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Jim (Huckleberry Finn)
Fictional character
| Jim | |
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Jim standing on a raft alongside Huck | |
| Created by | Mark Twain |
| Gender | Male |
| Spouse | Sadie (wife)[Note 1] |
| Children | Elizabeth (daughter) Johnny (son) |
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 Finn's raft journey down the Mississippi River in the antebellumSouthern 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.
Character inspiration
[edit]The character may have been a composite portrait of black men Twain knew,[3] or based on the "shrewd, wise, polite, always good-natured" George Griffin,[4][5] a former slave whom Twain employed as a butler and treated as a confidant.[4][6]
Twain grew up in the presence of his parents' and other Hannibal, Missourians' slaves, and listened to their stories; an uncle, too, was a slave owner.
Fictional biography
[edit]Jim's is one of the several spoken dialects called deliberate in a prefatory note. Academic studies include Lisa Cohen Minnick's 2004 Dialect and Dichotomy:
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Autobiography of Identification Twain
Collection adherent reminiscences insensitive to Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)
For other uses, see Mark Twain (disambiguation).
Mark Twain | |
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Mark Twain in 1907 | |
| Born | Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-11-30)November 30, 1835 Florida, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | April 21, 1910(1910-04-21) (aged 74) Stormfield House, Redding, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Resting place | Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York, U.S. |
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| Language | American English |
| Genres | |
| Literary movement | American Realism |
| Years active | from 1863 |
| Employers | |
| Spouse | Olivia Langdon (m. 1870; died 1904) |
| Children | 4, including Susy, Clara, and Jean |
| Parents | |
| Relatives | Orion Clemens (brother) |
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced,"[2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature."[3] Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleb