Huck And Jim Character Analysis

Throughout Huck’s adventures he encounters the struggle with his conscience and how he will resolve the problems that come about between his "heart and head." Many times Huck was torn between whether to listen to his heart or head. Throughout these encounters in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn it helps Huck become a more mature person. While Jim and Huck were travelling on the river one evening it began to get foggy. This resulted in Huck and Jim getting separated. Both of them had to travel alone for one night. When morning came Huck and Jim were reunited. Jim started explaining what had happened throughout the night. Huck told Jim that everything is just a dream. The two never left each other during the night. The situation aggravated Jim because he knew that Huck was trying to

As he had time to think he realized that he was unsure about helping Jim escape. It was illegal for Jim to escape. Jim was Miss Watson’s slave. Huck said Jim had no right to leave, she didn’t do anything wrong to him. Jim’s head was telling him it was not right to help Jim escape, but his heart was not going to let him turn Jim in. Huck says, “But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could ‘a’ paddled ashore and told somebody (80).” This explains the struggle that Huck is faced with. He could have easily went and found someone to tell about Jim, but he was not able to bring himself to do that. Huck is trying to justify his acts for letting a slave escape. Jim said something that really bothered Huck. He said that if he was unable to buy his children back that he would go steal them. Huck knew this was not right and did not like that Jim mentioned something about stealing. The ironic part is that Huck used to steal quite often himself. He used to stay he was just borrowing, but really he was stealing. Huck’s conscience about the topic of stealing shows he is maturing with