| Jim | |
|---|---|
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn character | |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Huck_and_jim_on_raft.jpg) Jim standing on a raft alongside Huck | |
| Created by | Mark Twain |
| In-universe information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Spouse | Sadie (wife)[Note 1] |
| Children | Elizabeth (daughter) Johnny (son) |
| Religion | Christian |
Jim[1][2] is one of two major characters in the classic 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The book chronicles his and Huckleberry's raft journey down the Mississippi River in the antebellum Southern United States. Jim is a black man who is fleeing slavery; "Huck", a 13-year-old white boy, joins him in spite of his own conventional understanding and the law.
- ^ Arac, Jonathan (1999). "Why Does No One Care about the Aesthetic Value of "Huckleberry Finn?"". New Literary History. 30 (4): 782. doi:10.1353/nlh.1999.0043. ISSN 0028-6087. JSTOR 20057571. S2CID 143237607. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
Worst, yet most common, she uses her authority to tell the world that Jim is named Nigger Jim. Of course Twain never uses that formulation, but you would never know it from the public record—including many distinguished professors and some very recently.
- ^ While a slave, Jim has no surname and is formally identified as "Miss Watson's Jim" in reference to his owner. Twain, Mark (2001). Hearn, Michael Patrick (ed.). The Annotated Huckleberry Finn. New York: W.W. Norton. p. 29. ISBN 0393020398. Retrieved 2022-02-08.