Argumentative Essay On Huckleberry Finn

Throughout Mark Twain’s, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, I enjoyed reading the parts about how close Huck and Jim were getting throughout their adventures together. The instant Huck and Jim found themselves both escaping the same pain and never wanting to go back to these pains, I knew that they would overcome the fact that Huck was a young American boy and Jim was an older, middle-aged African American slave. During this time period, a slave and young white boy were not the average type of friends. It was not such a big deal for Jim, since he was already on the bottom of the social pole, but for Huck, it seemed to be in the back of his mind because of the fact that he could be in trouble if he was found trying to escape with a runaway slave. During Huck and Jim’s adventure down the Mississippi River, the two run into men named the Duke and the King. Jim and Huck do not like these men, but

Right in the beginning of this story, Huck said, “I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead” (3). Huck was friends with Tom Sawyer, but Tom had other friends who would not accept him. Once Huck finds Jim on the island he says, “I was ever so glad to see Jim. I wasn’t lonesome now” (44). As I read this part, I knew that Jim and Huck would become good friends. Although Huck still saw Jim as slave, Huck wanted to keep him around so that he would not be alone. He just wanted a friend and for once, Huck was finally going to have a true friend, whether he knew it at the time or not. Eventually Jim states to Huck “Pooty soon I’ll be a-shout’n’ for joy, en I’ll say, it’s all on accounts o’ Huck; I’s a free man, en I couldn’t ever ben free ef it hadn’ ben for Huck; Huck done it. Jim won’t ever forgit you, Huck; you’s de bes’ fren’ Jim’s ever had; en you’s de only fren’ ole Jim’s got now” (92). At this point Huck finally accepted Jim as human and not a slave. This is when the true friendship of Huck and Jim