Hush

I think editing Huck Finn is ridiculous. I think part of the reason Mark Twain uses the n-word could be to show the reader how dirty and discriminatory it sounds. Mark Twain says in the author's note at the beginning of the book that he studied all the dialects he uses in Huck Finn, and so I am sure white people actually used the word at the time the book takes place. Mark Twain "was a passionate critic of American racism," so no one should edit his book when the point is to expose American racism. The editing of the n-word makes white Americans at that time seem less racist than they were. Personally, I think Twain's use of the n-word makes me more aware of how extremely racist it is.

Huck used the word many times because society taught him that it was okay. Although Huck diverges from society's racist belief through his experiences with Jim, his use of the n-word throughout the novel shows that he can probably never truly break away from the ideas society has placed in his head.