He is immature at first, playing practical jokes on Jim, handling him the way Tom Sawyer would(as an inferior toy). However, Jim teaches him to …show more content…
Recall the rattle snake incident when Jim got bitten by a dead snake's mate;And the fog incident when Jim was worried sick whether or not Huck was all right, but he thought it was riotous to lie to him that it was just a dream. For the first time he learns to apologize to a slave, and that a slave is just like anyone else and justifies respect. Huck correspondingly learns what is right and wrong, which is the major inner conflict. All along he has been dithering by the resolution whether or not to turn Jim in to the slave catchers. At first, he saves Jim because he needs him to survive as Huck is deserted as a young child and prefers to have company as he runs away from his father. Later on, he lies to the slave catchers that his family has the small pox on the raft and deters them, but he says that whether he tells the truth or lies, whichever way he would have felt appalling, so he'll