I'm going to argue that the book should not be taugh in schools, especially not a liturature class because it is a peice of crap. After reading Jane Eyre this book is unbeleivably poorly written with constantly changing themes and ideas. Its almost like Mark Twain sat down, said "I'm going to write a sequel to Tom Saywer." and then proceded to throw out a jumble of random ideas. He even had to stop writing at one point because he had no honest idea about what the hell he was going to write next.
I'm going to use Jane Smiley, Frederick Douglass, Kevin Cato, David Bradley, and Ms. Montero as my supporting crictics and some information from the Hartford Courant, Peaches Henry, and Mr. Eliot and Mr. Trilling to argue against. Parts of the book im going to use are parts where Jim is left on the raft and completly forgoten about, or when Jim and Huck pass Cairo and the book looses it orriginal theme, again, and how it changes from a boy's book to a man's book more than once through out the narrative as well as the fact that Mr. Twain set the book aside for three years to think about what his own idea for the whole book is, as well as the random addition of seemingly unessisary characters that seem to show us no morals or lead us to no life changing conclution.