How Does Twain Present Jim's Belief In Huckleberry Finn

During Mark Twain’s historical fiction novel, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Jim, a slave, takes a leap of faith for his own freedom. Twain reveals Jim’s truly noble beliefs and tells a story of a hardworking father who is not only set on freeing his own sons from slavery, but also Huck from his preconceived beliefs on equality. Twain wants to show that people of color aren't just shells of people, they are actual human beings.

Twain shows Jim's journey as he changes from slave to Huck’s mentor and sacrifices a lot for Huck. This relationship shows that even though that two people can come from very different stories, they can still become friends. During the start of the story, Jim shows that he not only cares about Huck but also others.

Twain uses this to show that slaves are human beings. Marx states ”besides, what does one say about Jim? There can be no doubt that Mark Twain wants us to admire him; he is a sympathetic, loving, self-abnegating, even saintly, ‘Christ-like’ man.”(Marx) Twain wants the reader to admire Jim because he is the main point of his commentary on slavery and he does it by having people sympathize with Jim. After Jim and Huck reunite after being separated by the fog , Huck explains how Jim looked was tired, almost looking like he had been searching for Huck the whole time they were apart. “When I got to it Jim was setting there with his head down between his knees, asleep, with his right arm hanging over the steering-oar.” (Twain 116) When Huck wakes up Jim, Jim says “En you ain' dead—you ain' drownded—you's back agin? It's too good for true, honey, it's too good for true.” (Twain 116) showing that Jim was excited because his friend was not dead, which means that he probably was thought Huck had died and was most likely depressed. Marx commentates that ”[Jim] drops his habitual pose of docility, if it is a pose, and angrily denounces Huck for making him the victim of a cruel joke.“ This is one of the only times we see Jim get frustrated, with anybody, showing that Jim has human feelings. When Huck tries to convince Jim that he was dreaming, and Jim finds out that Huck is lying, Jim becomes untrustful of Huck, but then Huck, who grew up being above slaves, goes to apologize, showing that Huck is starting to realize that Jim is a human being too. Lamothe states ”Huck learns to shed his prejudices and to see Jim as a human being, not an inferior run-away slave. Jim proves to be a wise and caring friend.” Jim is not just a symbol for racism and equality, but also a symbol for change, changing Hucks views on his past experiences of slavery.Twain uses Jim