This text from the book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" proves to be a pivotal moment in the plot-line. We see here in this text that Huckleberry is finally coming to the realization that his friend, Jim, a runaway slave, expresses the same emotions as a white man. Considering the time period this book was set in, in which African Americans were deemed as an inferior class of humans, this moment in Huckleberry's life would have been quite scandalous for his time period. The author uses this text as a moment of personal growth for both Jim and Huckleberry Finn. Jim, feeling ever closer to freedom and life as a free man, is slowly gaining confidence in himself, and becoming more outspoken. Meanwhile, Huckleberry Finn grows humility, as well
