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Thread #157696   Message #3723604
Posted By: Lighter
14-Jul-15 - 03:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Atticus Finch - Racist???
Subject: RE: BS: Atticus Finch - Racist???
Several talking heads on TV explaining what a disaster this is for our children, how Atticus (of TKAM) is no longer a hero, blah blah blah blah.

A book reviewer asserts for no reason I can fathom that from now on, any teacher who wants students to read TKAM will *have to* tell them about the "other Atticus."

You know, the other imaginary one in a different novel written years earlier, superseded by TKAM, and apparently so bad it couldn't be published till now.

I wonder how Huckleberry Finn is doing these days. (Remember, he used the N-word a lot.)