in fact, if you're going for a book to try to supposedly teach kid the potential terrible power of words - which is not the sole reason for teaching TKAM, obviously - choosing a book which reaches for the nuclear option, the N word (and i'm *not* suggesting that TKAM does that simply for the sake of it), would disarm such a lesson.
as in; if you want to teach someone the power of words, choose one where seemingly innocuous words gain a malign power.
not that i can think of such a book off the top of my head, of course, suitable for the JC cycle.
an aside, a chap i know *hates* the beano. when he was a kid, he was identified with that simpering character, walter the softy, and it became a verbal stick for other kids to beat him with, so to speak.
as in; if you want to teach someone the power of words, choose one where seemingly innocuous words gain a malign power.
not that i can think of such a book off the top of my head, of course, suitable for the JC cycle.
an aside, a chap i know *hates* the beano. when he was a kid, he was identified with that simpering character, walter the softy, and it became a verbal stick for other kids to beat him with, so to speak.