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14800321 No.14800321 [Reply] [Original]

Why does he use the n-word so much? Perhaps more importantly, why do teachers feel the need to use this clearly outdated book?

>> No.14800331

>>14800321
He wasn't racist, though.

>> No.14800365

>>14800321
Is this the n-word as literature thread because I want some clarification on this one I read in Ulysses
>She wore a coquettish little love of a hat of wideleaved nigger straw contrast trimmed with an underbrim of eggblue chenille and at the side a butterfly bow to tone.

>> No.14800587

>"SOLD him?" I says, and begun to cry; "why, he was MY nigger, and that was my money. Where is he?—I want my nigger."

>> No.14800633

"It warn't the grounding—that didn't keep us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder-head."

"Good gracious! anybody hurt?"

"No'm. Killed a nigger."

"Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt.

>> No.14800696

Well, I let go all holts then, like I was shot. It was the most astonishing speech I ever heard—and I'm bound to say Tom Sawyer fell considerable in my estimation. Only I couldn't believe it. Tom Sawyer a NIGGER-STEALER!

>> No.14801344

It's mainly the time period it's written in but if you're looking at huck finn the whole book was centered about blurring the lines of race, the usage of the word nowadays is seen more as an ironic attribute of that work.

>> No.14801354

>>14800321
Realism? What makes a book outdated? I think we need to come to a conclusion on that before we can answer your second question.

>> No.14801444

>>14800321
You’re right! You know how his books are in a first person narrative? So I was thinking why not turn Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn into a couple of black kids!