As Huck’s and Jim’s friendship begins to blossom, Huck is troubled by his morals and is confused whether to help Jim as a friend. Huck’s fight whether to help his new best friend Jim make it to the North to become a free slave or sending a letter to Mrs. Watson in which he tells her where her runaway slave is troubles Huck throughout the novel. Either Huck was afraid to break their friendship or had sympathy for a powerless blackman, Huck and Jim shared a bond in which they both felt the need to save one another. An example would be Huck lying to slave hunters that Huck did not see a single slave pass by. Huck questions himself if it was the right or wrong thing to do and later comes to the conclusion that he feels better helping Jim than sending …show more content…
Due to his innocence, he is influenced by other factors such as the King and Duke. As a thirteen year old boy, he is very independent since he always reflects back showing that he is mature for a thirteen year old boy. Huck matures considerably over the course of the novel. In the beginning, he is not exactly just like everyone else. He is a vagabond who is used to answering to his own drummer. Yet he befriends Jim, finds he has a conscience, learns empathy, and goes on his own way. Huck has a more personal relationship with Jim than others who meet Jim. Huck has known him for a long time, and he has sought Jim's advice on a number of occasions such as the incident with the hairball. When they find themselves on the island together and then journeying on the raft, their relationship grows and changes as we would expect it to. With that change, comes the change of the reader's perspective. Huck has always been taught that black people are property--they are void of feelings, dreams, and intellect. Living with Jim as Huck does in such close proximity teaches him that his beliefs are wrong. Huck has a paradigm shift--a realization that Jim is just like he is, only with black skin. This is what Twain's goal was. He wished to open the eyes of people who were pro slavery to believe what they were taught without finding out firsthand if it were true or not. Jim becomes a friend, not a slave to be bought and sold. Huck's life is changed forever, and so is the life of the