Huck Finn
In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the central characters, Huck and Jim, develop a meaningful relationship while journeying down the Mississippi River. Huck's "civilized" idea of Jim is the same as most of the South, which is that Jim is a slave and therefor is less than human. Huck's perception of Jim changes through the unfolding of the novels many themes. This understanding of Jim also helps Huck in the building of his own conscience and character. The conventional morality of the South during Hucks time is that slaves are property and have very little if any rights. This is the type of morality Huck has at the beginning of the novel, but slowly begins to see the truth and how society is wrong. There are two instances that stand out where Huck says that Jim appears to be human or "white inside". In chapter sixteen Jim says that the first thing he would do when he got to a free state would be to save up some money to buy h
------------------------------------------------------------------------ One theme that really appears to stand out in the novel is that of the friendship between Huck and Jim. Huck is at first blind to the idea of Jim being his friend, but as the novel unwinds their friendship progresses and helps Huck in a personal way. The major scene that makes Huck realize what friendship is, is when they are separated in the fog and Huck tricks Jim into thinking it was a dream. Jim in response to this trickery says "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 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 Jom 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". This shows
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Approximate Word count = 666
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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