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- I am a sixteen year old female who is in an honors English class and we discussed this issue in class last week. We all agreed that taking the 'n word' out of the book would not only be degrading to the book, but would be an insult to the Black community be degrading them to future generations to the insult and for lack of a better word, bullying they were put through.
What Gibbens is doing is shading young adults from the truth from my generation. Keeping the 'N-word' from my generation is like keeping the historical value of the Holocaust out of our history text books because our books descirbe the durastic details of the homocides that occured in that historical event. Taking the 'n word' out of the book would be like taking the inscenerators out of the historical events of the Holocaust. That would be wrong. - Reply to this comment
- i feel that huckleberry finn isnt the best choice book to read in a hight school level as welll as maybe collage due to its constint use of the N word "******". i myself am biracial and is not really takin to offence of the word, but i still know that its hurt full to the black culture. its not hard to switch the word for another name to call blacks within the book.
on another note, when you read the book from beging to almost middle, you will seem that huck and jim are on a cool adventure running away as well as pretending you were murder just to live life on your own. you get this nice vibe of them on the move untill later thier adventure turns into a boring book that rambals on into things that looses the meaning to adventrure the indure, but that just my oppion, anyone has anything to add please subscribe =] - Reply to this comment
- My son studied it last semester in his honors English class. He was not offended. He also feels that to change the book is inherently wrong. He even brought up the slippery slope cliche and wondered what would be next. He abhors racism and does not condone it in any form but he said that this is the stupidest thing he has seen in a long time, with the exception of any story about politics. He also commented that this jerk probably just wanted to get his name in the news. I agree with him.
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- THIS IS ABSOLUTELY OUT OF THE SOVIET UNION PLAYBOOK! While the Soviets usually doctored photographs to try to lie about history for political purposes, gribbenizing works of literature is totally analagous for political (& political correctness)purposes. Outrageous and shameful. Even as a 14 year old youth growing up in rural Minnesota who could count on one hand the number of African Americans he had encountered in the flesh, Huckleberry Finn came through as humorous, yes, but also as a devastating indictment of slavery. An utterly through-and-through work of AMERICAN art, the book had a similar impact when I read it aloud to my 12 and 10 year old children. Just 2 weeks ago I saw the book on my daugher's coffee table; she wanted to understand how as a 31 year old she would perceive it and allowed that my rendering 20 years prior had a profound impact on her world view. Gribben is an ignorant fool.
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- What's next? We censor Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man? Richard Wright's Native Son? Where does the insanity end?
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- I responded to a comment above asking why people who opposed this censorship didn't simply use the word "******" in their comments, rather than typing (shudder) "the 'n-word'". CBS censored me, which proves them as bad as Gribbens.
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- Allan Gribben is a worthy successor to Thomas Bowdler, who thought he could make Shakespeare more palatable by expurgating his work. As a result, we now talk of the bowdlerization of a text. Perhaps we should now update this by introducing the verb to gribbenize. Prof. Gribben truly deserves this.
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- Allan Gribben is a worthy successor to Thomas Bowdler, who thought he could make Shakespeare more palable by expurgating his work. As a result, we now talk of the bowdlerization of a text. Perhaps we should now update this by introducing the verb to gribbenize. Prof. Gribben truly deserves this.
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- A guy can write a book about the proper way to molest children. Get it published. Sell it. Yet, someone feels that the "N" word in a piece of literature must be edited out because it is offensive. You can't whitewash history. I don't understand this country anymore.
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- I'm with Mark Twain.
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