I’ve been posting books I read with my daughter Audrey on another page of this website .
We started “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” several days ago. I’d never read it before. We were making good progress up until page 62, where I came upon the following:
“Who told you so?”
“Why, he told Jeff Thatcher, and Jeff told Jonny Baker, and Jonny told Jim Hollis, and Jim told Ben Rogers, and Ben told a nigger, and the nigger told me. There now!”
“Well, what of it? They’ll all lie. Leastways all but the nigger. I don’t know him. But I never see a nigger that wouldn’t lie …”
I skipped over this part and continued for a moment, but then stopped. I just could not get past these horrible words and feel right about reading this book to my little girl.
Is this wrong? Part of me thinks yes and part of me isn’t so sure. I don’t want to in any way endorse this thinking, or even expose my daughter to it at such a young age (7).
Is this book worthwhile anyway? What would you suggest I do? Thanks.
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