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which has always bothered me that they did that because he wasn't a slave
and it totally undercuts the whole point of Huck's transformation from seeing Jim as less than fully human to getting it. Sheesh!
I love that they completely miss an opportunity to teach how the language used in books changes as society changes. We had quite an old book in school, can't quite recall the title, about two kids who get stranded in the outback with an aboriginal boy. They refer to him as 'darkie' all the way through which, from the beginning, my English teacher made clear she wasn't happy with but, when the book was written it was appropriate etc.
I remember when I was in the sixth grade we read The Cay, and for some reason the audio book (which we listened to a part of) edited out every time Timothy addressed Phillip as "young bahss." Which was a significant aspect of his character. Our teacher made it pretty clear that because of the time period the book took place in, it made sense for Timothy to address Phillip in this way, as a superior in a way, despite the fact that Phillip was only a child and Timothy was a full-grown man. But for they still edited it out of the audiobook because it could be considered too racially insensitive.
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and it totally undercuts the whole point of Huck's transformation from seeing Jim as less than fully human to getting it. Sheesh!
I love that they completely miss an opportunity to teach how the language used in books changes as society changes. We had quite an old book in school, can't quite recall the title, about two kids who get stranded in the outback with an aboriginal boy. They refer to him as 'darkie' all the way through which, from the beginning, my English teacher made clear she wasn't happy with but, when the book was written it was appropriate etc.
I remember when I was in the sixth grade we read The Cay, and for some reason the audio book (which we listened to a part of) edited out every time Timothy addressed Phillip as "young bahss." Which was a significant aspect of his character. Our teacher made it pretty clear that because of the time period the book took place in, it made sense for Timothy to address Phillip in this way, as a superior in a way, despite the fact that Phillip was only a child and Timothy was a full-grown man. But for they still edited it out of the audiobook because it could be considered too racially insensitive.
