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Originally Posted by Boomer

Many classics also appear on that famous list of banned books. (I hope Tal will find that list and link it for us. It is probably somewhere on the ALA site. I am on my iPad and still have not learned to link.)

Books that appear on the list of banned books are most often books than can get readers to THINK..........

For instance, Huck Finn is about right and wrong and friendship and Huck's true moral compass. Huck believes he will go to hell for helping Jim, the runaway slave. But Huck helps Jim anyway, even though he believes he is facing eternal damnation.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn gives the reader an opportunity to think about friendship and loyalty and questioning and soul-searching and decision-making and man's inhumanity to man and history and how character is revealed and a whole bunch of other stuff, but.......

Those self-righteous banners are always out to get Huck for that highly offensive word that is used repeatedly. Indeed, it is an offensive word, now, but in the 1800s it was just a part of the vernacular. When Huck uses the word in reference to his friend Jim, it is not a pejorative. The context of the word, of course, must clearly be addressed when introducing Huck to a class. In fact, such an intro can lead to excellent discussion about the power of words.

But I bet by now the banners have pretty much pounded Huck into high school English class history.

I wonder a lot about the true motivation of those so willing to ban Huck Finn......



PS: And nobody can write like Mark Twain. That man sure could turn a phrase.

Banned & Challenged Books This covers current banned books.


This covers books banned by various governments over the years-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...by_governments