Dialectical Journal Chapter 4-14

In this section, insight into the character of Jim is portrayed. Jim comes across as sincere and trustworthy. The loyalty of Jim and Huck to each other begins to be seen. An example of Jim’s loyalty is seen when Jim is overjoyed to find Huck is still alive after they are separated in the fog. During this section, it begins to be apparent that Jim would be willing to sacrifice to be sure that Huck is safe but Huck does not yet return those feelings. During this section, Huck’s moral dilemma about helping a slave escape begins to surface. The fact that the relationship is strengthening is revealed when Huck lies about having smallpox on their raft in order to prevent Jim from being caught as a slave. Huck again assumes several identities during this section, which reveal much about him. On the raft, Huck is very mature and responsible. He becomes the son of a

Paragraph 1 tone : He seems nervous about this trip He says ,“We’ve all been up since midnight, starting our predive checks after a couple of restless hours of sleep, and the whole team is running on adrenaline. These are the roughest conditions I’ve dived in so far on the expedition” The way he says that they’ve been up the whole night doing checks without sleep and how this is one of the roughest conditions he has dived in so far just gives the sense of nervousness if he will make the challenge.

1) “They carried the soldier’s greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment” (O’Brien 20).

Huck Finn knows that he is going to hell for helping a run-away slave escape and become a free man. Huck tries to find every reason that he should turn Jim in and even tries praying about him doing the right thing, but there is no use in it because Huck does not have the will to turn Jim in. At one point Huck writes a letter to Miss Watson telling her that he has her slave but he thinks it over and says to himself “All right, then, I’ll go

After encounters with bandits and slave catchers, they save two con-artists that claim to be European royalty. With them at their side, they scam every city they come across, when trying to steal an inheritance that gets thwarted by Huck feeling guilt. In retaliation, the two sell Jim to a farmer, and Huck fixes on getting him out. In the luckiest of all coincidences, he was sold to Tom Sawyer’s aunt and uncle. Both mistake him for Tom, who supposed to be visiting around then, again very lucky, and Huck rolls with it. When Tom does arrive, Huck let’s him in on the plan and Tom agrees to play along as younger brother Sid.

Huck and Jim have been traveling by boat from place to place, they have met many interesting people like the Duke and the Douphin. During their journey, Huck and Jim have become a lot more like brothers and tried to defend and protect each other from any danger to come to them. They have learned the true meaning of brotherhood. Being brothers means you must have loyalty and trust. They fight, but just like brothers they make up with it the next day.

Jim and Huck go in an adventure and when they return to Huck’s hometown, Tom tells them that:

This chapter is the confirmation and saving grace that both Twain and I, as Huck puts Jim before himself, before the widow, and stands up to what society’s interpretation of rightdoing for in order to do what he knows is right in his life. This action of his was completely selfless, whole-hearted and courageous. Huck turned his back against the racial norms, the prejudice, the hate, the stereotypes, the lies and the opinions of the white population because he realized that Jim was a beloved friend who was worth making a sacrifice for; Huck even thought that he might go to hell for helping Jim because society had taught the children to hate the African Americans. This shows incredible value placement,

When Jim is captured and quickly sold for forty dollars to farmer, Silas Phelps, Huck is filled with melancholy from his disappearance. His first reaction is to seek help, and capture Jim from the Phelps plantation. Huck then recruits the help of Tom Sawyer in his journey to capture Jim back, and to his surprise Tom is willing to help him. He does not know if Tom realizes what this gesture means, and the possible repercussions of attempting to steal Jim. Huck arrives at the plantation himself, and Mrs. Phelps thinks that he is her nephew, Tom Sawyer. Huck willingly plays along with the idea in protection of his identity to Mrs. Phelps. After a well devised plan, Huck and Tom are able to steal Jim away from the plantation. Huck's willingness to not only risk his life for Jim’s freedom shows the empathy he had for him.

​This chapter starts off with Huck and Tom sneaking around when they cross paths with Jim, Miss Watsons slave. Huck talks about how Jim was looked up upon by other slaves. Huck and Tom meet up with their other friends. Tom Sawyer pitches the idea of starting a band of robbers called “Tom Sawyers Gang” in which each one of the friends must take an oath. All of the boys

Huck and Jim run away from Miss Watson houses. Jim is a runaway slave aftering hearing her would be sold and separated from his family, while Huck runs away from his deadbeat father. Although society thinks it is wrong to help Jim, Huck promises him he won't tell anyone about Jim and will help him. Jim and Huck talk about superstitions while on the island, but after hearing people are looking for Jim they decide to travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Huck and Jim’s friendship grows as Jim protects Huck from seeing his dead father in the house that floats buy on the river. On many adventures down the river, Huck realized Jim cares about him and Huck cares about Jim and a “brotherhood” forms. When Huck goes to find Jim, after two men

Huck, unlike Tom, is gifted with a better conscience and quickly learns his lesson after he sees how it makes Jim feel but that takes a while. They play many evil tricks on him and they make Jims escapement from the farmers shed a game. After a while and a few incidents

In Chapters two and three we meet Jim, who is Mrs. Watson's slave. Huck and Tom Sawyer sneak through the garden, but Tom tripped and captured Jim’s attention. Jim comes outside but the boys don’t

After a while 3 of the 4 meet up back where they were at the beginning of the battle between the two factions. The missing boy was Jim. “Where is Jim!?” said Tom. “I thought he was with you Huck.” said Howard. “No way, I thought he was with Tom.” Said Huck. “That’s it boys, we are going back in for him.” said Tom. All 3 boys agreed to go back to look for Jim and that’s is what they did.

They then run into a thick fog and are separated when a steamboat runs over the raft. Huck escapes and finds himself at the kind Grangerfords, a southern aristocrat family who are locked in a terrible feud with their neighbors the Sheperdson’s. A deadly fight breaks out between the families while Huck is staying with them so he decides he must find a way out. He discovers that Jim has repaired the raft and the two flee quickly down the river. They resume with their journey but are soon entangled with two con artists that hop aboard their raft after being pursued by bandits. After a few small schemes the con artists decide to swindle an entire town out of their gold but the plan fails and, right as Huck and Jim are trying to get away, the con artists jump onto the raft to escape. Shortly after, they commit their worst crime when they sell Jim to a local farmer. The local farmer turns out to be Tom Sawyer’s uncle and Huck pretends to be Tom in order to free Jim. Tom shows up to the house and pretends to be his own younger brother and thinks up an unnecessarily elaborate plan to free Jim. They put their plan into action and free Jim but not before Tom getting shot in the leg and Jim having to take care of the boy in place of his freedom. When Tom recovers he admits to Huck that Jim has been a free man the entire time because Miss Watson set him free when she died. Huck is afraid that he will have to go back to living with his Pa but Jim sets