Illustration by E. W. Kemble, from first edition of 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' 1884. [Editor’s Note, introducing the scene: Halfway through their trip down the river in The Adventures of ...

James, like Huckleberry Finn, is funny. When he talks to other ... adding object to symbol. In the final scene of the book, no longer using his arch-slave assumed dialect, Jim proclaims ...