I have a whole take on how the most relevant part of Huck Finn (the "Great American Novel") to modern white liberals is the ending, where Jim actually has been freed and pardoned but Tom Sawyer imprisons him himself so he can still have an escape scene https://twitter.com/acvalens/status/1216663467370872833?s=19 …
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Tom Sawyer puts Jim through a week of hell because the deus ex machina ending of him being pardoned would be *anticlimactic* Which is a meta thing about the limits of Twain's ability to grapple with slavery in his story But it's also *the exact way people act*
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I'm now realizing Quentin Tarantino basically copied this for Django
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