Huckleberry Finn Friendship Analysis

During Huck and Jim's adventure, Jim starts to open up to Huck. He tells about his wife and kids and reveals his plan on how to get his family back. He states he would get a job to earn money to get his wife first, and then they would work together to get their kids. If this plan deteriorated, then he would purloin them from their masters. Huck is disconcerted by this because he sees now that Jim has feelings just the same as any white folk. Yet, he becomes concerned with the idea that he may have committed a crime by aiding Jim, a slave, to his freedom. He has a hard time understanding what he should and should not do. We understand this when he says, "I begun to get it through my head that he was most free--and who was to blame for it?

The novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, covers the situations and people Huckleberry Finn encounters after he runs away. Huck prevents his alcoholic father from getting his fortune and is able to run away after his father, Pap, kidnaps him and leaves town. It has many colorful characters that exhibit several facets of society at that time in history. It is anti-racist although it uses the word "nigger" frequently. Huck seems to struggle throughout the book with what he has been taught and what is morally right. His main and most consistent interaction is with Jim, a runaway slave. Although he had been taught differently throughout his entire life, he eventually makes the choice to go against what society deems to be right and be Jim's

Some friends act like your second mother or father, but do they act like a slave too? In Mark Twain’s famous story The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck finds a friend named Jim who is also a slave. The story took place in 1830s-1840s so slavery was very common, and the cruel way they treated slaves was acceptable by society. Because Jim was sold to a new owner he ran off and hid in order not to get beaten. During the same time of Jim’s escape Huck faked his own death to get away from his father. Together, Huck and Finn, start this wild journey of living in the woods by themselves, in this time they are faced with many obstacles and Jim has chosen to look after Huck. The greater question over the whole story and still asked today is: How did Huckleberry Finn see Jim? To answer that question is Huck saw Jim as a father, friend, and slave throughout the course of this book.

A story note to one of the documents says, “Huck contemplates writing a letter to Jim’s owner, Miss Watson, letting her know where Jim is” (Doc E Story Note). If Huck did not think of Jim as a slave, he would not even think about writing the letter. Jim ran away from Miss Watson because he did not want to be a slave anymore and he wanted to be free. Huck was contemplating whether or not to send the letter because he was doing what society wanted him to do. He was taught that black people will only ever be seen as objects and property, not as humans.

Huck faces a critical decision in chapter 31 regarding whether he or not he should write to Miss Watson or leave Jim alone. Huck could either figure out the situation on his own or he can send a message to Miss Watson and inform her of where Jim is. If he were to write to Miss Watson, she may be upset at Jim for leaving her and sell him further south. If she didn’t sell him, everyone would treat Jim as a disgrace for being ungrateful. How it personally affects Huck, if word got out that Huckleberry Finn helped a black man get to freedom, he would be shamed. It may be worse than what he imagines, but he is only a child. If he were to figure the situation out on his own and save Jim himself to still allow Jim to get to freedom, Huck would “go

Originally, Huck believes that he should turn in Jim, a slave running away from being sold by Widow Douglas and Miss Watson. He does not see it as following the law, he just believes that it would be immoral for him not to turn in Jim to the cops. Huck Finn was raised to accept the idea of slavery which has been shaped by a society who accepted slavery. The pranks that Huck Finn pulled on Jim reflects Huck Finns attitude towards Jim 's intelligence. In the scene after Huck Finn and Jim get separated in the fog, Huck thinks Jim is stupid enough to believe that none of it

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.

During the beginning of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim and Huck were not close. They were barely even friends. Huck thought of Jim as a servant, not a friend. As the book progressed however, Jim and Huck became closer. One could even say that by the end of the book Jim was like a father or brother to Huck. As Huck develops as a person, it becomes easier for him to see Jim as a human and not just property and helping him, while it may be wrong, is the right thing to do in his eyes.

