...another one
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wrong to see the degradation of
Jim as a reversion to racism by
Twain. It is utterly wrong to see
the use of the word "nigger" as
anything other than ironic, like
the use of "civilized" and many
others.
Huck, an innocent rube (or so
he thinks of himself--we know
better) can't understand why this
word, used by society as a term
for the lowest of its members, is
used to humiliate the only sane
man in the. book. It is just
another of those things that Huck
thinks shows his own stupidity.
Finally, Jim may revert to a
kind of Step'nfetchit character by
book's end, which is sad, but
virtually the only way an
African-American man had of
coping with a murderous white
society.
Twain didn't mean for us to be
happy with it. Could Jim have
survived without the role of the
"good nigger"? You can bet your
butt that not many independent
and defiant blacks were given
freedom. If you want to be free,
you probably ain't suited for it,
boy. That's irony. Like all of the
best of Twain's writing, it makes
us squirm.
J. Madison Davis
Prole or of English
Lie responsible
Correction
In the Students Abroad story last week, one student's name was
not included. David Bowes, fourth semester, Division of
Undergraduate Studies major, will also be studying abroad next
semester in Exeter, England.
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