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- anukinOne of my fondest childhood memory is reading sawyer and huck. The rural setting was similar to the ones we had in Kerala, India growing up.It was an old copy and was not censored and included all the racial slurs. It took me years before knowing that the words used were racial slurs as those words were not in common usage in India.
- emmelaichThe passage where Tom goes to whitewash the fence is brilliant.https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/mark-twain/tom-sawyer#:~:text=T...Relatable to any kids forced to do chores.
- madroxTo the article's point, I grew up in the 80s. Even though I lived a different life from Tom and Huck it wasn't so different that I couldn't relate to it. I wonder how many more generations we can go before that's all gone, or if it already has. There's still a lot of value in it as a work of literature, but I don't know if it has the same intuitive understanding it had in the 20th century.I don't think that's a bad thing. We shouldn't put the past on a pedestal, but it makes me wonder who the Tom Sawyer of the 21st century is. I just hope it isn't Katniss Everdeen or Edward Cullen.
- reliabilityguyFirst book I've ever read start to finish when I was in school. I remember that we've read a chapter a day in class, each one couple lines until the chapter was done.
- fussloHighly recommend Mark Twain biography by Ron Chernow. I just finished it last week. Samuel Clemens' evolution from where he started to where he finished is something to be admired (just ignore his thoughts on Native Americans, how he treated his children, and his angelfish obsession).
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- cyberaxAh, brings back memories. We did a New Year's school theater presentation in the third grade, playing out the "painting the fence" scene from the book.In English, which is NOT my native language. I had to memorize my lines without understanding half of them :)