Jim

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Role:

1) A Slave

2) A Friend

3) A Parent

4) A Brother

5) Main Character

JIM

Why Did Twain Created Jim

Background

My Understanding: Twain created Jim because Jim is the character that contains Twain's message: "A Black Man and a White Man can be friends as long as they choose to"

Jim:

- A African American Slave

- A 50 year old man that lost his wife and kids due to slavery

- Has poor education, very superstitious, ignorant, great friend with Huk and a loving heart.

- Has a high self-esteem

Internet Interpretation: Throughout the novel, Mark Twain both reinforces and disputes racist stereotypes. Jim is portrayed as a genuine yet unsophisticated character. Twain represents Jim as a paternal figure who maintains his integrity as being one of the only sincere characters of the novel, although Twain contrasts this quality with stereotypes typical of an uneducated slave during the American slave era. Though he is a stoic character, Jim is able to span the entire novel as a father figure who protects Huck both physically and emotionally and, even after Huck plays tricks on him, forgives Huck and continues to protect him. Racist stereotypes are reinforced when Jim's simple nature is revealed in various parts throughout the novel. Jim's gullibility and his language relay the stereotypes of the antebellum south that blacks were somehow not people and were much lower than whites. (http://voices.yahoo.com/representing-jim-huckleberry-finn-891645.html?cat=38)

Without Jim in the Novel

Beginning

Middle

“I set there behind a clump of bushes in about six foot of him, and kept my eyes on him steady. It was getting gray daylight now. Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim! I bet I was glad to see him” (41)

If Jim was deleted out of this scene Huk would never discover the feeling of being happy to see someone he admired. Jim plays the mighty role of helping Huk develop the emotion of having a friend.

Concluding Development

“Why de fog. De fog dat’s ben aroun’ all night. En didn’t you whoop, en didn’t I whoop, tell we got mix’ up in de islands en one un us got los’ en t’other one was jis’ as good as los’, ‘kase he didn’ know whah he wuz? En didn’t I bust up agin a lot er dem islands en have a terrible time en mos’ git drownded? Now ain’ dat so boss—ain’t it so? You answer me dat.” (85)

In this scene Jim is portray as a motherly character because he tells Huk that he was worry and scare for him. If Jim was not in this scene Huk would never understand the parenting love because his father was a drunk and his mother was not there. Jim was the replacement for Huk’s parents.

Jim Slow Development

"Jim, this is nice," I says. "I wouldn't want to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along another hunk of fish and some hot corn-bread." (49)

With Jim In the Beginning

"Well, den, dis is de way it look to me, Huck. Ef it wuz HIM dat 'uz bein' sot free, en one er de boys wuz to git shot, would he say, 'Go on en save me, nemmine 'bout a doctor f'r to save dis one?' Is dat like Mars Tom Sawyer? Would he say dat? You BET he wouldn't! WELL, den, is JIM gywne to say it? No, sah – I doan' budge a step out'n dis place 'dout a DOCTOR, not if it's forty year!" (276)

Miss Watson’s big nigger, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door; we could see him pretty clear, because there was a light behind him. (4)

Jim in the beginning is described as a regular slave that works for a wealthy mistress. He is disrespected and classify as an item. This begin the slave story.

Conclusion

Jim starts developing as a motherly figure for Huk. Jim takes care of young Huk by providing food and shelter. This develop lead to Huk confusion of slavery.

It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: "All right, then, I'll GO to hell" – and tore it up.” (215)

Jim, Huck, and Tom become great friends in the end of the novel. Jim risks his freedom to protect Tom who was in danger. This friendship concluded the slave story because of the friendship between the white boys and the black boy.

Huck had to choose between his moral beliefs or his friendship. His moral belief was to turn in Jim while his friendship was too protect Jim. Huck had to ask himself what was more important. In this scene Jim serve as the light for Huk to realize the person he is. Huk value his friendship more than his belief which makes him a loyal friend. Without Jim, Huk would never understand his value or moral beliefs.

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What would it be like to see the novel through Jim’s eyes? How would the story change and how would the message change?

