Brendan Cosgrove
Reading Huckleberry Finn through the historical and biographical lens, there was one thing that caught my interest. Mark Twain intended for his book to be read in quite a different way than how we as highschoolers in 2015 read it. In his time Twain was practically a liberal visionary in his inclusion and depiction of a black character. However, today we see none of that and only the racist undertones still present in his writing. Though hailed as a progressive in his time and for many years after, Twain's view have again been relegated to the racist past. It makes me wonder whether one day we will look back on the views of today with the same repulsion, and if that were the case, in what way the public view will have. shifted.
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