Schools continue to grapple with 'Huckleberry Finn'

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 12/11/15 | Justine McDaniel

[SunkenCiv]

got started on posting it chapter by chapter, will have to hunt up the file and continue the process.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2653308/posts

[kearnyirish2]

Sure; Islam is as American as bean pies and kebab!

Actually, it played an important role in one of our first exercises in projecting force overseas (with the Barbary pirates at “the shores of Tripoli”).

[trebb]

Some of us know it is a story.....a made up account intending to entertain. Some are not that smart.

And anti-slavery in tone...

[ops33]

I graduated from a Bishop England High School, Charleston, SC, in 1970. I can recall that all of the books of that time that other schools were banning, Catcher in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn, etc., were in our school library. Along with copies of the Kuran.

[BuffaloJack]

> What would that appraise for? curious
We’ve already turned down $1200, because it seemed low.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***It is a First Edition copy of “Huckleberry Finn”.***

For some reason a scene with a flame thrower from the movie FAHRENHEIT 451 popped into mind.

[jch10]

When I read it political correctness was not in the vocabulary. The morale was do the right thing. Some made it a slavery thing. It wasn’t to me.

[Kozy]

It doesn't matter, its the serious of the fact, charge all rap singers with murder. Gee don't I sound like a fascist liberal?

[Verginius Rufus]

When Huck tries to say “Can you speak French?” in French to Jim, it is so mangled that they had put the correct French in brackets after Huck’s version.

[Daffynition]

If Twain were alive....I don't think the people criticizing his *Finn* would like what he would say. It would be colorful. **&*$@!!!**