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 ...

This along with the racial stereotypes of Black people, to provide humor at the expense of Jim, has led some to argue that ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ is a racist book. However ...

The fog scene, in which Jim upbraids Huck for playing a cruel trick on him and elicits an apology, Fishkin points out, is a ...