A person’s family has the ability to make them a great or terrible person. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, relationships affect Finn in positive and negative ways. The beginning of the novel, portrays Huck as a very rebellious, rude and inconsiderate person. However, as the story develops, Huck transforms into an entirely different person. All of his relationships, improve one of his bad qualities and transform him into a new person.
The first relationship that Huck has teaches him manners and to believe that he has a future ; however, his second relationship completely makes Huck lose hope in an education, and start doing things for himself, because he the guardian is never there for him. The Widow Douglass has custody …show more content…
Huck grows so close to him that he helps him escape slavery. Throughout the journey Huck hides Jim from passing boats and suspicious people they meet along the way. The boys set off for Cairo, where Jim will be a free man. Huck’s relationship with Jim changes his perspective on life. He at one point struggles with whether or not to turn Jim in, because society considers that the right thing, but Huck knows in his heart that it is not. He feels sorry that Jim is separated from his family and wants to help him reunite with them. But a mist all of this drama, Huck realizes that Jim has become a dear and true friend. For example, every time that Jim and Huck are separated they reunite and continue their adventures on the river. Huck’s relationship with Jim is changing and transforming him the most, because his relationship with Jim makes him realize how grateful he should be to have a family that loves and cares for him, food on the table and a father that unknowingly teaches him how to be the independent young man that he becomes at the end of the …show more content…
Living with the widow and Ms. Watson taught him the importance of manners, education and knowing the Lord. The Grangerfords, demonstrated to Huck what a loving family looks like and what it means to love someone enough to sacrifice their own. His relationship with Jim, helped him realized that he should have never been disrespectful but grateful for the other relationships that he had. Jim did not have a family to look out for and take care of him. Nor, did he have the opportunity to receive an education. However, Pap Finn’s neglect towards his son, made Huck a strong and independent person. His relationships with The Widow, Ms. Watson, his father and the Grangerfrods, with the help of positivity from Jim, form a caring, considerate, and grateful person by the end of the