Chapters 34-42
Tom's romantic schemes - rats, snakes, grindstone inscriptions - reducing Jim to a prop. Hemingway famously said to read only to where Jim is stolen from the boys.
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The novel's controversial final section, where Tom Sawyer orchestrates an absurdly elaborate 'rescue' of Jim who is already legally free - critics from Hemingway to Leo Marx have debated whether this ruins the book.
Chapter 42
The revelation that Miss Watson freed Jim in her will two months earlier - retrospectively rendering the entire ordeal cruel theater.
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