Huck Finn As A Foil To Pap Character Analysis

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

During the book, Huck hasn’t really experienced what life really was and what you might encounter during times that just come out of anything. Jim is someone that you might call strange and unexpected. When Huck

In the beginning Huck never really knew what a true friend was, and then he went on a journey with Jim, a runaway slave. For a while, Huck has thoughts about turning in Jim and having him sent back to Miss Watson. However, he always remembers how nice Jim is to him. Huck said that he would not tell anyone that Jim had runaway and in return Jim was willing to protect and help Huck. Jim would even give up his sleep just because he wanted to let Huck continue to sleep. That was not the only thing Jim did for Huck either. When the house floated by and the two saw a body laying inside it dead, Jim went in to see what was in the house and found that it was Huck's father that was dead. Jim covered the body so Huck did not realize that his father had been killed. Through just these two actions made by Jim, Huck learns one of the most valuable life lessons: true friendship.

Huck not only realizes that Jim is a human being, but he also comes to terms with the fact that Jim is a good person, and has an extremely good heart.

"…Then I'll go to Hell." P.215. Finally, after developing a good relationship, Huck realizes that Jim is a person and that society is wrong about him. "I knowed he was white inside…" P.276.

Huck could always count on Jim to never leave him side and Huck could do anything to help Jim in return. Jim was a really close friend to Huck. For example, “ Ole Jim,’ at ’ uz awluz yo ’ fren’ ” (Document B). Huck basically made a promise to Jim that they would always have each other.

Huck comes to the realization that lying has the power to save lives as he has saved his own life as well as Jim’s countless times already. Unlike the robbers, Huck realizes obscuring the truth for evil purposes is not acceptable, he feels as though lying to someone creates a burden that gets harder and harder to carry over time. Huck saves Jim’s l;ife yet again when they encounter two men on the river that wish to search the raft for escaped slaves; Huck quickly concocts a lie that Jim is his father and has smallpox, “’Well, I’ve told everybody before and they just went and left us’” (90). While he saved his friend’s life, Huck debates whether this action was justified since society regards Jim as a

Who gives huck friendship, his heart to god and his life for a silly feud.

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain the Relationship Huck Finn and His Father and his slave friend Jim are the exact opposite of what you would expect. Huck’s righteousness is given to him by Miss Watson, he also receives some mischief from his friend Tom. When he meets Jim, he is taught that being good doesn’t mean being there for someone, but instead that he it means taking care of someone and having sympathy for all things that they have struggled. Pap tries to make Huck more manly by abusing him to make him tougher, but Jim is a more successful father figure because he influences Huck to be respectful and caring.

Later in the book Huck shows up on an island which just happens to have Jim on it and

 After Huck is “dead” he runs deeper into the woods to an island that doesn’t get many visitors, so Huck thought. When he gets to his destination he happens to run into Jim, a slave. Although, Huck is supposedly dead, so Jim is taken by surprise and thinks that he is encountering Huck’s spirit.

Huck experiences internal conflict in chapter 16 when he is overwhelmed with guilt about freeing Jim and resolves to row ashore to turn him in at dawn. But as he is rowing, Jim tells her that he owes him his freedom, and that he is “de only

Huck sees Jim as a friend and Tom sees Jim as a

When Huck first met Jim they didn’t even question each other, they knew they were going to get caught if they didn’t do anything so they hid together. They were both running from what they knew wasn't what they wanted. Jim was very astonished of how Huck treated him, he felt it was fake because he had never

When Huck kept his promise to the man, Jim was very quick to assume that they were best friends and that he could trust Huck with anything at all. In my opinion, Jim was too quick to believe that Huck was his best friend, even if he did keep his promise.