Huckleberry’s View of Slavery In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, the protagonist, Huckleberry Finn, was conflicted about Jim’s slavery. Throughout the story, Huck was taught by society that slavery was normal and a good thing. However, throughout his journey with Jim, a runaway slave, he learns that he must go with his beliefs instead of society’s. At the beginning of the novel, Huck tricks Jim by convincing him he was dreaming about the fog and the disappearance of Huck, “I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d ‘a’ knowed it would make him feel that way” (91). After Jim found out Huck tricked him he said that he was an awful person causing Huck to realize that Jim has …show more content…
This changes Huck's viewpoint of slavery by causing Huck to believe that Jim is not an object and deserves to have his freedom. While Jim and Huck travel down the Mississippi they run into a group of men searching for runaway slaves. Huck lies to the men saying his dad was onboard and had smallpox. Afterward, he thought, “... s’pose you’d ‘a’ done right and give Jim up, would you felt better than what you do now? No, says I, I’d feel bad-I’d feel just the same way I do now” (97). This shows how Jim being a slave is a conflict for Huck. This is because people back then were supposed to turn in any runaway slave, no matter what. However, Huck believes that Jim’s freedom is valuable and doesn’t deserve to be enslaved especially when he told Huck he was his only friend. Near the end of the book, Huck was in a predicament about whether or not to turn in Jim to Miss Watson, and in the end, Huck decided to help Jim escape from slavery. According to Twain, “And for a starter I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again,” (205). This quote is a huge turning point in Huck’s view of slavery. Huck believes that slavery is inhumane and should be banned even if