In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck has internal struggles with himself, when the book starts he is living in a small town in the south. He decides to run away and finds a run-away slave he knew from his town, and the two of them decide to run away together. Huck has to decide between helping Jim escape from the Phelp’s farm, or leave him to be brought back to slavery. Huck realizes that he should follow his own moral code, and help Jim because Jim was always there to get Huck out of trouble. This illuminates one of the main topics of the book, just because it is wrong according to society, doesn’t mean it’s incorrect.
Huck comes to an epiphany when he has to decide whether to help Jim or leave him.
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He has struggled since the beginning. Early on in the book Huck treats Jim poorly by pulling a cruel joke on him. When he realizes what he has done, Huck decides to do apologize to Jim. Apologizing to Jim means seeing him as someone of more importance than a slave, something people thought was completely horrible. “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger…” It takes Huck fifteen minutes to apologize to Jim because he was black. If Jim was white then he would never have pulled the joke on him or taken that long to apologize because they were always viewed as someone equal or greater due to age. He realizes that Jim has feelings.
Huck completely expresses how he feels about Jim being black, he sees the only difference is his color of skin. “ I knowed he was white inside…” By recognizing Jim is the same shows how meaningful the epiphany was, and what it meant to Huck. It shows that Huck now sees Jim as a protector and friend, rather than a slave. Throughout the whole book. Huck struggled with helping Jim, he came to the conclusion that Jim should be treated like a friend rather than a
Huck comes to an epiphany when he has to decide whether to help Jim or leave him.
It was a close place. …show more content…
He has struggled since the beginning. Early on in the book Huck treats Jim poorly by pulling a cruel joke on him. When he realizes what he has done, Huck decides to do apologize to Jim. Apologizing to Jim means seeing him as someone of more importance than a slave, something people thought was completely horrible. “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger…” It takes Huck fifteen minutes to apologize to Jim because he was black. If Jim was white then he would never have pulled the joke on him or taken that long to apologize because they were always viewed as someone equal or greater due to age. He realizes that Jim has feelings.
Huck completely expresses how he feels about Jim being black, he sees the only difference is his color of skin. “ I knowed he was white inside…” By recognizing Jim is the same shows how meaningful the epiphany was, and what it meant to Huck. It shows that Huck now sees Jim as a protector and friend, rather than a slave. Throughout the whole book. Huck struggled with helping Jim, he came to the conclusion that Jim should be treated like a friend rather than a