{"id":28054,"date":"2025-03-27T20:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T00:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=28054"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:36:08","slug":"is-huckleberry-finn-good-because-of-the-rascism-i-dont-get-why-im-reading-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/03\/27\/is-huckleberry-finn-good-because-of-the-rascism-i-dont-get-why-im-reading-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Huckleberry Finn good because of the rascism? I don&#8217;t get why I&#8217;m reading it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AW032725-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AW032725-1.jpg\" alt=\"Is Huckleberry Finn good because of the rascism? I don't get why I'm reading it\" class=\"wp-image-28049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AW032725-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AW032725-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AW032725-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AW032725-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Is Huckleberry Finn good because of the rascism? I don&#8217;t get why I&#8217;m reading it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This happens quite a lot when we read things from the past. Ideas or words can reflect a previous time&#8217;s understanding and this if often different from our own. It can be very hard to read at times, but can also be important to understand the current moment, the past, and how we got to where we are now. All of this doesn&#8217;t make the racism in Huckleberry Finn good. But this question sounds like it might start a good class discussion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This happens quite a lot when we read things from the past. Ideas or words can reflect a previous time&#8217;s understanding and this if often different from our own. It can be very hard to read at times, but can also be important to understand the current moment, the past, and how we got to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/03\/27\/is-huckleberry-finn-good-because-of-the-rascism-i-dont-get-why-im-reading-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Huckleberry Finn good because of the rascism? I don&#8217;t get why I&#8217;m reading it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28067,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28054\/revisions\/28067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}