“The original product is changed for the benefit of those who, for one reason or another, are not mature enough to handle it”
Can someone explain to the academic pedant that If you’re mature enough to actually read it, you’re mature enough to “handle” it?
For crying out loud. I read this book at eleven, and I knew you weren’t supposed to say the “n” word. My mom would have slapped me into the middle of next week.
By the way, Huck calls the girl with the cleft palate, whom he really likes, a ‘harelip.’ Are they going to change that, too?
But that’s all irrelevant. Under the guise of keeping this book out of the hands of children, they manage to ban it for everyone, which is their real goal.
On FAMILY GUY there was an episode where Peter and the gang were the STAND BY ME characters. In the end the narrator said that the River Phoenix character had died from a drug overdose in front of a nightclub. It then showed a picture of Joaquin Phoenix and said “All we have left is a hair lipped reminder of what might have been.”