Alternative Assignment

I believe that the video for the alternate assignment is very interesting. However, I think that Huckleberry Finn is a great piece of literature that reflects greatly on the time period it was written. Although nigger may be an offensive term in today's era, back when the book was written it was the acceptable term. I believe that the commentator is correct when saying that slave is a job title and isn't a description of a person's ethnicity. By changing the word nigger to slave the essence of the book will be changed and it'll lose its' relevance to why it was written. Just because words inside Huckleberry Finn is offensive does not mean that we should change it. If this is the case then Catcher in the Rye should be taken off the shelves of all book stores because of the offensive manner it contains. Mark Twain used certain words and descriptions in order to make his book relevant and to build a great story that teaches life lessons.