In the book of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the author Mark Twain uses many ways to show that Huck, the main character, finds family. There are many people that can be considered as family to Huck. But all of the people that Huck met were more of a temporary family than a permanent one. The three families of Huck are with Jim, The Grangerford's, and Aunt Sally's.
             In Twain's book, Jim is a black slave, but Huck doesn't think of Jim as a slave. Jim and Huck are very close friends. Both of them live happy lives together, and share unhappy times as well. They help each other along the way. Huck and Jim are like family to each other. When Jim is captured, Huck decides to save him instead of telling Miss Watson. Huck says, "Thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me, all the time, in the day, and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating along, talking, and singing, and laughing.....and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim every had in the world, and only one he's got now; and then I happened to look around, and see the paper." (pg. 161) The quote shows how much he loves Jim. Huck will do anything to save Jim. Both of them depend on each other.
             He meets the second family after getting an accident with the steamboat but somehow he went to the shore. He didn't know of the Grangerford family until they show this hospitality towards him. But, Huck finds out that family is caught in a feud. But the family still treats him nicely and by treating him like a family. Among the Granderfords, Buck treats him the nicest. He thinks of Huck as a brother. Huck says, "When I got down out of the tree, I crept along do...