Sanitizing Huckleberry Finn

[saturnfan]

To make up for Huck Finn, lets take a diffrent classic novel and make it more offensive. I propose replacing the word "Moby" with "nigger" in all copies of Moby Dick.

[lisalover1]

To make up for Huck Finn, lets take a diffrent classic novel and make it more offensive. I propose replacing the word "Moby" with "nigger" in all copies of Moby Dick.

I think I would enjoy an edited version of Wuthering Heights where "Heathcliff" was replaced by "Fuckface".

[Michi]

If the book is going to be taught in schools than it should be discussed in the context it was written. If that particular school board doesn't feel as though their teachers can handle that, than they should just pick a different book to read and discuss, not give the students a sanitized version.

My teachers didn't have a problem of discussing the book in the proper context. At the point we read it we were also discussing the what led up to the Civil War, the war itself, and reconstruction in history class. So everything we were learning tied in together.

I thought the book was a wonderful supplement to the time period and gave a another perspective to the people who often get glossed over in the history books by separatist politicians and plantation owners. Jim was a slave, but also a companion and the most honest and likable person in the whole book. And despite that one controversial word, he was portrayed in a positive light. Slavery was not.

The wording in the book is historically accurate, as people didn't think twice back then about saying such things. Slavery was still legal than. That's just how they spoke. If the book is going to be taught in schools than that matter needs to be addressed and discussed or the book shouldn't be taught at all. And if the powers that be do choose the later option than it's a great shame, because of all the books I was forced to read in school, Huckleberry Finn was one of the few I actually enjoyed.

[fastbilly1]

I am inspired to read it again now. Time for Project Gutenberg to do its thing:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76

[Mendoza]

To make up for Huck Finn, lets take a diffrent classic novel and make it more offensive. I propose replacing the word "Moby" with "nigger" in all copies of Moby Dick.

I think I would enjoy an edited version of Wuthering Heights where "Heathcliff" was replaced by "Fuckface".

I'm not sure even that would make that book more interesting.

[lisalover1]

To make up for Huck Finn, lets take a diffrent classic novel and make it more offensive. I propose replacing the word "Moby" with "nigger" in all copies of Moby Dick.

I think I would enjoy an edited version of Wuthering Heights where "Heathcliff" was replaced by "Fuckface".

I'm not sure even that would make that book more interesting.

Well, there's always one way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oHw6niE9e8

[spiritplx]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-hu ... age,18745/

[Anayo]

To make up for Huck Finn, lets take a diffrent classic novel and make it more offensive. I propose replacing the word "Moby" with "nigger" in all copies of Moby Dick.

Let's just leave Huck Finn as is and make other works more obscene anyway.

[AppleQueso]

I just glanced past this thread and thought it said "Sanitizing Huckleberry Hound" and was thinking they wanted to give him pants or something.

[D.D.D.]

I just glanced past this thread and thought it said "Sanitizing Huckleberry Hound" and was thinking they wanted to give him pants or something.

Even though he's been castrated he should still wear pants and perhaps a sport coat.

But on the topic, why censor something that has been out there for years? It is what it is and changing it will not change the fact of what it once was. In fact, it likely will gather more attention like it is now and become a course in schools on how literature was changed. Or something asinine like that...