The Day They Came to Arrest the Book | Themes and Characters
The theme deals with whether high school students should have unlimited access to controversial reading materials so that they can make up their own minds about the merits of such materials or whether they should be protected from "ugliness" of one kind or another by book censors.
The main character is the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. All conversation and action revolve around it, and readers will learn a great deal about Mark Twain's and Huck's intentions, beliefs, and social condition. Aside from that, the main character is Barnaby Roth, a very...
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