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 morning Huck wakes to find Jim bemoaning over his daughter 'Lizabeth who Jim once scolded for not closing a door when he told her and later found out she was deaf from scarlet fever. Huck risks his life to free Jim even though he knows it's against what society believes. One theme that really appears to stand out in the novel is that of the friendship between Huck and Jim. This will define their friendship throughout the novel. 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 public showing of Jim's remorse for hurting his daughter begins to show Huc!k that even blacks have emotions and that Jim has the potential to be held to level of whites. These two themes combined to develop and complete a mature view of human experience for Huck as a person and how he sees Jim. En all you wuz thinkin', bout wuz how you could make a fool uv ole Jom wid a lie. Huck actually feels sorry for this act and after awhile apologizes to 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. Jim as seen by Huck at the beginning of novel is not equal to him, but as their friendship grows this changes. 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'. This shows that Jim thinks of Huck as his friend and that friends should not pl!ay games with each other's feelings. 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. By the end of the novel Huck is a new man, he has claimed his own morals and conscience.
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