Okay, so I just spent the last three hours in a seminar class discussing Mark Twain's Huck Finn. I'd read the book before, and I entered the classroom discussion thinking that everyone in the class had probably read the book before too. (I assumed that everyone probably read it in high school just as I read it in high school. I thought Huck Finn was considered standard reading in most Kansas high schools.) I was quite surprised by the nature of the discussion simply because we spent most of the class talking about the elements and debates surrounding the text rather than the text itself. Well, I guess that's a common trend in contemporary academia....
So the questions for the readers (if there are any readers out there): Have you read Huck Finn and, if so, when? (And watching the movie--though it may have gotten you through your high school English class--doesn't count here.)
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I read Huck Finn as a sophomore in highschool. Although I didn't much care for school at the time, I rather enjoyed huck Finn. Interesting teacher as well--Mr. Ford. There was a story that one year someone slipped LSD into his coffee. Come to think of it, that was one of my favorite high school English classes. We also read The Crucible and The Great Gatsby in that class.
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