Challenges & Loyalty
Throughout the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain shows the reader how strong Huck and Jim’s friendship is. Huck is a young boy who runs away from his abusive father and from two women who try to civilize him. Jim runs away from his slave owner, Widow Douglas, when he believes that she's going to sell him down the river to another slave owner. They both, coincidentally, run away to Jackson's Island. Huck and Jim agree to help one another escape and find freedom. The novel depicts their adventures down the mighty Mississippi River and tests just how strong their friendship really is. For example, when Huck helps Jim escape Widow Douglas. Then, when Jim tells Huck nothing about his father’s death to protect his feelings. Finally, when Huck helps Jim escape again, but from Mr. Phelps.
For Instance, when Huck figures out that Jim ran away from home and is now a runaway slave yet, still helped him. “But mind you, you said you wouldn’ tell--you know you said you wouldn’ tell, Huck (Twain, 53).” “Well, I did. I said I wouldn’t and I’ll stick to it. Honest Injun, I will. People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum--but that don’t make no difference. I ain’t a-going to tell, and I ain’t going back there, anyways. So, …show more content…
From, keeping secrets for each others protection, keeping an important secret for someone's personal feelings, to helping someone escape from something they were taught was right but that doesn’t make it right. Speaking of slavery and being taught something is right that really isn’t, is a good example of How To Kill A Mockingbird when Jem and his little sister were raised to believe that slavery was a good thing and that is how black people should be treated. On the other hand, those children knew it was wrong just like Huck knew it was wrong for Jim to be treated that way all of his
Throughout the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain shows the reader how strong Huck and Jim’s friendship is. Huck is a young boy who runs away from his abusive father and from two women who try to civilize him. Jim runs away from his slave owner, Widow Douglas, when he believes that she's going to sell him down the river to another slave owner. They both, coincidentally, run away to Jackson's Island. Huck and Jim agree to help one another escape and find freedom. The novel depicts their adventures down the mighty Mississippi River and tests just how strong their friendship really is. For example, when Huck helps Jim escape Widow Douglas. Then, when Jim tells Huck nothing about his father’s death to protect his feelings. Finally, when Huck helps Jim escape again, but from Mr. Phelps.
For Instance, when Huck figures out that Jim ran away from home and is now a runaway slave yet, still helped him. “But mind you, you said you wouldn’ tell--you know you said you wouldn’ tell, Huck (Twain, 53).” “Well, I did. I said I wouldn’t and I’ll stick to it. Honest Injun, I will. People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum--but that don’t make no difference. I ain’t a-going to tell, and I ain’t going back there, anyways. So, …show more content…
From, keeping secrets for each others protection, keeping an important secret for someone's personal feelings, to helping someone escape from something they were taught was right but that doesn’t make it right. Speaking of slavery and being taught something is right that really isn’t, is a good example of How To Kill A Mockingbird when Jem and his little sister were raised to believe that slavery was a good thing and that is how black people should be treated. On the other hand, those children knew it was wrong just like Huck knew it was wrong for Jim to be treated that way all of his