Huck Finn 3
In Mark Twain's novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain develops the plot into Huck and Jim's adventures along the Mississippi River. The two main characters, Huck and Jim, both run from social injustice and both are distrustful of the civilization around them. Huck is considered an uneducated uncivilized boy, constantly under pressure to conform to the humanized surroundings of society. Jim, a slave, is not even considered as a real person, but as property. These two characters grow both as individuals and together throughout the book. Their relationship becomes imperative to the plot of the story.The first encounter of the two characters happens in chapter two, "Our Gang's Dark Oath". Huck sneaks out in the middle of the night to meet up with Tom Sawyer in order to convene with their "gang of robbers". As they are sneaking away, they make enough noise to attract the attention of Jim, Miss Watson's black slave. He comes out of the kitchen to see what caused the noise, and sits down in the dark to wait for it to happen again, but quickly gets tired and falls asleep. As he falls asleep, Huck wants to leave and meet the rest of the gang so that they don't get caught, but Tom insists on playing a trick on Jim. So h
Chapter 14, "Was Solomon Wise?", also shows how tolerable Huck has become of Jim. After an argument, Huck obviously has won the dispute and is correct, but he leads Jim to believe that he is the one who is correct. Huck gives in without winning the argument. "I see it warn't no use wasting words-you can't learn a nigger to argue. So I quit" (80). This shows that Huck is willing to lose a argument to a slave, and Jim feels comfortable enough to argue with a white person until he wins. "When I got all wore out wid work, en wid de callin for you, en went to sleep, my heart wuz mos' broke bekase you wuz los', en I didn' k'yer no' mo' what become er me en de raf'. En when I wake up en fine you back ag'in, all safe en soun', de tears come , en I could 'a' got down on my knees en kiss yo' foot, I's so thankful. En all you wuz thinkin' 'bout wuz how you could make a fool uv ole Jim wid a lie. Dat truck dah is trash; en trash is what people is dat puts dirt on de head er dey fren's en makes 'em ashamed" (86). Their friendship is tested throughout the rest of the book right up until the end when Huck makes the most important decision in the book. Sitting on his raft, while Jim has been captured and is being held with Tom Sawyer's Aunt and Uncle, Huck must decide whether to go to hell, or to help his friend Jim. Huck knows that if he helps Jim, he would certainly go to hell, and if he doesn't help Jim and writes a letter to Miss Watson telling her the whereabouts of Jim, he will be captured and returned to slavery. Huck goes against everything that he knows is proper and decides to help Jim. "All right, then, I'll go to hell" (214). This simple quote shows that they have truly become friends and would do anything to help one another, even to the extent of going to hell. Without making it crystal clear to the reader at first, Huck and Jim have decided to be outcasts together and take to the Mississippi River for a chance at a better life. Their trip down the Mississippi takes Huck and Jim on many adventures that bring them closer. An instance of this is shown in Chapter 10, "What Comes of Handlin' Snake-skin". Huck tries to play a j
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Approximate Word count = 1454
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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