Thanks a lot for the information. Very practical, a forum like this... Niek ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Leonard" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 5:19 PM Subject: Re: Huck and Jim > Niek--The connection you mention is discussed by David E. E. Sloane in > his essay "Huck's Helplessness: A Reader's Response to Stupefied > Humanity," which can be found in my essay collection Making Mark Twain > Work in the Classroom (Duke UP, 1999). Pascal Covici, Jr. makes the > same connection more briefly in his essay "Teaching Huckleberry Finn: > The Uses of the Last Twelve Chapters," in the same volume. Both of > those essays have also been republished electronically on the CD titled > Huck Finn: The Complete Buffalo and Erie County Public Library > Manuscript--Teaching and Research Digital Edition. --Jim Leonard