Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish friar, arrested for providing a shelter for Jews and sent to Auschwitz. In the camp, ten Jews were ordered to starve for three weeks. Kolbe, not being one of the men, offered himself for another Jew’s place . In the end of an abhorrent three weeks, he and three others survived (Jewish virtual Library 1-2). Just like Jim in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Maximilian saw that one’s life was more valuable than his own, even if that meant sacrifice. Although Jim is an uneducated slave, he assimilates a Christ like figure by sacrificing his life for others and by being discriminated by the community. Because Jim ran away from his life as a slave, he must stay in hiding. Jim saw Tom in pain from a gunshot “and [he]
