While on the raft Huck gains the courage to apologize to Jim after learning that his tricks he played on Jim emotionally damaged him.Huck tricks Jim into believing that he fell asleep and dreamed up the fog incident. Jim realizes that he wasn't sleeping and is disturbed and genuinely hurt by Huck because Jim was worried that Huck was lost and hurt. This is the first time Huck realizes how much Jim cares for him and how destroyed he would be if anything happened to his friend Huck. Huck now knows that his trick went out of hand and he works himself up to apologize to him, which is hard to do because Jim is an “N”. In Huck's surrounding society it is extremely frowned upon to apologize to an “N”, let alone help them escape slavery. Huck
