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Huck Finn And Jim's Relationship

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The beginning of Huck Finn by Mark Twain starts with a young boy Huck Finn, and tells how his life was before, also why he is who he is. Huck Finn one night suck out to meet with Tom Sawyer, but were being to noisy and a slave named Jim came outside. What Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn did for a joke on Jim they put his hat on a branch. Though Huck Finn was nicer in a way unlike Tom Sawyer because he wanted to do more to Jim. By the first interaction between Huck Finn and Jim, there isn’t anything special but you can see a small friendship brewing. It might be hard to see at first because slaves in a way were still treated somewhat like family, but doesn’t have full respect from the white. So this complicates Huck’s and Jim’s relationship, but …show more content…

Jim tried helping with Huck by giving him a fortune and one things jim said was that “Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne sick;but every time you’s gwyne git well ag’in.”(Twain 18). Which made Huck feel a little more confident with his life and his Pap.So after the incidnet that happened with Huck and his Pap, Huck pretended to be dead and hid on Jackson Island from everyone. Huck seen people looking for him and felt bad the widow and others that was looking for him were upset. Then a few day Huck seen Jim come to Jackson Island and Jim thought Huck was a ghost, but Huck learned that Jim escaped. The reason Jim escaped was because Miss Watson was thinking of selling Jim to a slave trader for eight hundred dollars. So Jim left before Miss Watson made up her mind, whether to sell him or not. While Huck and Jim are the island, they both try to help each other out. Like Huck helping hid Jim, so he isn’t seen. Or Jim watching out for Huck and says to be careful to Huck and to not get more bad luck. Also there is joking, like …show more content…

Huck and Jim just work well together and are good friends. Huck wanted to go to the shore to get information and Jim agreed, Since technically everyone thought Huck was dead, Jim suggested to dress as a girl, so nobody would recognize him, When Huck got to the island he met a woman who was suspicious of him and figured out he was a man, but Huck lied who he was and she said if you need come find me. Also while Huck was there though, he learned people wanted Jim and some people were going to the island at night with guns, to kill Jim. So Huck helps Jim escape and drift downriver during the night and hide during the day. While going downriver, Huck and JIm happened to come by a wrecked steamship with robbers on it. Huck decides to go on the wrecked steamship, against Jim’s objections, to loot and go on an adventure like Tom Sawyer said. When Huck did this, he was just kinda thinking about himself but how he grew, was that he was superior to the slaves and he didn’t know any better, Later Huck

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