o, Jim, have I been asleep? Why didn't you stir me up?" (285). Jim is overcome with joy upon seeing Huck. Huck, however, acts as if he had never left the raft and convinces Jim that he has dreamt the entire episode. Confused and intimidated by Huck's foolery, Jim acquiesces to the lie and thus his own sense of inferiority. Jim reverts to the only means he knows
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