• Blog – At the end of Ch. 23 Jim tells as story about his daughter. What is significant in that story and what does it reveal about Jim?
At the end of chapter 23 Jim tells a story about his daughter. In his story Jim tells Huck that his daughter Lizabeth, who was around four years old, did not follow Jim’s orders. He then tells Huck that he feels guilty about the way he had treated her, because it wasn’t until he had struck her that he realized that she was deaf. The fact that Jim is telling this story to Huck shows that this incident as haunted him ever since. To Huck, this story shows him that blacks can possibly love their families as much as whites love theirs. Other whites in society do not believe that blacks are as capable of such strong emotions as whites are.
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I like your response Michael. I never thought about how this story shows how blacks can love their family just as much as whites. In my blog I speculated that Jim had so much emotion in him that he had to release it somehow.
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