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21915408 No.21915408 [Reply] [Original]

Who was right here?

>Many subsequent critics, Ernest Hemingway among them, have deprecated the final chapters, claiming the book "devolves into little more than minstrel-show satire and broad comedy" after Jim is detained.[32] Although Hemingway declared, "All modern American literature comes from" Huck Finn, and hailed it as "the best book we've had", he cautioned, "If you must read it you must stop where the Nigger Jim is stolen from the boys [sic]. That is the real end. The rest is just cheating."[33][34] The African-American writer Ralph Ellison argued that "Hemingway missed completely the structural, symbolic and moral necessity for that part of the plot in which the boys rescue Jim. Yet it is precisely this part which gives the novel its significance."[35]

>> No.21915795

>>21915408
I don't care. The book is fine I had a lot of fun reading it. Hemingway was gay, Ellison was gayer and a nigger. Why would anyone care about the opinions of two faggots?

>> No.21915872

>>21915408
Ralph is right. Hemingway got filtered, and probably didn't even finish reading the book.