Jim is a runaway slave. He lived on Jackson’s island across the river from where the community he was originally at. By being a runaway slave, Jim is breaking the law. He is owned by another human, Miss Watson. Jim is considered the legal material property of another person. Huck rejects this legal law, and agrees to help Jim break the law by escaping. Huck is shocked at himself for doing this and even believes he will go to hell for his actions. But Huck decides to choose friendship over what society tells him to do. When Huck and Jim are on the adventure down the Mississippi, their friendship grows stronger and stronger. They depend on each other to survive. Huck attempts to turn in Jim. When Huck and Jim came to the shore by a town. Huck gets off and looks for someone to report Jim. However, Huck runs into some white people wanting to capture runaway slaves. They Huck if he had any others in the boat with him. Huck get scared for Jim and told them that there was his mom, dad and sister in the boat and they all had small pox. By doing this, Huck puts his heart ahead of his head. Huck and Jim returns to St. Petersburg. Jim gets to be free, although Huck doesn’t realize that. Huck saw Jim in a building thinking that Jim was now a slave that couldn’t leave the plantation. So he got Tom Sawyer and then Tom wanted to plan out a way to get Jim out. The plan that Tom had was ridiculous because they could just walk in and take Jim away. Huck tried to point that out to Tom but, as stubborn as Tom is, they did Tom’s plan. A while later, they finally got Jim

Huck Finn's relationship with slavery is very complex and often contradictory. He has been brought up to accept slavery. He can think of no worse crime than helping to free a slave. Despite this, he finds himself on the run with Jim, a runaway slave, and doing everything in his power to protect him. Huck Finn grew up around slavery. His father is a violent racist, who launches into tirades at the idea of free blacks roaming around the countryside. Miss Watson owns slaves, including Jim, so that no matter where he goes, the idea of blacks as slaves is reinforced. The story takes place during the 1840's, at a time when racial tensions were on the rise, as northern abolitionists tried to stir up trouble in the South. This prompted a

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

Friendship for me has always been about connecting over something personal and maturing from it. Huck has one parent and his father Pap, is a drunk; he has no family and only relies on himself. Jim is a slave who is going to be taken from his family. Both Huck and Jim run away (separately)

The long nights on the Mississippi led to hiding from the ferries and men looking for Jim during the day. The road to freedom was not easy; they went through many things to get there such as getting stuck at the Grangerfords family house. They seen many bad things happen throughout their journey and their luck seemed to be opposing them. They were split up multiple times not knowing if the other one was still alive, but always made it back to each other. There was times where Huck realized that society had taught him that slaves should not have freedom such as the whites. On this journey it made him realize under the color of the skin everyone was the same and all each person's wants it to be able to do as they want and not be controlled by other humans. The realization of Huck helped him in the freeing of his friend Jim. If he had done as society had taught him Jim nor Huck himself would have not been made free because the help of each other is what helped to set them

“Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right”. In The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, the main character Huck Finn, was with multiple complications whereas Huck Finn had to go against people’s beliefs. In The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, friendship played a significant role. While Huck Finn escaped his abusive father he ran into a former slave, Jim, who ran away from his owner when he figured out that he was on the process of being sold. Along both of their individual adventure Jim and Huck collided on Jackson’s island and begun their adventure together. Throughout their adventure Huck FInn had to be untruthful to curve around predicaments thrown at Jim and him. Through Jim and

Twain uses Huck to make decisions based on this hypocritical slave-owning, Christian lifestyle. Huck must choose to either aid a runaway slave named Jim or return him to Miss Watson, while the white society of the South would expect Huck to return Jim to Miss Watson. Huck and Jim 's friendship makes this a significant decision because Huck is morally conflicted. Jim is his friend, but he is also the property of Miss Watson. An excerpt from Magill 's Survey of American Literature puts the situation in a right perspective exclaiming “Jim is property before he is man, and Huck is deeply troubled, surprisingly, by the thought that he is going to help Jim, not only because he sees it, in part, as a robbery, but more interestingly, because he sees his cooperation as a betrayal of his obligation to the