Jim is very superstitious. He believes that witches came for him but it was really a prank. The characters in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn uses the word "nigger" and it's demeaning to black people. Mark Twain describes Jim in a racist way.
Watch two examples of film versions of the novel. How is Jim portrayed in the dvd version and the VHS version? How do you account for the differences in the portrayal of Jim?
In the first DVD version, Jim is some kind of voodoo man. I thought he'd be in rags and dirty but he wasn't.
In the second DVD version, they show him more family-oriented. He is sad because he is leaving his family and they show him actually leaving instead of just showing up on Jackson Island.
In the VHS version,
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