Let me take a pause in my reviewing to discuss an author I have a love hate relationship with. Mark Twain.
First of all I will say this; There is a lot of controversy around this man and whether his books are appropriate for school, or people in general. I am one who believes he is appropriate. It is through the honest truth that he shows just how horrific slavery was as well as demonstrate how if children are raised with racist parents they see it as the norm until otherwise directed. Very Sad. Huck Finn thought he was going to hell for defending an African American. That was a very powerful symbol.
Anyways, how it ruined my life.
So I had recently been on a long car trip (30 hours in 3 days) in which I was alone the whole time and became a close friend with audio books. They made the time fly and kept me alert and able to focus on the road. However, I had not finished The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn upon arriving back home and had it on my iPod in my purse. I was hanging out one night with my friend and her husband who is African American and they had not heard a particular song I happened to have on my iPod. I offer to let them listen via my iPod so we plugged it in to their cars stereo and unbeknownst to me doing so resumes the playing of the last thing I had been listening too: Huckleberry Finn. . . and the first sentence had the N word. Multiple times. And it took me a good 4 or 5 sentences to figure out that I have no idea how to work my iPod and should just unplug it and throw it across the car. Unfortunately neither had read the book. Out of context much?
That took some explaining.
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