Jim (Huckleberry Finn)
Jim is one of two major fictional characters in the classic novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The book chronicles his and Huckleberry's 1830s raft journey down the Mississippi River in the antebellum Southern United States. Jim is an adult African American slave who has fled; "Huck," a 13-year-old Cacasian male, joins him in spite of his own conventional understanding and the law.
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“Just kids! That’s about the craziest argument I’ve ever heard. Every criminal in the world was a kid once. What does it prove?”
—Theodore Simonson. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. Jim Bird, The Blob, responding to the suggestion that they not lock up the teens pulling the alien “prank,” (1958)