How Does Huck Finn Build A Good Environment

In the beginning of the story, Huck treats Jim like any other slave would’ve been treated. Huck was raised in a society that dehumanized slaves as if they were below everyone else because of their skin color. The start of Huck and Jim’s friendship was put on display when Huck and Jim got separated, and Huck tried to convince Jim that he was only dreaming. However, upon catching onto his scheme, Jim became very unamused by Huck. “Then he got up slow, and walked to the wigwam, and went in there, without saying anything...It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger-but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn’t do him no more mean tricks,” (Twain 95). This is a turning point because Huck finally starts to understand that Jim is a human and just like him, he has feelings.

Along the path of self-discovery, challenges constantly present themselves as opportunities to grow intellectually and as a chance to succeed. Often times, the use of personal judgment and self-understanding is necessary in order to overcome these challenges. In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck experiences difficulties which compel him to use his moral judgment. Huck, a young boy in search of freedom, is accompanied by a runaway slave named Jim as he embarks on a treacherous journey down the Mississippi River. During his adventure, Huck must determine the fate of the runaway slave. However, as his relationship with the slave deepens, he comes to realize this task is far from simple. Huck faces this life-defining yet

Throughout the book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the main character, Huck goes through major changes. The story is set before the Civil War in the South. Huck is a child with an abusive father who kidnaps him from, Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, the people he was living with. He eventually escapes from his father and finds Jim, Miss Watson’s runaway slave. As Huck travels with Jim, Huck begins to realize that Jim is more than a piece of property. During the travel down the river, Huck makes many decisions that reflect his belief that Jim deserves the same rights he has. Because of these realizations, Huck chooses to do the right thing in many instances. Some of these instances where Huck does the right thing instead of society’s

Even though Jim and Huck had a lot of good times, there was some bad times. For example, after Jim was taken back into slavery Huck mabe a plan to get him out but he said, “... it’s a dirty low-down business…” (Document F). This shows that Huck knew Jim was a slave and he knew messing with slaves a very low on the totem pole. Another example, would be when Huck was going to write a letter to Jim’s owner explaining where he was during that time, Huck says, “... everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they’d make Jim feel it all the time… “ (Document E). This proves that by the end of the story Huck was thinking of Jim as a slave. However, a few bad moments do not define a

Character development is used in Huck Finn to represent an idealistic lifestyle of any young child, but eventually begins to form into the rest of society. Huck has no active relationships other than the one with his drunken and absentee father, and has the freedom to do whatever he pleases. He is admired by all the other kids as a symbol of freedom and a perfect lifestyle. Nonetheless Huck begins to change throughout the story, and fit into the typical structure of most children in the story. While most adult despise Huck Mr. Jones welcomes him with open arms, into his home. The sudden change in events begins to reform Huck and starts a very drastic change in his character. Although Tom begins the story despising the actions of the so called “model boy”, although he senses the change in his character by

While he was seemingly content, he refused to be sold to a new master in New Orleans. While Huck does not look down upon Jim the way others do, they begin to act as equals in chapters 8 and 9 since society is not there to influence their actions. Jim does not fear Huck turning him in as a runaway slave since Huck is on the run, too. As question 1 references, the two are parallels. They are both running away from society’s expectations of them. Huck feels as though he will be stuck with his father purely based off shared genetics despite the abuse, and Jim is seen as a lowly slave purely because of his skin color. As the novel progresses, Jim is seen less as a slave in the reader’s and Huck’s mind and more as the father figure Huck lacks. While a superstition, Jim tries to protect Huck from any bad omens by warning him against touching the snake skin with his bare hands. He imposes this kind of caring afterthought that Huck has never experienced. In return, Huck is also quite protective of Jim. Towards the end of chapter nine, Huck is canoeing back to their settlement on the island and expresses concern for Jim being caught. He makes, “…Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with the quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a n----- a good ways off,” (Twain). Between chapters eight and nine, Huck begins to genuinely care for

In the novel, Huck learns a big lesson. Huck bonds with Jim causing him to rethink many things he is taught. Jim exclaims, “‘Dah you goes, de ole true Huck, de on’y white genlmen dat ever kep’ his promise to ole Jim’” (Twain 83). Jim is a slave, therefore, he is not treated with much kindness.

