Jim Steal Analysis

After this Huck spent all his energy on stealing Jim from the Phelps family, and he did not even feel guilty about it. At the beginning of the novel, Huck believed that slavery was right and that it was not immoral to support slavery. By the end of the novel, Huck had become truly moral because he realized that everyone was just human. Jim's presence in this novel and in Huck's adventure allowed Huck to achieve this great moral growth, It was through Jim that

During this time period, runaway slaves were very easy to spot and were captured by slave hunters. Jim was very brave and held a lot of hope by traveling down the Mississippi River with Huck. Jim takes on the role as a father figure towards Huck when they are on their expedition. In the novel, Huck and Jim pass many groups of slave hunters and have to come up with several excuses as to why they shouldn't capture Jim: such as having the pox, painting him blue, and many other bizarre cases. "He's sick-and so is mam and Mary Ann." (93). In chapter thirteen, Huck lies to the slave hunters along the river and tells them that Jim has the smallpox, which drives the men away because they don't want to catch the disease. "I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n." (153). In chapter twenty-three Twain portrays Jim being white on the inside because of his love and passion for his family that has been taken from him. Jim struggles to get back to his family on his journey to

Johnny Tremain,” by Esther Forbes is a book about a boy that lived before and during the Revolutionary War. In this book, Johnny Tremain experienced many things as a boy, apprentice, a silversmith, a messenger, and a revolutionary. While Johnny was getting older and time past by, Johnny experienced love, changing, and betrayal in many ways. Johnny changes during the story, as well as experience love and betrayal right in front of him. Although Johnny went through many hardships, he was still able to overcome the obstacles that came to him. After reading “Johnny Tremain,” Johnny never gave up, and people should never give up just because there is a barrier ahead of us. “Johnny Tremain” has many historical figures that allow the reader to know

Jim becomes frightened and runs away from Mrs. Watson. After Jim runs away from Mrs. Watson, Jim becomes a runaway slave. Jims journey with Huck to freedom commenced with only the fear of being caught as a runaway slave. Later in the journey, Jim starts to crave freedom from slavery. Twain states , "Jim said it made him all over trebly and feverish to be so close to freedom" (97). Jim's happiness is also expressed as they’re getting closer and closer to Cairo, as Huck describes more, "Jim was fidgeting up and down past me. We neither of us could keep still. Every time he danced around and says, "Dah's Cairo!" (97) Jim's happiness for freedom is obvious. The only way Jim can attain his happiness is through freedom.

In the war, it often thought that soldiers, go to a country to keep peace in that part of the world. Unfortunately that is not always the case;during these tours ,soldiers die everyday from cultural violence,and misguided information by their superiors and in this story that has occurred. Jimmy Cross is characterized as a man who is filled with emotion and the loss of one of his men. “Cross carried a compass, maps,...He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men.” (Tim O’Brien pg. 4) Cross felt directly responsible for his men. Death lead Cross to the realization of who Cross truly is, and who he will become. Jimmy Cross has to find himself one way or another, when he is ready to face the truth is completely up to

Twain portrayed Jim to be free after his escape but could only be free to a certain extent.

William Henry Harrison, the Whig president elected in 1840, died after one month in office.

David Newhard was a very brave man who fought in the Vietnam war. Imagine if you were nineteen years old, never involved in the military, and enlisted in the army so you would not be drafted. This was the path that David chose to take in his military career. At the time, he only received $230 a month as income in Vietnam. According to him, he thought that this was a lot of money. Soldiers went over knowing they had to serve for 365 days. This meant that they knew when they could return home. However, David got to come home a little early, and the guy who replaced him was killed two weeks later! If he would have stayed, David could have been the guy who ended up being killed. Human minds cannot grasp the concept of war and all of the horrors that come along with it.

The main message Jeff Nixa is sending to the reader is that we can judge a book by its cover. People who judge other people, or in this case judging a neighborhood by its appearance and crime statistics never know the people who live there. There are good hearted people how just happen to live in a neighborhood that is considered by most people outside the neighborhood as being an undesirable place to live.

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

Similar to Christ, Jim sacrifices his freedom for others without consideration of what could come of him. Even when he has the chance to escape to freedom on his own while Huck is with the Grangerfords, he sacrifices his chance and he “struck out for [the] woods to wait” (Twain 84) in order to stay with Huck. As a repercussion, he later on becomes enslaved and then escapes, going through all that trouble just to be with Huck. During that escape, with his

Jim, a black runaway slave, is obviously treated unfairly, being a black man in a white-man run world. Although, some of these actions towards him are not just racial and social-standing driven. The

Jim is the most courageous and bravest person in this book. Jim a black slave admits to a young white male ( Huck FInn) he ran away to have his freedom. Jim also ran away to find and “steal back his family”. “Well,

I have never read a book like this until we did a book pass around the room and I came across How it went down. It had me close to tears every few pages, maybe I’m just emotional but I love when books can make me feel something.

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