats a great point about going into college and reading the same book. You believe that the book should continue to be read in high school, yet you claim that the maturity level wasn't there, thats conflicting.
To connor:
i read the book sophomore year when the maturity level was possibility at its lowest. By the time I was in senior year the maturity levelhad risen dramatically. i think those two years make a substantial difference, at least they did for me and the majority of my class
Did you like the book?
eh, it was an interesting read.
But i've had better
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