an equal, in no way depicts racism and, in
             fact, lends credence to Twain's argument for the equality of all, whether
             black or white. In order to change Huck's initial misconception of "nigger"
             Jim, Twain reveals Jim's humanity in a profoundly moving story about a time
             when Jim struck his four-year-old daughter, 'Lizbeth.
             'One day she was a-stannin' around', en I says to her, I says: 'Shet de
             do'!' She never done it; jis' stood dah, kiner smilin' up at me. It make me
             mad . . . Jim tells her again, but she still does not respond, so he 'fetch' her
             a slap side de head dat sont her a'sprawlin'.
             Jim is unaware that his daughter's recent scarlet fever has made her deaf. He
             orders her to get to work one more time, but she still does not respond. Just
             as he is about to strike her again, Jim notices that she does not react to their
             cabin door slamming shut from a gust of wind: " 'de chile never move!'. "
             Jim finally realizes that his daughter never heard him. He knows now that she
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