Talking bout Mary Jane

                To help my critique on Huck Finn the best article would be Toni Morrison but with her I can’t have any counter arguments because I agree with most of it, but with Jane smiley I feel as though I have more room to have a counter argument with myself. With this disagreement within myself I am able to create more compelling arguments. With Smiley I agree primarily with her opinion on society being such terrible place that a book can so easily be written to criticize society. I don’t agree with her style of reading Huck Finn, from what I can tell she seems to read Huck Finn with Huck being a heroic character. Personally I didn’t read Huck Finn where I position a BOY as a hero. This isn’t a story where there are fantasies and unicorns, no this is the story of a boy and a slave trailing the Mississippi river. In this book they address many issues of society but I couldn’t bring myself to read this book with Huck as a hero. So when Tom appears at the end of the novel I don’t see Hucks traits disappear, I see two children trying to save a friend in a childlike manner. In my read I depicted Jim as the actual hero and not some boy, Jim has the archetypal traits of a hero and many traits that are suited for a sidekick. He is kind and forgiving and helpful but he is still the person under Huck so still portrayed as a sidekick.