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Originally Posted by AzTheta
"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks." ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 23, spoken by the character Scout.
Harper Lee, when she used racial perjoratives, did a masterful job of carrying emotion in the words. It was much more shocking, which was, I believe, the intended effect.
It is, IMO, all in the context. I slogged through Huckleberry Finn in HS and frankly, I think Twain wrote some better works. The man WAS funny, but this isn't about Twain, I don't think...
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I agree, and I think that HF uses it so much it's kind of.. numbing maybe? Which I really think defeats the purpose.
This is also random, but did everyone read A Modest Proposal in school? It's an example of a skilled humorist writing something that lays out exactly what the English thought of the Irish in a way that modern readers can actually understand I think.