Though I'm kind of iffy about one thing she was stressing(about the abrupt cutoffs in the chapter alluding to a father/son relationship between Jim and Huck), but not completely ruling out, I do agree whole heartedlt with one thing she was saying: that there would be no book without Jim. Now, I still think there could be a novel, but it wouldn't even be half as interesting without Jim to provide subtle complexities to the plot. Really, I think the novel, just because Jim is such a make-or-break-the-novel character, may be advocating civil rights for blacks; of course, in a subtle way that - if you notice it - leads to conclusions like these. And if that is so then all the usage of the n-word is meant to make readers(of that time) aware of how big a part it is in society and how it degrades it.
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