• At the end of Ch. 23 Jim tells as story about his daughter. What is significant in that story and what does it reveal about Jim?

Jim tells us the story of his four year old daughter Elizabeth. She didn’t follow his orders, and he hit her. He asked her to close the door, and she just stood there. He felt really bad that he hit her because it wasn’t because she wasn’t listening to her father; it was because she became deaf from the Scarlet fever. This shows that Jim has emotions, and black people usually don’t have emotions because they become socially inferior.