1. What is your response to the use of the N-Word in this book? Some argue that it’s necessary to maintain historical realism, while others argue that it’s demeaning and unnecessary. What is your response? Also, how should our class deal with this word, since it’s used throughout the book and we have to talk about the book?
Thesis: In today’s modern society it is unnecessary to be used in any book but we have to remember that it was published in the a few generations ago and is necessary for The N-word is used excessively in this book because the author Mark Twain is using it to maintain historical and regional realism.
Body main points: The N word is used to refer to slaves and black African Americans during that time and gives the book an originality of its time.
We have to remember that the N-word is a sensitive word and that we are only talking about the word for analytical and class purposes only.
The word is used real excessively, Mark Twain needed to include the word for his readers to have a subjective approach to the reading, and he wanted to open up new views about blacks during that time.
If anybody has any other points or assist me in any new info let me know please.
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Roger, I think it's a great thesis, and one that I want to hear more about. It's a good thesis because it's challenging the reader (me, for example) to look at the possibility that Twain was just writing a story, nothing more, nothing less, and we would have to take him at his word that he is simply using language that was authentic to the region at the time. For examples or evidence, you can use Twain's own words from his introduction to the novel, and I'm sure there's stuff to be pulled from the critical essays in our books that support the idea. This would especially ne true of the essayists who are offended by Twain's use of the word and people who are offended when the book is used in educational settings.
ReplyDeleteYour evidence is only going to come from outside of the book, in the form of other people writing about the book, which means you'll have to read essays about the book for supporting material.
At any rate, nice clear thesis, and an essay that looks like it will be fairly straight forward to produce.