Huck Humbles Himself Writing Friends are friends for a reason; they are the people we treat with more that just respect or kindness, we treat them to the best of our abilities (or at least we should) because that is what friends do. Evidently, Huck does not quite grasp this concept, since he decides to play a cruel trick on Jim. The morning after getting separated in the fog, Huck finds Jim and convinces him that it had all been a dream and that Huck was on the raft the whole time, he even proposes that perhaps Jim had been drinking. Huck asks Jim to tell him about his “dream,” which Jim does, with added exaggerations and interpretations as well. When he finishes, Huck asks Jim what the rubbish on the raft means, alerting Jim that all of what
