Anna Griswold

I really liked the concept. What was the character of Jim in Huckleberry Finn really like? This is the question Percival Everett poses. And his answer is an interesting one in view of what we know about the era when Mark Twain wrote the novel introducing us to Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and Jim. I do have some doubt that it would have been exactly as he portrayed it. I am looking at this book from the eyes of a white southerner who came of age in the time of the Jim Crow south. I do not have any doubt, however, that James would have had to hide his true nature from whites as it was a dangerous time to be black in the south, and maybe in our nation as a whole. This book needs to have been written and what better time than NOW.