Summary

The article “Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You” by Michiko Kakutani reviews a new edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, adapted and edited by Alan Gribben.

In the new edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Alan Gribben has replaced the word ‘nigger’ with the word ‘slave', to make the book politically correct and more acceptable to educational institutions.

In the same way, John Foley wrote an article in 2009, in which he advocated for removing certain books from the school curricula because they are too offensive to African-Americans. He believed that it was time for this to happen because Barak Obama, an African-American, had just been elected US President.

The author of the article argues that such efforts to clean books of potentially offensive language is wrong. She claims that authors’ choice of language should be respected and that b...