Huck does not consciously think about Jim's impending freedom until Jim himself starts to get excited about the idea. The reader sees Huck's first objection to Jim gaining his freedom on page 66, when Huck says, "Well, I can tell you it made me all over trembly and feverish, too, to hear him, because I begun to get it through my head that he was most free-and who was to blame for it? Why, me. I could get that out of my conscience, no how nor no way." Huck is hearing the voice of society at this point, not his own. He does not see a moral dilemma with Jim being free; he is opposed to the fact that he is the one helping him. This shows Huck misunderstanding of slavery. Huck does not treat Jim like a slave when they travel together, this shows the reader that Huck views Jim as an equal in most ways. Huck sees having a slave o

nly as owning the person, not actually being a slave to someone. Therefore, when he helps Jim runaway it would be like stealing. This conscience is telling him that Miss Watson, Jim's master, never did anything wrong to him and that he shouldn't be doing a wrong to her by helping Jim escape. This is a totally different view of Miss Watson from Huck's perspective. Huck always disliked Miss Watson, but now that this society voice plays a part in Huck's judgment his views are changed. This society views allows Huck to see Jim, a friend, only as a slave and Miss Watson, almost a foe in his young views, as a dear friend. Twain is showing the reader the gross injustices of slavery in this little incident, as well as his moral opposition to slavery. Twain wants the reader to see how slavery ideology changed people, even those who didn't understand it fully. Twain wants the reader to see how unfair slavery was in how it could even change Huck's thinking, whom the reader had never before seen voice ill conceptions about black people. When Huck's mind can be so radically changed to such opposing ideas and morals, the reader sees these horrors plainly and knows Twain's opposition to slavery is right.

Twain's morals are clearly shown through this short, but hugely important, passage. I think his morals were bold for his t

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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)