Huck Finn The Value Of Friendship

The Value of Friendship
During this long journey, Huckleberry Finn discovers that his friendship with Jim is more important than to fulfill society's goals. I refer to the adventure as a long journey because they get to live together so many experiences that helps them develop this strong relationship. Throughout this adventure, they become less aware of the circumstances, if they get caught violating societal expectations. This happens because they both have a set goal of becoming a free man. Huck is not being targeted because he is white, but Jim is because he is black. Huck does not have that obligation of hiding because to society he is considered a free man. It might be acceptable to believe that Huck becomes much wanted as Jim since …show more content…
Like most societies, if the members are not following the expected rules the consequences are most likely punishments. Huck does not really know what can happen to him if another white person sees him helping Jim, but he certainly believes that he can get in trouble. Huck does not have to protect Jim or have him in his life, but he wants to. Before Huck meets Jim, he is always wandering around and feeling lonely, and now that he has Jim as a true companion he does not feel alone anymore. Huck is always experiencing new things, but since he develops this friendship with Jim, he kind of shows that he wants things to stay how they are. The fact that Huck risks his life at all times give us reasons to think that he values his friendship with Jim because what else it can be? If there are not other reasons for him to risk his life as he …show more content…
Because if we ask ourselves, what Pap really contributes to the story in general? we cannot say for sure. The only reason that I can find of why Pap is mentioned in the story is to let the readers know how hard Huck's life has been and how lonely he is. In most of the parts, Huck is the one who protects Jim. He is acting straight up as a friend. The fact that Huck does not have a real family does not mean that he sees Jim as a parent. Jim never acts as a parent with Huck. Parents are supposed to protect you in a way. We can see that Huck is always trying to protect Jim from getting caught, and that does not mean that Jim sees him as his father or something. It is for sure that Huck cares about Jim because he never leave him alone during the entire time that he was hiding, but that does not give us enough evidence to prove that he sees him as a parental figure. Huck does loves Jim, but loving a friend is different than loving a parent and we never see how he loves him as a