1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

2.  Accepted practice  The way you were raised  The proper way of life  You were either a slave or a slave owner  No say in being sold  Slaves usually helped other slaves

3.  Huck and Jim got separated after their raft was hit by a steamboat.  Huck found a house that was owned by the Grangerfords  They gave him a slave, Jack.  Jack showed him where Jim was hiding.

4.  Jim was locked up and Nat, a slave, had responsibility to feed him.  Nat got the key from Uncle Silas.  Unusual for a slave to have that job.

5.  Tom and Huck used Nat’s beliefs in supernatural events to help Jim.  Common to use slaves beliefs to take advantage of them.

6.  Raised with the thought that he is better that slaves.  Through Jim’s influence on the raft, Huck begins to think of slaves as, in a way, almost equal to him.

7.  Huck’s conscience starts getting to him about Jim.  He still protects Jim several times by lying to people about who Jim is.

8.  Huck finds out that Jim had been sold, so he writes to Miss Watson to tell her where Jim is.  Huck tore the letter up because he remembered all the things that Jim had done for him.  Felt like he was betraying a friend.

9.  Finds Jim locked up in hut.  Decides to set Jim free.  Receives help from Tom Sawyer.

10.  Rocky Mountain News  Liked the book  Thought it was funny.  Great source of entertainment

11.  “…overflows with wit and humor….abounds in startling incidents and hair-breadth escapes.”  “….written in Twain's peculiar and fascinating style..will hold the reader spell-bound…”

12.  Brooks Critique  Thought that Huck’s character was a representation of Mark Twain’s childhood.  Thought that it was bad for children.  Thought only that mature adults should read it.  Liked the book regardless

13.  “…the character of Huck, the disreputable illiterate boy, as Mrs. Clemens no doubt thought him, he licensed to let himself go….”  “…must have had a certain sense of his unusual security when he wrote some of the more cynically satirical passages of the book…..”

14.  Geismar Critique  Thought Twain used lovely and appropriate language.  Greatest work that Twain had done yet.  Thought it was for entertainment.  Good for children

15.  “…accepting these modern strictures, it was lovely language that Mark Twain fashioned to carry along the exuberant, lyrical, touching, entertaining and………….”  “This is a deadpan, double-edged social satire which is brilliantly entertaining and acute.”

16.  Want to change the ‘N’ word to slave and ‘injuns’ to Indians.  They feel that those words are hurtful to the blacks  Not everyone agrees with this change.

17.  “…condemned Huck as "trash and only suitable for the slums…..”  ……refuse to teach the unexpurgated text…..

18.  Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The NewSouth Edition.  Written by Alan Gribben

19.  http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=72 17198n http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=72 17198n

20.  Will be made politically correct  Already has with the publication of the "Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The NewSouth Edition“ written by Alan Gribben.  Since it has started with Huckleberry Finn, it will continue with other classic books until all the books that have controversy in them are changed.

21.  Classical texts need to be left alone.  Needs to be this way because if you change anything in a book, it changes the entire meaning of the book.  Having these words show readers history and culture that was at the time that the classical book was written.

22.  Classical texts left alone (continued)  This books were not written to be politically correct.  Written for entertainment not to provoke controversy.

23.  Brooks, Van Wyck. 1968. 19 April 2011.  Falmanac: The Fallston Almanac of American History. 29 December 2010. 19 April 2011.  Geismar, Maxwell. Mark Twain: An American Prophet. January 1970. 19 April 2011  Inc., New South. Mark Twain’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The NewSouth Edition. 24 April 2011.  News, ABC. The Latest Word From Huck Finn. 4 January 2011. 24 April 2011.  News, CBS. Huckleberry Finn Censored. 5 January 2011. 24 April 2011.  Platenburg, Gheni. New version of 'Huck Finn' eliminates the 'N' -word. 17 April 2011. 24 April 2011.  The Rocky Mountain News. 22 March 1885. 19 April 2011.  Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The. Evanston, Illinois: McDougal Littell, 1997.  Watering Down Huck Finn. 5 January 2011. 24 April 2011.