I find myself agreeing with Alexandra Petri about removing the n-word from Huckleberry Finn. I feel that without it the book lost some of the value that it originally had. So it was important to me that I when I got my copy of Huckleberry Finn that the n-word was not removed from it. Of course, when I first read the n-word it was difficult for me to just glance over it. I can see that the n-word is often non-aggressive. Like in chapter 14 when Huck is telling Jim about the way French people talk and Jim is arguing about why they don't, "talk like a man" and the n-word is used in the saying, "you can't learn a nigger to argue". The use of the n-word also shows me how ingrained it was in society at that time because it is used so often and so
