Her finder du Studienets study guide til den vejledende skriftlige eksamen i Engelsk A med netadgang fra 28. maj 2014. Teksten, som skal analyseres, er "Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You" af Michiko Kakutani.
Opgaveformuleringen lød:
Write an analytical essay (800-1200 words) in which you analyse Michiko Kakutani's article “Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You” and discuss the issue of censorship of classic literature.
Part of your essay must focus on how Kakutani argues for her views and on her style of writing.
In your essay you must include references to:
- Michiko Kakutani's article The CBS News clip
- “Huckleberry Finn and the N-word debate”
- 1-2 other internet sources
All sources must be documented.
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Præsentation af teksten
Titel: “Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You”
Forfatter: Michiko Kakutani
Genre: Artikel (2011)
Michiko Kakutani (f. 1995) er en amerikansk-japansk litteraturkritiker, som arbejder for The New York Times. Hun startede sin karriere som reporter for The Washington Post og har gradvist bevæget sig hen til at arbejde med litterære anmeldelser. Hun er blevet tildelt Pulitzer Prisen.
Uddrag
Her giver vi dig en prøve på webbogens indhold:
Huckleberry Finn and the N-word debate
“Huckleberry Finn and the N-word debate” is a video from the CBS News show 60 minutes, published in 2011.
In the video, the anchor, Byron Pitts, interviews various people on the topic of the new edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn targeting schools that have removed the book from the curriculum because of Mark Twain’s use of an offensive word — ‘nigger’.
Byron Pitts states that Mark Twain’s book has been censored and banned ever since it was published and that the trend continues today. He discusses the new version of the book with Randall Williams, one of the owners of the publishing house that issued the revised version of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In this version, the word ‘nigger’ was replaced with the word ‘slave’.
