The role of literature plays a huge role in racism and discrimination. This story educates people on how wrong racism is, slavery and discrimination. Historical forces do leave an impact on the classrooms all over the country whether it be good or bad, and what people actually take from it. This movie does make a profound point, which is good because people need to learn these things because some people want to not educate people so they continue to think its right. We need to expose these types of things so racism and discrimination get called out and that they prove to society that it is wrong.
I don't recognize really any of those because im not the type to read and care about banned books. Books I Recognize: Scary stories, Of mice and Men, The Giver, To kill a mockingbird, Harry Potter, Fade. I feel okay about banning books because I frankly just don't care. If it teaches us something super important, then do not ban it. If it is just random, no reference, and stupid and/or inappropriate, then yes by all means ban it. I think they should watch and go through a process before just banning a book because the authors and whoever else wrote the book, put a lot of time and thought and money to write it and publish it.
To me it wasn't that historical or cool. It was just showing the writing process of how Twain thought and there was a lost chapter that was later used in a different book. To the Language and Author freaks, it might be a huge deal because they will go into depth on how it could have possibly changed the outcome of the book and what not. Its not that important because the book is tremendous the way it is, the original copy. I liked how he changed the first line three times because that's what starts off a historical book, but in the grand scheme of things, this is not a big deal at all. I feel strongly about the censorship regarding huck finn. I don't think the "n' word should be in there that many times, let alone at all. If they took the n word out, it would take away what the book is about in context, but what do we really favor here and what do we want to get across: Staying away from the strongest racial slur in American history, or getting across what the book was really about and teaching people what it was really like back then.
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