Personal Narrative: Jim's Journey

I must say, you’ve really come quite a long way from where you started. I was a little weary of you at first. In your early adventures, I found you to be an immature boy with a heart for mischief. Maybe it wasn’t just that you liked trouble, but you always seemed to find yourself in the midst of it. If I were you I would have stayed with the widow. Nice clothes, a good education, and someone to take care of you? Why would you throw it away? That being said, however, I think you would’ve always wondered what life outside of that could have been like. Also, it wasn’t your fault your dad had a drinking problem and locked you up in that cabin. Let me take a moment here to say that you’re the bravest twelve-year old I’ve ever known. I would have been so …show more content…
I don’t believe it’s any coincidence that you ran into Jim, either. You both needed each other in your journeys. Huck, you needed a companion that was going to teach you what true friendship was like. Jim cared for you in a way that you had never been shown. Your father and the widow never truly cared for you the way Jim did. Jim’s love for you was without want, without rules, and without asking anything in return. You could have easily turned him in, but I think the friendship you formed with him was worth “going to hell for.” What you did by realizing he had a family that he cared for and seeing that he was a real person too shows great depth and maturity. I wonder what your life would have turned out to be like without your trip down the river. You found yourself in the most unlikely of places, Huck. Not only did you find yourself, but I think you helped countless people find themselves through reading your story. You are an inspiration. Your story is timeless and loved by people from generation to generation. Thank you.