Huck Finn

[ahhell]

How old should a child be before they are introduced to huck fin.

I basically feel like it should be when they can read it on their one but a parent should still read it too them?

More a question for folks from the US as its I think basically required reading for us. Probably the best introduction so racist ********** in a US context.

 

[Thermal]

...typos...so many typos...

 

[Brainster]

Unlike Tom Sawyer, it's not really a children's book, I'd say more appropriate for high schoolers.

 

[Apathia]

Not available in Floridian schools. It contains CRT, drag, and the N word.

 

[bruto]

I would basically agree that, since this is an adult book really, and a topic for interesting discussion and historical context, it would be best to leave it until a person is capable of reading it and understanding it. Whether a parent should read it to them anyway depends greatly, I think, on the child and the parent.

 

[Trebuchet]

Unlike Tom Sawyer, it's not really a children's book, I'd say more appropriate for high schoolers.

And only under intelligent adult guidance.

Not available in Floridian schools. It contains CRT, drag, and the N word.

Nothing wrong with the N-word in Florida schools. In fact, excluding it would be CRT!

 

[arthwollipot]

Never read it.

 

[Myriad]

I could read anything in print by the time I was in first grade. No one ever attempted to adult-guide me about what I read or when I read it. (Except in grade school, when I sometimes had to put my SF novels aside to study stories about talking rabbits so I could learn to read.)

A few people think I turned out okay anyhow.

 

[Trebuchet]

Never read it.

I did. Required reading in High School English. They also had me read "Catcher in the Rye". In 1960's Montana! I bet they aren't promoting such subversive reading now!

 

[arthwollipot]

I did. Required reading in High School English. They also had me read "Catcher in the Rye". In 1960's Montana! I bet they aren't promoting such subversive reading now!

My required reading was Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World by Mudooroo Nyoongah. I hated it.

 

[angrysoba]

Never read it.

This could be read in two ways.

 

[Carlotta]

Never read it.

Huck Finn is probably best read after Tom Sawyer. Unlike most required reading, they are really entertaining. I'm glad I wasn't required to read them. I've enjoyed them several times. You might like them.

 

[Olmstead]

If they enjoy reading it, they are old enough to read it.

If they don't, well, I don't see why it should be rammed down anyone's throat.

 

[arthwollipot]

Huck Finn is probably best read after Tom Sawyer. Unlike most required reading, they are really entertaining. I'm glad I wasn't required to read them. I've enjoyed them several times. You might like them.

I might, but probably not. I would not deny them their place in the body of literature, though. There's more to lit than just what I like.

 

[Carrot Flower King]

Huck Finn is probably best read after Tom Sawyer. Unlike most required reading, they are really entertaining. I'm glad I wasn't required to read them. I've enjoyed them several times. You might like them.

Yup, I read it after Sawyer and it is soooooo different. Both excellent and glad I read them as a child (well, teenager with Huck).

Oddly, I had no problem in working out that Twain was writing about a specific time and places...

 

[Skeptical Greg]

And only under intelligent adult guidance.

...

One man's intelligent adult guidance is another man's, well, you know..

 

[Brainster]

And only under intelligent adult guidance.

Interesting concept. Make it a book that students can't check out of the high school library on their own?

 

[theprestige]

Huckleberry Finn is the better book, but Tom Sawyer is the better song.

 

[ZirconBlue]

If they enjoy reading it, they are old enough to read it.

If they don't, well, I don't see why it should be rammed down anyone's throat.

Does this go for everything? Because many students don't appear to enjoy reading any books for school. Should they be excused from the entire curriculum?

 

[catsmate]

My required reading was Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World by Mudooroo Nyoongah. I hated it.

Have you tried Peig?