![]() ![]() Though, it's too bad it stops midway through the process. I think I can see Twain's approach: he starts with a caricature, and works in the real man gradually until the reader is unable to think of him as a caricature anymore. Of course poor Jim gets left out of a lot of the action, but his plight as frequently-shackled-and/or-costumed sidekick is hard to bear nonetheless. ![]() I must have just trained my junior self to skip lightly across the n words and massive amounts of racism, and as a result missed the point of so much of it being there. Interesting that as a kid I missed a lot of it, when it seems to dominate most pages. The book isn't entirely about race, but nearly so. (And, overall, I'm impressed with how nonliterary the Greatest American Novel actually is. I actually deeply enjoyed the slapstick silliness of the plot, where there was plot, more than I did the more 'literary' elements. Different than I remembered from my childhood, sort of. ![]()
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