Huck Finn Superstitions

In the book “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn”, By Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn realizes that there are so many conflicts in the society such as: cruelty, racism, profit off slavery and corrupted religion. He believes that there is a connection that they can make, the similarities he shares with jim, and the equality that is not given to the slaves, he notices these things as they journey down the river. First off, The things that they believe, the superstitions that they say are basically as if they were twins, they have so much in common. Secondly, Huck notices that black-slaves expresses their feelings, the same way all people do. Last but not least, Jim is running away for the freedom so that he can save his family from these folks that

When they first meet each other on the island, they are very happy to see each other because they had been alone for several of days. As the book goes on, we learn that the reason why they are running away is to get away to from the past. Their end goals might be different but everything else is the same. They both have an abusive life and does not have anyone to turn to. They turn and depend on each other as they sail down the river. The thoughts that they share have so much in common, they’re very superstitious, and the theory of thought of freedom. From spiders crawling up your body, meaning a bad luck and throwing salt over the shoulders to prevent bad luck from happening. There are more similarities than the differences and that is how they got along so well. The similarities they share like the superstition, they grew closer together because they start to believe in the same mysteries. They both believe that if they can get away, they will have a happier life rather than if they went back, and as for Jim, he would be a runaway slave and will be separated from his family either ways. These things that they share makes them a good

In the beginning of the book, Huck thinks that they’re nothing alike, comparing to slaves is a lowest thing that a white male can do in the 1800’s. As the book progresses, when they’re stuck in a fog with a rapid river, they lose each other. Hours goes by, both worrying if they made it out alive, at the end, Huck finds Jim sleeping; then Huck tricks jim into thinking that they were together the whole time that it was a dream, but jim figures out that Huck was lying to him. Huck says, “I would’ve never done it…” He immediately regrets what he had done and apologies. By then, Huck figures out that Jim feels the same way as any other people would in that situation, this show that Jim worries and cares about Huck. The similarities that they share proves that all people are equal and even uneducated Huck realizes that they share the same feelings. Huck is not well educated do to the conditions he was in, but even for a uneducated teenager, he realizes that people in the world are selfish. What he has been taught conflicts the truth that he believes and he struggles a lot. Looking at jim running away from Ms.Watson, and huck helping Jim contradicts the way he has been taught. He follows his instinct in the end but he thinks he is going to “hell” for the decision he makes, the school/church teaches that they should never help a runaway slave and that is what huck has learned and grew up with. But he realizes the fact