Throughout the story The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huckleberry has many experiences, but in the end, he appears to start and end in the same place. He is living the life of an average boy at the time stuck in a house, without freedom, and forced to act civilized. At the beginning of this book, he starts a gang with his friends, led by Tom Sawyer. This gang has many plans of what they want to do, all of which are unwholesome and foolish ideas. At the beginning of the story The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck has views on robbery, murder, and slavery, but by the end of the book, these views change because of life experiences. In the second chapter of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn sneak out of the house to met …show more content…
Finn does not think twice when he sees a slave at the beginning of the book, but by the end he has to think long and hard about whether or not slavery is a just system. One of the reasons that Huck’s views of slavery change, is because Huck meets plenty of people who are trying to get what is best for themselves, and do not care how they do it. However Huck’s friend Jim appears to be the only respectable person. Jim is honest and loves Huck and watches out for him even though it would be better for Jim to just leave Huck and run away to freedom. Jim helps Huck though the hard times that they are in, and is always at his friend’s side protecting him. Huck later realizes while talking to his slave friend that Jim has a family, but his family was taken away from him to work as slaves in a different area. The main goal that Jim is trying to reach be escaping is to earn a job and buy his wife so that they can work together to buy back their kids. Doing this is hard work, so hard that many of the people that Huck knows would not do it. After seeing these things, Huck starts to realize that slaves are not worse then whites in fact, from his experiences he finds that this slave is more honest then the people he interacts with in day to day