In the novel Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, the conflict between a slave and a white male during the time of slavery in the South is immensely relevant. In the beginning, Huck was a young boy who decided to run away, and decides to take a slave named Jim with him. Additionally, the two boys are trying to get to freedom; Jim’s freedom is from slavery and Huck from his alcoholic father. The idea of a sound heart defeats a deformed conscience is extremely pertinent in chapters fifteen and thirty-one, mainly between Huck’s attitude towards Jim. Within chapter fifteen the attitude between Huck and Jim ultimately begins to shift, which is a fundamental point in the novel. Twain wrote “When I got to it Jim was setting there with his head down between his knees, …show more content…
Huck uses a cover story to find out more information about where Jim was, which is “I run across him in the woods about an hour or two ago, and he said if I hollered he’d cut my livers out- and told me to lay down and stay where I was; and I done it”(Twain). Subsequently, Huck had an internal conflict once he recovered information about where Jim was. The conflict he was facing was between writing Jim’s old slave owner to get him, which would have resulted in saving himself; or he could break Jim out himself but this would cause Huck to be a sinner. Twain said “So I left, and struck for the back country. I didn’t look around, but I kinder felt like he was watching me”(Twain). Huck knew that by going to get Jim it was going to cause him to be looked down upon by others, and that he was going to have to be careful. Also, Huck knew that he was being lied to about where Jim was being held at, and did not care about having to go out of his way to get to him. Jim was stuck in a situation and needed Huck to help him out of it, and that is exactly what Huck decided to