Jim

1. Do you think Jim rarely speaks out? Why or why not?

2.Why does she think Huck must have a character of a reconstructing southerner?

3.why does Jim stay with Huck? What does this show you about his character?

4. Do you think Tom affects Jim and Huck's relationship.

5. How would you view Jim without the title of being a slave? (Character)

Joe Dillema

1.     .       Does Jim deflate the novel by being a character that's just there rather than a character with ownership? (end of the book)
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3.       Could Twain have created a better character than Huck?
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5.       Does Jim reassume his previous slave role of submission and silence?
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7.       Is Jim a full rounded character?
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9.       If you were Jim, would you have ran off to be free or would you have tended Tom and take him back to the doctor?

Smiley

I agree with Smiley on how she said that Twain didn't know where he was trying to go with the story because she brought up how Twain wrote about the family feud which doesn't go along with anything with racism or African Americans.

Twains Purpose?

What did you guys learn from Twain? I mean. how might have people reacted when they read this book? I learned a lot about the time period this was written in...but also have some doubts about how much Twain  exaggerated...But overall I think that Twain had such a good purpose on writing this story. He wanted to teach people. What do you guys thin??

Huck, Tom and Jim in the end

 It is pretty troubling that Tom knew all along that Jim was really a free man and then he pretends to make it up to Jim by paying him for his troubles.  Basically Tom hasn't changed throughout the novel, but Huck and Jim have.  Huck's morals have changed as he tried to free Jim and saw Jim on a different level than a slave.  He grew a lot in the novel, so even thought a lot of what he did wasn't really necessary because Jim was free anyway it still helped him to grow inside and change his attitudes somewhat. He is still childish though and we see that when he says he has no interest in being sivilized.   The real Jim came out--a decent, respectable human being--more as he tried to always to the right thing and help and care for others despite how he was being treated. 

WHAT!?!?!?

How hectic was that? And how ironic was it that Tom enjoyed being shot!? That shows how crazy of a man Tom is!(HAHA) If I were shot I'd be so scared. Comment!!

The Ending

How things ended with Jim actually surprised me.  I expected Huck to be able to free Jim or take him to freedom.  Instead it just ended up that Miss Watson died and Jim was freed in her will.  I wanted some kind of reward for all of the adventures Huck and Jim had instead he would have been free anyway.  I guess it didn't really surprise me that Huck moved out west because he may not have to be civilized there.  I also wonder why Jim just now mentioned that the man shot in the back on the float house was Huck's dad.  Anything surprise you guys?