Huck And Jim's Relationship

The novel, Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, is a story of a young boy and a slave who ran away from their homes in search of freedom. Even though they were running away from home, they both wanted the same thing. They grew a strong relationship together throughout the book. Jim became the main adult figure in Huck Finn’s life, helping to make decisions but making sure to not be strict like Huck’s home. I think that part of the reason Huck liked Jim so much was because even though Jim was older, he was african-american so Huck felt like he was not being controlled. Huck and Jim got along better than anyone else in the book and by the end of the story they had an unbreakable bond. They end up going through so much together that they become great friends who care about each other, a characteristic that Jim is not very used to from white people.

They only time where Mark wrote about it was when Huck talked to Jim. “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger--but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither,” (page 81). This was one of the largest parts in the book where there was a clear part where Huck showed a little bit of racism. This was a very small part to the book which shows how much Huck did not really care that Jim was african-american or a slave. Huck got over the little bit of racism that I think he picked up from his father,