When Huck crosses paths with Jim, he sees him as an equal; " I was ever so glad to see Jim. I warn't lonesome now." Being this concerned for a slave was a shunned idea and it took a lot of

intelligence and free-thinking to accept a 'nigger' as an equal. Though today, equal rights seems like a simple concept, Huck's society told him that whites were superior and to free a slave is theft. Huck struggles with society's morals when his God-given instincts provide the better guidance. Huck writes a letter to Miss Watson to return Jim, but he ends up ripping the letter and decides to free Jim. "'All right, then, I'll go to hell'-- and he tore it up." Here, we see society has tainted Huck's conscience so that he believe he will go to hell for freeing a slave.

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Of all the people trying to change Huck, the one who was most effective was Tom Sawyer. Tom was the one person Huck couldn't force himself to contradict. Huck felt inferior to Tom because he was, "sivilized." Yet he looked up to him because he knew so much. Huck even a

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