Huck And Jim's Relationship Analysis

The Light of Friendship born on the Mississippi River Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the relationship between Huck and Jim are the main topic of the whole book. They all had their own personality and characteristics.
The relationship between Huck and Jim changes as the story goes on. In the very beginning, it was clear that Huck considers Jim as a slave, on the other hand, Huck did not regard Jim as a normal human like himself. Their relationship changed as they get to know more about each other during the journey. This topic is going to find out how their relationship change along with the story goes on. It was quite a coincidence when Huck and Jim met in Jackson Island. Their relationship started to change for the first time. Huck said: “I was ever so glad to see Jim. I warn 't lonesome now.”(58) From this sentence, a sense of happiness and willingness instead of superiority to stay with Jim has been formed in Huck’s mind. Though Huck was accustomed to being alone before Jim came, in fact, he disliked the feeling of “lonesome”. With the adventure of Jim, Huck started to view Jim as a teammate in this adventure, whose participation was later proved to be of great help to Huck. Even though Huck did not have a notion of superiority to Jim,

As time went by, their relationship was increasingly obvious, which was more like of father and son. Interestingly, Jim did not want Huck to see his real father whose name was Pap. Jim said : “Laws bless you, chile, I 'us right down sho ' youse dead again.” (173) It showed how much Jim cared about Huck. Huck. On the other hand, Huck was lack the care of a father. That’s why Huck completely changed his mind as to his attitude towards Jim. Moreover, Huck uttered “We said there warn 't no home like a raft.” (173) Here, they began to draw a similarity between the raft and their home. In fact, they viewed the raft as their home. Base on the long journeys on the raft, their relationship became