his hat on a limb to show who done it," (Twain 6). This ignorant and illogical explanation illustrates the stereotypical white opinion of Negroes in America. Later in the novel, Huck goes to Jim for help in conjuring the future. The reader sees the ridiculous side of the typical Slave classification. Jim's prized possession is a hairball that was taken from the stomach of an ox. "He said there was a spirit inside of it, and it knowed
             everything," (Twain 17). Jim rolls the hairball around the floor a bit and then claims to see into Huck's future. After this incident, Jim not only seems ignorant, but absurd, for using a hairball as an oracle, further showing the illustration of Jim's character as the carefree and superstitious image. Finally, Twain uses Jim's superstition to round out this categorization of all Negroes. After Huck fools his father and the town into thinking he was murdered, he escapes into the wilderness of Jackson Island and unexpectedly runs into Jim. Upon seeing the boy he assumes was dead, Jim exclaims, "Doan' hurt me-don't! I hain't ever done no harm to a ghos'. I alwuz liked dead people, en fone all I could for 'em...doan' do nuffin to Ole Jim, 'at 'uz alwuz yo' fren'," (Twain 41). Instead of the seemingly logical conclusion to which most would jump, that Huck was not really dead, Jim's ignorance combines with his superstitious belief in ghosts to form the opinion that the vision he saw before him did not consist of flesh and bones, but the ghost of Huck Finn returned from the dead to haunt him. Twain uses this combination of ignorance, absurdity, and sup
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