Jim does have a major effect in Huck’s development because he taught Huck that niggers have feelings, just like the whites do. In the south, the niggers were believed to be worthless and trash. Society has shown Huck that niggers were merely property. They were not people not did they have feelings. Rather, the reason for their existence was to be sold from one slave owner to another. Although the blacks are misrepresented in the south, Jim proves to Huck that he is not property but a human being, as well. He cares for his family just like white people do. While Jim was trying to escape from slavery, he wanted to help his family escape slavery, as well. Therefore, this causes Huck to understand Jim not only cares about himself but other

Leaving time for Huck and Jim to progress their friendship they continue by building off trust. Twain places this in the book because just as Huck rejects civilization without Jim he would've leaded himself in hard times and

But Huck think about his plan was not successes. But Huck stayed with Jim continuously. Huck’s struggle with the concept of slavery and Jim’s freedom continues throughout the novel. Huck and Jim meets several characters during their journey, including they met team of robbers abroad a damaged steamboat and a southern “genteel” families, involved in a bloody feud. The time only Huck and Jim feel that truly free is when they are in the raft. The freedom and peace are destroyed by the presence of the Duke and the King, the raft and force Huck and Jim to stop at various river town arrange perform confidence cheats on the

The raft serves as the uncivilized portion, he can do what he wants he doesn’t have to listen or even deal with other people other than Jim which doesn't bother him. They would never have to leave the raft if it weren't for all the incidents Twain puts them in. Their travels bring them to shore a lot, where they meet new people and often get into some pretty serious predicaments. Each one Huck makes it through, sometimes barely, but it gives Huck more of a reason each time to stay uncivilized. Huck and Jim encounter many different types of people and this gives them and understanding of the different types of people and that they aren’t all as bad as it seems.

In the first part of the novel Huck follows Tom, who enjoys to play tricks on Jim. Tom’s tricks make Jim almost a source of entertainment and a toy for Huck and Tom. “When we was ten foot off, Tom whispered to me and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun...”(109). Slaves were thought to be underdeveloped mentally and didn’t have feelings like the rest of the white population. As Huck and Jim’s journey continues Huck sees that Jim shares some feelings with him and the rest of the Caucasian population.

How he develops morality and maturation. During this novel I’ve encountered a few interesting topics. But the main topic we’re going to focus on are the life lessons Huckleberry Finn learns on his journey. Huck, a thirteen-year-old son of a drunken father in Missouri Jim, a African American house slave of a woman, but Jim plays a intelligent and more mature older man. The two stumble along each other and Huck realizes that humanity has nothing to do with race. Before the two take off, Jim becomes a runaway slave and Huck runs away from his abusive father. The two begin their journey and begin to build a relationship.

One component of these chapters that I felt was extremely prevalent was the character development of Huck. There were multiple instances when Huck had to make certain decisions that would effect him in the long run, and with most of those decisions came a moral struggle. It seemed as if within these chapters, Huck is trying to find out who he truly is as a person. One example of these moments is in chapter 16 when he is having an internal battle, trying to convince himself that helping Jim gain his freedom is in fact the right thing to do. The quote reads, “I couldn't get that out of my conscience, no how nor no way. It got to troubling me so I couldn't rest; I couldn't stay still in one place…I tried to make out to myself that I warn't to blame, because I didn't run Jim off from his rightful owner” (Pg. 87). In the quote stated above you can clearly see the internal struggle that Huck goes through, trying to find himself along the way. He looks at the situation with 2 different perspectives, one of them being that taking Jim to gain his freedom is immoral and the wrong thing to do, the other being taking Jim to gain his freedom is the right thing to do. Although Jim knows that either way he will feel guilty but he ends up choosing to take Jim's side because of his loyalty. Jim shows his appreciation to Huck by saying things like, "Dah you goes, de ole true Huck; de on'y white genlman dat ever kep' his promise to ole Jim”(Pg. 92), causing Huck

Huck’s views regarding black people come into question when Huck and Jim run away together. Their experiences together let them become closer to each other and let Huck recognize Jim as a human being with real feelings. Huck starts to view Jim as a caring individual when they are on the raft. This is a scene taken from when Jim and Huck were working together on the raft and Jim was trying to protect them both from the rain, “Jim took up some of the top planks of the raft and built a snug wigwam to get under in blazing weather and rainy, and to keep the things dry. Jim made a floor for the wigwam, and raised it a foot or more above the level of the raft, so now the blankets and all the traps was out of reach of steamboat waves” (Twain, pg 64). In this part of the novel, Huck seems to be all Jim has, and Jim is also all Huck seems to have, and they work together to build a place that the waves cannot reach them. Their feeling of friendship is born through working together and protecting each other. Even though Huck and Jim are having new experiences together, Huck’s conscience is still going back and forth about the idea of freeing a slave. This quote is taken from when Huck