Friday, January 14, 2011

Censorship: Huckleberry Finn

The cartoon above is supposed to show how censorship should not be used, in this case in the book "Huckleberry Finn", because it is an attempt to sugar-coat the reality of the time. The N-word that is all throughout the book is representative of how African Americans were disrespected. There still was no true equality, and African Americans were still slaves. The first cartoon is saying that even Jim, an African American, thinks that censorship is a bad thing.
The cartoon to the right is showing how in this present day the book has been censored. People should not try to cover up the speech used in the book. What happened cannot be changed, so the book's message and words should not either.

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