Huck’s relationship with Jim in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, was designed to show Twain’s time period that slavery isn’t okay and that black people are equal to everyone else. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a story about a boy, Huck, who runs away from home and brings with him a runaway slave named Jim. They experience adventure on the Mississippi river, and the trials of survival in the shore towns. When all Huck and Jim have is each other, their relationship strengthens as Huck gains a deeper understanding of slaves. Mark Twain successfully shows his time period that blacks are the same as everyone else through Huck and Jim’s developing relationship. He does this by changing how Huck thinks about Jim throughout the book, progressing from taunting Jim to concluding that he is the same as everyone and a good man as well.
At the start of the story, Huck clearly does not care about Jim or …show more content…
While on the raft, Huck tries to trick Jim into thinking that the last night had been a dream. Jim gets angry with Huck for tricking him, and Huck has trouble apologizing. Eventually, he comes around and says, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterward, neither. I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d ‘a’ knowed it would make him feel that way.” (Pg.86) It is evident here that Huck had previously thought of Jim as something different and came to the conclusion that he isn’t different at all. Huck realizes that, unlike he has been told, slaves have feelings too. Although the words he use show that he still has influences from southern prejudices, he is starting to see that Jim is as human as anyone else. The remorse Huck feels in this quote is evidence that he is starting to realize Jim is equal and slavery is
At the start of the story, Huck clearly does not care about Jim or …show more content…
While on the raft, Huck tries to trick Jim into thinking that the last night had been a dream. Jim gets angry with Huck for tricking him, and Huck has trouble apologizing. Eventually, he comes around and says, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterward, neither. I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d ‘a’ knowed it would make him feel that way.” (Pg.86) It is evident here that Huck had previously thought of Jim as something different and came to the conclusion that he isn’t different at all. Huck realizes that, unlike he has been told, slaves have feelings too. Although the words he use show that he still has influences from southern prejudices, he is starting to see that Jim is as human as anyone else. The remorse Huck feels in this quote is evidence that he is starting to realize Jim is equal and slavery is