Huckleberry Finn Character Analysis

What does it take to be a respectable member of society? It seems that a person needs to be honest and hardworking with a Christian outlook. A person with good social skills and the ability to carry oneself with a positive attitude towards people in the community is vital. When Mark Twain wrote his story The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn it was late 1884 after the civil war, when tempers were high and mistrust ran rampant. For most people the important thing on everyone’s mind was to rebuild the country and their lives. Twain’s ability to communicate to the world through his words, tried to put the idea that there were still problems in the way society viewed right and wrong, blacks, whites, and just plain out society in general. Huck’s story was an innocent way to entertain the young and to instill a grain of humanity in the

Jim constantly in the story put Huck’s well-being before his own, just like a father. When a child gets lost the fear a parent goes through is unimaginable, but relief at when that same child comes home the weight of the world rises off the parent’s shoulders. Twain writes those fillings when Huck plays his prank on Jim. The way Jim explains his feelings, “When I got all wore out wid work, en wid de callin’ for you, en went to sleep, my heart wuz mos’ broke bekase you wuz los’, en I didn’ k’yer no mo’ what became er me en de raf. En when I wake up en fine you back agin’, all safe en soun’, de tears come en I could a got down on my knees en kiss’ yo’ foot I’s so thankful” (Twain 183). This moment in the story turns Huck’s opinion of Jim. Besides Widow Douglas, Jim is the only other person in Huck’s life that did not ask for anything. They just honestly cared about Huck. Where Huck’s father continuously either physically abused or abandoned him Jim proved throughout the tale that he would still be