- Scroll through the images slowly and consider: Which image of Jim best reflects your sense of this character at this point in the novel?
- Once you have selected an image, go to this link - it is a folder containing all of the images, although they are in a variety of sizes and not in the same order.
- Find and copy your image.
- Open a new Google document and title it - Images of Jim.
- Paste your image into the document, followed by a short personal explanation about why you chose that image.
- Go back to the novel and identify a section corresponding to this interpretation of Jim. It might be something he says, something Huck says about him, or a piece of description.
- Return to your document. Insert the quotation, including page / chapter information, and explain it - when is it said, and by whom? what is it conveying about Jim? how? why?
- Identify an image that portrays a different perspective - one held by a character in the book.
- Copy and paste that image into the document.
- Go back to the novel and identify a section corresponding to this interpretation of Jim. It might be something said by another character, or a piece of description.
- Return to your document. Insert the quotation, including page / chapter information, and explain it - when is it said, and by whom? what is it conveying about Jim? how? why?
- Write a short conclusion - are the two images you selected (for #1 and #8) similar or different? Why? What conclusions can you make as a result of seeing these two images together?
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Images of Jim
The collection of images below comes from a variety of versions of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published over the last 140 years. They represent different parts of the novel, so as you view them you might see references to specific events, while others of them are simply portraits of the character.