He says, "Even allowing for the fact that the novel is written from the limited perspective of a fourteen-year-old boy (and at fourteen it is not possible to take anything seriously but oneself), the author must be held responsible for choosing to write from that point of view." ... Lester also argues in his essay that when Huck speaks of Jim in the end of the novel saying, "I knowed he was white inside,"" he is displaying "proof of liberalism or compassion, but evidence of an inability to relinquish whiteness as a badge of superiority. " However, Justin Kaplan quotes Mark Twain elaborating on...

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