[PEN-L:33500] Re: Huck Finn

[joanna bujes <joanna.bujes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:51 AM 12/29/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> Just for accuracy's sake. I suppose some label racist for that reason,
> but the feature of the book focused on by those who read it is not the
> language but that last terrible section in which Tom Sawyer frees Jim.
> Try to imagine a book in which two black men subject a white woman to
> such humiliation in the process of helping her escape from a gang of
> black hoodlums.

Wo. You're talking about the great American novel here. If I remember
right, the "humiliation" is Tom's idea and when Huck finds out about it,
he's pretty disgusted and takes off with Jim....westward. It seemed pretty
clear to me that Twain means for the reader to feel disgusted by Tom.

Joanna