Jim's Daughter

At the end of chapter 23 Huck and Jim start talking and get on the subject of Jim's family. Jim hears a long clack in the background and it reminds him of his daughter Lizabeth. He talks how she had scarlet fever and got better soon after. After she got healthy, JIm said that she was just standing around and doing no work so he yelled at her in order to get her to start working and once she didn't move and just kept standing there, he yelled some more. JIm said that he could remember getting so angry that he hit his four year old daughter across the head so hard that he felt bad after doing that. Lizabeth started to cry and with Jim still being mad he stood there and yelled, but once he realized what he had done was wrong he grabbed his daughter and just hugged her. He found out she couldn't hear his commands because the scarlet fever had left her deaf so then hitting her became extra wrong. It shows that even though Jim is a slave and by society is labeled as having no feelings, that he loves his family as much as any other white man does. It is showing that Jim is a very caring person and that even though he is a slave he is the same as any other white male.