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Huckleberry Finn Character Analysis

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Throughout the book “The adventures of Huckleberry finn” Huck goes from this boy who is very skeptical, but does what he is told, to a very independent and still skeptical character. His multiple experiences with the people he met and all of his actions made him the way he was at the end of the book. All of his encounters helped him develop his own persona. Huck did the right thing even though society did not believe that he did and that he is a criminal. One of huck's very first encounters is when tom and him see jim asleep under the tree. “Tom Whispered to me and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun. But i said no; he might wake and make a disturbance, and then they’d find out i warn’t in” P5.This shows that Huck is a skeptic by not wanting …show more content…

“I was ever so glad to see Jim. I Warn’t so lonesome now.”P41 This shows that huck is acknowledging jim as a human being. If Huck had run into a goat on the island he probably would have said what he did. This is just the start of his evolution of thought. Since they are becoming more friendly, Huck decides to play a funny, friendly prank on Jim. “.... found a rattlesnake there. I killed him’ and curled him up on the foot of Jim's blanket, ever so natural, thinking there would be some fun when Jim found him there.”P52. This is something that some teenagers would do at a sleepover to scare a friend, Huck didn't mean any harm. He sees Jim as a friend now. This scene is a really important one. This is where huck finally realises that he is doing something wrong and starts to think about turning him in. “I’s a free man, en i couldn't ever ben free ef it hadn’ ben for Huck; Huck done it. Jim won't ever forgit you, Huck; you’s de bes’ fren’ Jim’s ever had!”P88. When jim says this it makes huck rethink his decision. He decided that he could never backstab anyone no matter who they were (as long as they are good people). This also shows Huck that jim can show emotion and …show more content…

“Oh, Huck, i bust out a cryn’ en grab her up in my arms, en say, ‘Oh, de po’ little thing!”P156. This adds on to the slow realization that black people aren't just garbage, or cattle. He understands he as morales and feelings of

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Huck now believes that this cannot be the case since he sees Jim having strong familial ties with his own eyes. This example of Jim’s release of the minstrel mask makes Huck gain a higher opinion of him. In chapter 31, with Huck and his letter, he stops to remember that night on the raft when he almost gave Jim away. Jim’s use of his minstrel mask made a lasting impression on Huck because he remembers those words Jim said to him, how grateful he was for Huck to save him, and how he’s his only friend in the

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He thinks it will be funny to prank Jim again so he decides to say that what Jim is saying about the two of them floating away in the fog didn’t actually happen, but that it was merely a dream. Jim believes him until he sees all of the debris on the raft and therefore knows that they have traveled apart and once again come back together. Jim then cannot understand why Huck would do this to him so he gets angry and sad and isolates himself in the wigwam. Huck admits to himself that what he did was wrong and it really hurt his feelings. He does think this but he doesn’t really want to apologize.

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After pranks Jim by putting the snake in his blanket, Huck realizes what he did was wrong and sees Jim’s reaction to his prank, and “It made me feel so mean I could almost kissed his foot to get him to take it back. It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a n*****; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn't do him no more

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This transition is the result of the extended period of time that the two spend together, which allows Huck to look past the differences that he has been taught to observe for his entire life and view Jim for what he is; a fellow man. By the end of this passage, Huck’s resolve to do right by Jim is so strong that he is willing to suffer eternal damnation rather than betray Jim. Perhaps Huck’s most important statement in this passage is “Alright then, I’ll go to hell”; here he decides he’s willing to go to hell for eternity rather than causing Jim to return to his life as a slave. At first Huck just thought of Jim the property of another person, a good to be bought and sold regardless of any evidence that he was a human being. As they travel together, this viewpoint is gradually weakened by examples of Jim’s humanity, culminating in a model shift that goes against everything Huck has been taught about the societal status of a

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Right in the beginning of this story, Huck said, “I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead” (3). Huck was friends with Tom Sawyer, but Tom had other friends who would not accept him. Once Huck finds Jim on the island he says, “I was ever so glad to see Jim. I wasn’t lonesome now” (44). As I read this part, I knew that Jim and Huck would become good friends.

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