The scene that I found often completely captivated, convinced and captured many of my students was in Chapter 15 ...

Big Jim and White Boy also vividly embraces some of the more complex historical details of the setting. Between John Brown and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Missouri in the 1850s was a boiling point in ...

Local illustrator helps reimagine 'Huck Finn' tale through Jim's perspective Marcus Kwame Anderson worked with author David F. Walker on graphic novel "Big Jim and the White Boy" By Jim Shahen Jr ...

But it’s not the only reinterpretation of the Huck Finn mythos to come out in the past year. “Big Jim and the White Boy” is a graphic novel from writer David F. Walker and Capital Region ...

In “Huck Finn,” Jim is portrayed as superstitious; in “My Jim,” he has powerful spiritual vision that allows him to help his family and gain the respect of whites. Advertisement.

Berkeley High is the only school in the United States in which students study "Huck Finn" and "My Jim" together, according to Rawles\' publisher, Random House Inc. Education experts also say that ...

Today happens to be the anniversary of the American publication of one of the best novels, ever. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was published on this date, Feb. 18, 1885.

In a fever dream of a retelling, America's new reigning king of satire has turned a loved classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, upside down, placing Huck's enslaved companion Jim at the center.

The man called Jim has always been the hero of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Mark Twain might have titled the book, often considered to be the Great American Novel, after the white boy ...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain Introduction by Justin Kaplan; foreword and addendum by Victor Doyno Random House, 418 pages, $25 This new edition of Mark Twain’s classic restores ...