Mark Twain, Introductory Note to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ernest Hemingway declared ... I heard that word or watched the class laugh at Jim. . . ." Champions of the novel reply that it ...

The fog scene, in which Jim upbraids Huck for playing a cruel trick on him and elicits an apology, Fishkin points out, is a rare moment in 19th century American fiction in which an enslaved Black man ...