Huck's Moral Struggle

Huck’s moral struggle In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the main character Huck struggles morally with Jim throughout the story. He struggles with understanding three important ideas that change the relationship between them. The three important ideas of Jim that Huck struggles with are seeing him as a friend, slave and a human being. He sees Jim as a friend when he tore up the letter and decides to go get him. Then he sees him as a slave when he plays tricks on him. He finally also sees him as a human being when Jim feels bad and upset after he plays a trick on him, he sees that Jim actually does have feelings that’s when he realizes that he is not as different as white folks. That is the moral struggle that Huck …show more content…
As he said on page 214 “But somehow I couldn’t seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind… said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he’s got now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper… All right, then, I’ll go to hell – and tore it up.” This part of the story tells that at this point he saw Jim as a friend. When he couldn’t find anything to hate him by because Jim was always kind and there for him. He couldn’t live without him. He decided to go get him having the risk of getting in big trouble and having huge problems if he does it. Instead of writing a letter to Miss Watson so she could come solve the problem. He went along to go solve it himself. This as shown is telling the strong relationship he had built with Jim as a friend because friends will always be there for each other no matter what. Just like Huck is doing for …show more content…
On page 86 as Huck said “It made me feel so mean I could almost kissed his foot to get him to take it back… I wouldn’t done that one if I’d ‘a’ knowed it make him feel that way.” As it’s read it could clearly be shown that Huck hurt Jim emotionally. Huck didn’t know that would have happened since he thought that slaves didn’t really have emotions since their always treated unfairly and badly. Right then when he saw Jim get upset. Huck begins to realize that Jim is a human being. He too has feelings just like Him. This builds how Huck sees Jim more than a colored slave and more like a normal human being that could feel the same way he