Huck And Jim Character Analysis

Jim was a slave to Widow Douglas during the times that Huck stayed at her house. Jim left Widow Douglas's because he knew if he was sold into the south, he would never be able to see his wife and kids ever again. So when Jim and Huck started traveling together, they started to form a bond. One day, Huck and Jim get separated due to fog. When they find each other, Huck pulls a trick on Jim by telling Jim that he was dreaming and they never got separated. When Jim finds out that Huck was lying he gets upset because he was worried something happened to Huck. Huck says, "It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger," (Pg. 241). Huck doesn't feel bad about it but he admits that he woulds not have done the trick if he has known it would had made Jim that upset. Jim also cares about Huck when they are guarding for the Dauphin and the Duke. "I went to sleep, and Jim didn't call me when it was …show more content…
Huck and Jim needed each other. For example, when Jim was captured and sold into slavery; Huck feels obligated to free him. He was going to write to Miss. Watson because he knew Miss. Watson would sell Jim too. He tears up the letter and says "All right then, I'll go to hell. And for a starter I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that, too; because as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the whole hog." (Pg. 514). Huck doesn't free Jim on his own, he gets help from Tom and the both of them use a crazy plan. Huck need Jim because at the end, when Huck thinks that Pap took all of his money, Jim tells him thats not possible. During their adventure, when they say a floating house going down the river and a dead body inside, the dead body was Pap. So Huck now can live the life he wanted all because Jim helped down the river and told him that the dad did not take the