Jim The Narrator

Moral

Belief

“And his Aunt Polly she said Tom was right about old Miss Watson setting Jim free in her will; and so, sure enough, Tom Sawyer had gone and took all that trouble and bother to set a free nigger free! and I couldn't ever understand before, until that minute and that talk, how he COULD help a body set a nigger free with his bringing-up.” (291)

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Family

If Jim was in this situation of confusing, Jim would never have trouble thinking about freeing a slave man because Jim was once in slavery. Jim would report to the slave and tell him/her that their master have sent them free. Huk on the other hand hid the secret. Jim would be loyal to his friends and help them achieve their goals.

“And then when I went up to bed she come up with me and fetched her candle, and tucked me in, and mothered me so good I felt mean, and like I couldn't look her in the face; and she set down on the bed and talked with me a long time, and said what a splendid boy Sid was, and didn't seem to want to ever stop talking about him; and kept asking me every now and then if I reckoned he could a got lost, or hurt, or maybe drownded, and might be laying at this minute somewheres suffering or dead, and she not by him to help him, and so the tears would drip down silent, and I would tell her that Sid was all right, and would be home in the morning, sure; and she would squeeze my hand, or maybe kiss me, and tell me to say it again, and keep on saying it, because it done her good, and she was in so much trouble. And when she was going away she looked down in my eyes so steady and gentle, and says” (283)

Jim would be grateful to have Aunt Sally taking care of him because he had no one. Jim would also worry about Sid, but he wouldn’t worry much because Sid was a white male. Jim will be able to support poor Aunt Sally who is broken down because of poor Sid due to the fact that Jim had a family. Jim has a soft heart that cares for people especially those who are in need. Jim understands the need of people especially when they lose a dear one.

Religion

Friendship

“After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.” (2)

"I got hurt a little, en couldn't swim fas', so I wuz a considable ways behine you towards de las'; when you landed I reck'ned I could ketch up wid you on de lan' 'dout havin' to shout at you, but when I see dat house I begin to go slow. I 'uz off too fur to hear what dey say to you I wuz 'fraid o' de dogs; but when it 'uz all quiet agin I knowed you's in de house, so I struck out for de woods to wait for day. Early in de mawnin' some er de niggers come along, gwyne to de fields, en dey tuk me en showed me dis place, whah de dogs can't track me on accounts o' de water, en dey brings me truck to eat every night, en tells me how you's a-gitt'n along." (112)

Race

Jim would appreciate the learning of religion because he is a superstitious person. He believe in witches and bad spirits. Jim would been better off learning this than Huk because Huk is ignorant. This would have boost Jim religion beliefs.

“It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn't come. Why wouldn't they? It warn't no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from ME, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart warn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double. I was letting ON to give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. I was trying to make my mouth SAY I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that nigger's owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie – I found that out.” (214)

In this scene Huk was trying to save himself while forgetting about Jim. In Jim eyes he will be looking for Huk and trying to rescue him because Jim has a pure Heart. Jim is a loyal friend to Huk which means he thinks about Huk safety before his own. Jim acts correctly depending on the situation even though Huk is educated while Jim is not, Jim has a better understanding of life and hardship. Huk swam to the house while Jim went to the woods.

In Jim eyes he would not pray and doubt himself. Jim will still move forward trying to free a Slave because Jim believed slavery was cruel and wrong. Jim wouldn’t try to turn in his pal even if he had a moral dispute between himself. Jim would be square and have a right heart because he contains a pure caring heart for the needed.

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If the novel was being narrated through Jim the Novel will change but not significantly because there will still be the same events but instead of having, "Jim said," it'll be, "I said." There might also be some bias towards the whites because the novel is being read through a slave point of view. The novel will become a slave narrative.

What would it be like to see the novel through Jim’s eyes? How would the story change and how would the message change?

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The story will change to a Slave Perspective, which means that the novel will be written in Jim education level because it is through Jim point of view

The message of the Novel will not change because Mark Twain wrote the Novel to illustrate the problems that USA had during this time period. The message will stay as "A White Male can still befriend with a Black Male if they chooses to."

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By: ICE Vue

11/19/2012

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