Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Identity of Jim in lThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finnr from the Postcolonial Perspective

“…When Huck couldn't find a reason to refute Jim's words, he said that Jim was unreasonable," It was useless to talk to him -like to teach a black man something, there is no way to do that." [5] We see Huck is consciously felt superior to Jim. Huck accepted white people education and had a "civilized" face, he can not understand Jim's reasoning, although he knew that Jim had practical common sense, Huck still insisted on the standards of his surrounding environmenthe could not let the right to speak fall into black hands [6].…”

“…In the days that followed, Jim told Huck that when he saw the bird fly away, he predicted that there was heavy rain, and playing with the snakeskin would bring bad things... Jim's superstition was the same as what he counted, they all came into reality one by one. [5] Looking at the full text, superstition is full of Jim's mind, regardless of the difficulties he and Huck will encounter, he can justify himself from the view of superstition. However, the realization of superstition is not a ridiculous coincidence; it is the life experiences that Jim has accumulated as a black and after year-round production labor.…”

“…Instead, he treated him as his best friend and took care of him when they were drifting on the big river; When Tom was shot and wounded, he ignored his own safety and stayed in a dangerous area to assist doctors to rescue him. Jim deeply missed his wife and daughter, when he mentioned that he had slapped his four-year-old daughter in an angry manner, he said that he would never forgive himself for treating a poor deaf child so cruelly [5] ... Jim is simple, kind, honest, sincere, with rich spiritual world and the excellent quality of self-sacrifice, but the white people do not value him for his outstanding qualities, they judge him only from the perspective of skin color and believe he was in a low status, so he was meant to be white people's servant. Under slavery system, black people were merely white people's property.…”

“The World Loves an Underdog,” or the Continuing Appeal of the Adolescent Rebel Narrative: A Comparative Reading of Vernon God Little, The Catcher in the Rye and Huckleberry Finn

“…10 However, the early calls for the novel's proscription from public libraries and schools on account of its inappropriate language and "bad grammar" have long been subsumed within a more focussed debate: "Now the issue is racism," as Thomas Cooley (Twain, 1999(Twain, /1884 These counter-proposals -one of which is Vernon God Little -can all "readily be subsumed under the genre category of 'boyhood narratives'," though, according to the author, they are "equally suitable for mixed-gender classrooms" (Nieragden, 2010, p. 568).…”

A Study of the Influence of Afro-American Culture on Anglo-American Fiction

“…Double negatives can be frequently found in Huck's speech, for instance, "I didn't want to see him no more … But I couldn't see no profit in it." (Twain, 1981) Although Huck's speech obviously exhibits many features of black dialect, this is not to imply that Mark Twain relies totally on Black English to delineate characters. Due to the frequent contact with black people from childhood to adulthood, Mark Twain was more likely to endue Huck's speech with some elements of black dialect in a subconscious level.…”