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The original Huck Finn is not about slavery; it’s not about race. This is a story about an abused kid looking for a safe haven.

— Tim DeRoche

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Huck undergoes a change in Twain’s original in terms of how he sees the slave Jim, and Huck undergoes a similar change in this book.

The core belief driving our work is so simple that it might sound radical. Even the best and most coveted public schools should be open and accessible to all families.

I started thinking of Huck Finn as a protoypical American myth.

By carving up our cities into attendance zones, we are perpetuating the economic and racial divisions that marked one of the darkest eras of our nation’s past.

A Fine Line (2020)

It was an incredibly fun experience to try an inhabit that voice and try to get into Huck’s head and see Los Angeles from the point-of-view of this naive kid from backwoods Missouri.

The Ballad of Huck and Miguel': Tim DeRoche and Daniel Gonzalez reimagine a classic (2018)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

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The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

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