| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - If Jim had been a white ex-convict befriended by Huck, the ending could not have been imagined or written. (56) What is above all disturbing about the novel, Morrison argues, is not its portrayal of Jim, ???but what Mark Twain, Huck, and especially Tom need from him.???(57) Rather than merely a white man???s limited portrait of a slave, the novel demonstrates the inadequacy of Euro-American utopia
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