How Does Huck Finn Ruin Your Masterpiece
Let's Ruin Your Masterpiece What if someone wanted to ruin your masterpiece? Mark Twain wrote his masterpiece The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn in 1985 for everyone to read, but everyone didn’t agree with his wording. Twain wrote this book before the time of the civil war, during slavery. There is many different synonyms for the word slave laborer, servant, worker victim and much more. Twain chose the word nigger. When people see that word they think of it as a very offensive word for african americans. Twain saw it a different way and he grew up with people saying that word. Twain wrote the story his way for a reason and it shouldn’t be altered with. Twain's masterpiece was ruined when people thought the word nigger was too explicit to be said. People wanted to change the word or they didn't want their kids to read the book. “Huck’s note will now call Jim a “Runaway slave” (Leonard Pitts. Jr). Changing writer's words isn’t original for the writer. Twain is a famous original writer and it’s not your
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“Race matters in these books. It’s a matter of how you express that it is the twenty-first century.” (Schultz) We do in the twenty-first century but you can’t forget about our past. Students black and white all across America have to take history classes and in those classes we have to learn about slavery. It was in our American history and we can’t forget it. People in the forty-second century will be learning about slavery, it won’t get lost in history. “Even a cursory glance at the historical record will show that Twain use of the reprehensible word was an accurate reflection of that era.” (Leonard Pitts, Jr.) Twain wrote what he knew. He didn’t grow up in our society, where the word nigger is a bad word. Nigger was an everyday word for him. “The past is what it is, immutable and non-negotiable” (Leonard Pitts, Jr). The past is the past. There's no changing it. You can not make your own modifications to the
“Race matters in these books. It’s a matter of how you express that it is the twenty-first century.” (Schultz) We do in the twenty-first century but you can’t forget about our past. Students black and white all across America have to take history classes and in those classes we have to learn about slavery. It was in our American history and we can’t forget it. People in the forty-second century will be learning about slavery, it won’t get lost in history. “Even a cursory glance at the historical record will show that Twain use of the reprehensible word was an accurate reflection of that era.” (Leonard Pitts, Jr.) Twain wrote what he knew. He didn’t grow up in our society, where the word nigger is a bad word. Nigger was an everyday word for him. “The past is what it is, immutable and non-negotiable” (Leonard Pitts, Jr). The past is the past. There's no changing it. You can not make your own modifications to the