Mark Twain once said, “Generalizations aren’t true, even this one.” Twain integrates this quote into the central theme of his novel, Adventures of Huck Finn, due to the fact that Jim appears to be a negative stereotype of African Americans even though his kind nature contradicts the generalization. The novel plays with the racial assumptions of the time by showing the relationship between Huck and Jim. Huck, as a southern white male, should be superior to Jim, as a slave; however, Twain depicts their relationship as relatively equal. Huck is merely a tool in the story for the reader to be able to more clearly see the interactions between Jim and the distinctive types of people that Jim and Huck encounter. By depicting Jim as gullible, superstitious,
