Nichols, A TRUE BOOK -- WITH SOME STRETCHERS: HUCK FINN TODAY
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Reviews Charles Nichols' book, which examines Mark Twain's classic novel HUCK FINN for the lessons it has to teach us today.... More...
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Paper Abstract:
Reviews Charles Nichols' book, which examines Mark Twain's classic novel HUCK FINN for the lessons it has to teach us today.
Paper Introduction:
Charles H. Nichols in his essay "'A True Book--With Some Stretchers': Huck Finn Today" analyzes the book for what it says to us today. He notes the fact that there has been controversy surrounding the novel of late because it represents the nineteenth century and certain nineteenth-century attitudes about race, including the use of en epithet for blacks that is now seen as demeaning. Those who focus on this word and not on the context are missing the real nature of the book, and Nichols is right in noting this. He is also right in finding ways in which the book tries to depict several different levels of the society of the time and to show how they differ from one another while also finding ways in which they reflect certain underlying attitudes that might be seen as defining America.
One of the attitudes most criticized by Twain is the tende
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