Huck's First Encounter

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Huck's first encounter with Jim happens when the two are both escaping town, and wind up together on an island in the middle of the Mississippi. He struggles over the idea of turning Jim in. He tries to justify the situation because he did not have anything to do with Jim's actual escape. However, he knows that society would not approve of the fact that he didn't turn Jim in. He even tells Jim, "People would call me a low down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum" (p. 46). His struggle over whether to turn in Jim is remarkable. Even though his society has told him that a runaway slave is not a good slave, he questions society's notions and decides



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Approximate Word count = 445
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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