From one of Mark Twain’s most famous books, Huck and Jim continue to be the center of attention when it comes to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. At the beginning of the novel, Jim is portrayed as low life and lesser than the people around him, while Huck sees himself as more superior then Jim. If you take into account all the pranks Huck pulled on Jim, you would understand how they view each other. Throughout the book, their experiences and time spent together turn into a fondness. Jim taught Huck how to respect, listen to, and understand the people around him, while also being there for him to count on. Huck and Jim’s relationship changes from the beginning of the novel to the end, resulting in a lifelong friendship.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn took place around the 1840’s. Mississippi during this time period was undergoing a change in the people that lived there. White plantation owners were just adapting to the slave market, where slaves were viewed as property and treated almost inhumanly. This is exactly how Huck sees Jim when he is introduced in chapter four. A scene in the novel describes Huck and Jim listening to a hairball about the future and Pap. The confrontation shows us that Huck would rather take advice from a ball of …show more content…
His thoughts keep intruding and telling him to go and turn Jim in. During this, Huck is fighting a battle between his mind and his heart. This is because he knows that the right thing to do would be to turn Jim in when the next town comes up, but he also feels that it would be tragic to see Jim go. “I tried to make out to myself that I warn’t to blame, because I didn’t run Jim off from his rightful owner; but it warn’t no use, conscience up and says, every time, “But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could a paddled ashore and told somebody.” That was so—I couldn’t get around that noway. That was where it
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn took place around the 1840’s. Mississippi during this time period was undergoing a change in the people that lived there. White plantation owners were just adapting to the slave market, where slaves were viewed as property and treated almost inhumanly. This is exactly how Huck sees Jim when he is introduced in chapter four. A scene in the novel describes Huck and Jim listening to a hairball about the future and Pap. The confrontation shows us that Huck would rather take advice from a ball of …show more content…
His thoughts keep intruding and telling him to go and turn Jim in. During this, Huck is fighting a battle between his mind and his heart. This is because he knows that the right thing to do would be to turn Jim in when the next town comes up, but he also feels that it would be tragic to see Jim go. “I tried to make out to myself that I warn’t to blame, because I didn’t run Jim off from his rightful owner; but it warn’t no use, conscience up and says, every time, “But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could a paddled ashore and told somebody.” That was so—I couldn’t get around that noway. That was where it