"To Kill a Mockingbird" RLS questions

1. The string emotions are derived from the reasoning that racial slurs are 'inappropriate' regardless of context for a person of a different race. Great uproar, from both sides, is consequence to the reasoning behind allowing children to read such slurs in great depth. It is assumed that they may feel uncomfortable due to the connotation behind the word or may sue the word as an insult towards others. On the other hand, emotion makes it feel necessary to keep the book with the reasoning being that it is classic literature. And so reasoning is effectively derived from emotions.

2.  - "To Kill a Mockingbird" was removed from the public district in Biloxi, Mississippi
     - "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a 1960 literature classic
     - The n-word appears nearly 50 plus times throughout :Mockingbird"
     - The novel won it's author a Pulitzer for Fiction
     - The school board of Hanover County, Va., banned the book as "immoral literature" in 1966                  because the plot centered around rape
     - Racial slurs are offensive and make a certain demographic grossly uncomfortable

3. It shows the effect one's background can have on the understanding and interpretation of the word. Many people consider it art for the same reasons others deem it unnaceptable

4. To what extent does background and context play into one's understanding of a topic?

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