September 22, 200421 yr So anyone else here a huge fan of these books? Personally, I take Huck Finn over Tom Sawyer(not knocking Sawyer just felt Huck was the better of the two) it had everything in terms of excitement I as a child could ask for... Family Feud shootouts, hilarious context between Huck and Jim, two entertaining escape attempts and in my view the funniest moment in my literary experience as Tom wants to run The Jim escape plan just like those he's read in books. As I grew older, at the core was a very entertaining but harsh view of 19th century southerners by Twain which in some ways still has meaning in terms of The Mob Mentality and those of kids who simply follow their parents views because it's their parents.
September 22, 200421 yr I find Huck Finn to be the more literary of the two (especially with the relationship of Jim and Huck set amongst the backdrop of the Southern racist mentality of that time). But, I've never been a big fan of Twain outside of his quotes, but I've read both of those books.
September 23, 200421 yr Do kids read completely unabridged versions of Huck Finn? I don't think it's appropriate for 10 year old to read books where they drop the "n" word a few hundred times. Then again, it is a pretty cool book.
September 23, 200421 yr Do kids read completely unabridged versions of Huck Finn? I don't think it's appropriate for 10 year old to read books where they drop the "n" word a few hundred times. Then again, it is a pretty cool book. 569300[/snapback] Although I see your point, it really is a matter of being PC. Mark Twain wrote in the style of the time. I think that in order to know where you're going, you need to know where you've been. How will kids know that the word n****r is bad if they don't know why it was used in the first place?
September 23, 200421 yr Do kids read completely unabridged versions of Huck Finn? I don't think it's appropriate for 10 year old to read books where they drop the "n" word a few hundred times. Then again, it is a pretty cool book. 569300[/snapback] Although I see your point, it really is a matter of being PC. Mark Twain wrote in the style of the time. I think that in order to know where you're going, you need to know where you've been. How will kids know that the word n****r is bad if they don't know why it was used in the first place? 569394[/snapback] It's a word that probably needs to be dropped from White America's vernacular. There shouldn't be a right or wrong associated with the word. It shouldn't exist in the mind of a white person.
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