The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a book that is thought of as one of the greatest books of all time in America. Generations upon generations have read, and enjoyed the characters, and story plot of the whole story. One of the best things to do in the books is pay special attention to how the characters change or evolve through out the story with the events that occur to them. The main character, Huck Finn, changes drastically in his opinion to slavery and blacks in America. Huck's racist, degrading attitude toward Jim at the beginning of the novel changes by the forces of Jim's feelings, his wanting of his family to show he was just like a white man, and at the end when Huck finds out that Jim protected him from seeing his dead father.
             An event that greatly changed the opinion about blacks was when he decided to be mean intentionally to Jim for no reason. Huck says, "It made me feel so mean I could almost kissed his foot to get him to take it back"(89). This line shows how Huck feels horrible even for a black as a southern boy. It took almost fifteen minutes just to get the gull to say sorry to a black runaway slave (89). Huck is gradually, slowly but surely being evolved into a tolerant person. This shows he is capable of changing in the right conditions into a better person. Huck says that he would not have been mean to Jim if he had known that it would make him feel like so awful (89). Jim is Huck's friend and he does not realize this until his southern conscious catches up with him and he realizes what he is doing freeing a slave.
             The fact that Jim, opposed to popular southern belief, had feelings was shown a lot in the story and it definitely played a giant impact in the opinion evolution by Huck. At one point in the story, chapter 16, Jim and Huck realize that when they get to Cairo Jim will be free. Jim said that the first thing he would do when was free wa
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