Friendship is the Strongest Help “You can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.” - (Betty Ford) In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim, the runaway slave, and Huck, the romantic idealist, work together to help Jim gain his freedom. Mark Twain explains that not following social conformists, can lead a person to a better moral decision. For example, Huck decides that his friendship with Jim is more important to him than what society thinks. Huck sticks with his heart and goes against the social norm. Overcoming his deformed conscience, gaining friendship, and eventually maturing, all lead Huck to make decisions from his heart. To begin with, Hucks deformed conscience leads him to believe that his decision of befriending Jim was a mistake. Hucks society impacted his conscience to make him believe in the social norms. This is seen when Huck begins to wonder if Jim should be free or not. Although Huck starts to lead his deformed conscience astray, Huck and Jim both get to the point where Jim is almost a free man, and Huck questions himself whether or not he is doing the right …show more content…
Huck goes against social norms, he follows his heart, and stays friends with Jim. The society that Huck is surrounded by leads him to believe that just because Jim is black, that means that Huck cannot be friends with him. Ultimately, Huck's society had changed his conscience to believe in the social norms. In the battle between Huck and Jim’s friendship and society, Huck made the decision of Jim over society. The moment when Huck chose to tear up the letter that was going to turn in Jim, is the moment that Huck turns into a young man. Huck started the novel out as a normal boy who loved playing pranks on Jim. Through Jim and Huck's battles of, not only adversity, but society as well, the friendship had become a bond that could not be