Play Book Tag discussion

Shouldn't have re-read this.
It was a favourite when I was a stupid child but as an adult I just can't get past the racism. When I was a child it was the adventure which captured my attention and I loved it.
As an adult it is the slavery and a man and his family being sold to separate white families being perfectly OK. A white child thinking it is wrong for the man to want to take his kids back because they are the property of someone else. A man being blamed for murder for no reason other than he is black. The frequent use of the word "nigger".
Nope the re-read has spoilt the memory of what I thought was a great book. I know it was a different time but I can't get past it.

I understand your sentiments - I feel the same way, which is why, although I enjoyed this as child I hesitated last year to re-read it.

Yes, I can't reread this because I know that it will spoil it for me even if it was very realistic to the times.

Glad you are both smarter than I was!

Many years ago, my dad made "Books on Tape" for my kids. He would read books and stories and record them and then mail them to my boys. They loved them! He told me he was going to read Huck Finn but didn't for just these reasons. It was not just the adventure story that he remembered.

Jen wrote: "Glad you are both smarter than I was!"

Only because I reread Tom Sawyer when my kids were young and this probably came up on my former homeschool forum.

I reread Tom Sawyer either last year or the year before.....don't remember the racism being quite as bad, bad but not as bad. Perhaps I wasn't so sensitive about it last year. This year most of my loyal friends who have stuck by me through a rubbish year are Aboriginal or Pacific Islander and the idea of them being treated like this if they had been born then just makes me sick.

Jen wrote: "I reread Tom Sawyer either last year or the year before.....don't remember the racism being quite as bad, bad but not as bad. Perhaps I wasn't so sensitive about it last year. This year most of my ..."

It's not as bad, of course, due to the nature of the story :)

Karin wrote: "Jen wrote: "I reread Tom Sawyer either last year or the year before.....don't remember the racism being quite as bad, bad but not as bad. Perhaps I wasn't so sensitive about it last year. This year..."

Good I'm glad about that....thought I might have been really insensitive last year there for a bit but can't ever remember accepting racism easily.