When parents get divorced, each parent can raise his or her child differently, and the child's beliefs may conflict, as he or she is hearing two different things. This sort of conflicting upbringing is apparent in the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The main character, Huck, originally raised by his father, later goes to live with the Widow Douglas, who tries to "sivilize" Huck. Also in the house lives Miss Watson who owns a slave, Jim. Between Pap, the Widow and Miss Watson, Huck becomes aware of many different ideas and beliefs, especially about slavery. When Huck escapes Pap, he runs into Jim on Jackson Island, where Huck is faced with a moral dilemma. Jim reveals to Huck that he has runaway, but Huck has promised, "not to tell." Huck agrees to help Jim get to freedom. He sometimes feels that what he is doing is wrong, but other times he looks beyond the fact that Jim is a "n***er" and sees him as his friend. Throughout the novel Huckleberry Finn, Huck faces an internal conflict with his conscience on the topic of slavery.

In the beginning of the novel, Huck goes back and forth between "sivilized" life with the Widow and Miss Watson, and life with Pap. Huck's "si

Since one of the main reasons Huck rejects to turn in Jim is because of their friendship, Twain develops the internal conflict by strengthening the bond between the two, while at the same time, allowing Huck to have outside hindrances. Throughout most of the story, Huck views Jim as a "n***er" and not so much as a person. As the adventures continue, Twain "humanizes" Jim. Huck's initial view of African American slaves is clear when Huck says Jim was "pretty level headed for a n***er". This view of Jim changes as the story goes on and Huck accepts Jim as being more than a "n***er". Chapter 23 represents a point in the novel where Twain strengthens the relationship between the two by "humanizing" Jim, as blacks in those days were regarded as sub-human. This is seen through Jims story about his daughter Lizabeth. After Jim's story Huck says, " I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n. It don't seem natural, but I reckon it's so." (Pg. 170) Twain's humanizing of Jim forges a tighter bond between the two. The value of their relationship is exemplified through Huck's attitude when he finds out the King and Duke sold Jim. At first Huck is angered because Jim was his property, and he felt that he was to blame for Jim being sold. "...here was the plain hand of Providence slapping me in the face and letting me know my wickedness was being watched all of the time..." (Pg. 233) Through Huck's struggle with his conscience, he becomes aware of Jim's worth as a human being, and not property. This chapter, Chapter 31, is the moral climax of the story, and also the point of Huck's biggest struggle with his conscience on the topic of slavery. When he finds out Jim has been sold, he is torn, and feels that it is his fault; he helped a slave escape and now "the plain hand of Providence" is punishing him. Although Huck is extremely angry at the two frauds, he does not care about retaliating; he just wants Jim back. The fact that he wants Jim back so much shows how Huck no longer sees Jim a property, he can fully look at him as his companion, and this is t

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