En when I wake up en fine you back agin, all safe en soun’, de tears come en I could a got down on my knees en kiss’ yo’ foot I’s so thankful. In Chapter 15 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain writes the following passage, in which Jim is speaking to Huck:When I got all wore out wid work, en wid de callin’ for you, en went to sleep, my heart wuz mos’ broke bekase you wuz los’, en I didn’t k’yer no mo’ what become er me en de raf’. Clare, – ‘this wrings my heart.’ ‘Oh, bless the Lord! It’s over, – it’s over, dear Master!’ said Tom ‘look at her'” (321). ‘Pray that this may be cut short!’ said St. In Chapter 26 of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, when little Eva is on her deathbed, Stowe writes the following portrait of Tom, who is at her side: “Tom had his master’s hands between his own and with tears streaming down his dark cheeks, looked up for help where he had always been used to look. The similarities and differences between Stowe and Twain appear in their respective characterizations of Tom and Jim.
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