Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Difference between revisions

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Ben Rogers: Ransomed? What's that?

Tom: I don't know. But that's what they do. }}

* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]: The book is scathingly anti-slavery, but is often banned from schools for supposed racial ~~insensitivity--it~~ has the n-word in it. In response to [[New South]] Books' plans to release an edition that replaces Twain's many uses of Nigger with the word "slave", there are plans to replace the word N-Word [http://io9.com/#!5762499/a-campaign-to-replace-the-n+word-in-huckleberry-finn-with-the-word-robot with the word Robot] Do see above for [[Fair for Its Day]], though.

* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]: The book is scathingly anti-slavery, but is often banned from schools for supposed racial insensitivity—it has the n-word in it. In response to [[New South]] Books' plans to release an edition that replaces Twain's many uses of Nigger with the word "slave", there are plans to replace the word N-Word [http://io9.com/#!5762499/a-campaign-to-replace-the-n+word-in-huckleberry-finn-with-the-word-robot with the word Robot] Do see above for [[Fair for Its Day]], though.

* [[Punny Name]]: A "granger" is a cattle rancher; cattle ranchers and sheepherders were old rivals in the 1800s, thus the Grangerfords and Shepardsons don't get along.

* [[Rule of Cool]]: Parodied to pieces by Tom's plan to free Jim, which could be done simply and quickly, but Tom insists on engineering around the [[Rule of Cool]]. {{spoiler|It goes badly.}}

* [[The Runaway]]: Huck's escape from his [[Abusive Parents|alcoholic father]] sets up the rest of the plot.

* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: Huck helps the fugitive slave Jim escape from being sold back into slavery even though he is told (and he believes!) he would go to hell for such actions.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Tom models his adventures on the stories he's read. The careful reader can identify the specific stories even when he doesn't mention the ~~titles--for~~ example, "Why, look at [[The Count of Monte Cristo (novel)|one of them prisoners in the bottom dungeon of the Castle Deef, in the harbor of Marseilles, that dug himself out that way]]."

* [[Shout-Out]]: Tom models his adventures on the stories he's read. The careful reader can identify the specific stories even when he doesn't mention the titles—for example, "Why, look at [[The Count of Monte Cristo (novel)|one of them prisoners in the bottom dungeon of the Castle Deef, in the harbor of Marseilles, that dug himself out that way]]."

* [[Snake Oil Salesman]]: The Duke and the Dauphin are this and just about every other kind of [[Con Man]], except maybe the Competent sort.

* [[Spotting the Thread]]: