In The adventures Huckleberry Finn race plays a significant role in the novel. First and foremost we must look at the time period it is based and written in. During the civil war there arose many stereotypes of African Americans, ranging from not being educated too intellectually inferior and maybe not having any feelings. All qualities Jim does have as a person. Through out the story Huck begins to realize that humanity has nothing to do with race, and questions everything he has been taught in his life, all due to Jim’s character as a person. More than anything he is the most Adult character in the story. Jim’s character is far from the stereotypes portrayed in the novel and maybe what Huck originally thought of him as well. He shows love and compassion for Huck acting a father figure to him, cooking and taking care of him without being to over bearing. One of the first things Jim does to show that he cares for Huck is he prevents Huck from seeing the dead body in chapter 9; which we later find out it was his father Pap (‘‘Come in, Huck, but doan’ look at his face—its too gashly.’’). I think out off all the characters Jim is the most sincere complex character in Huck Finn. Jims is …show more content…
Though Jim was not Huck’s father, one could argue after reading the novel Jim was more of a father figure to Huck than Pap was. After not seeing Huck for a while the way he greets him was not a loving one, “You think you're a good deal of a big-bug, don't you", (lack of compassion) not a human quality. Many times Jim would put Huck and Tom ahead of him self. Jim a runaway slave should have been very cautious in every action of his daily routines. As we read in the book Jim gives up his hard earned freedom to help save the kid also risking his own life in the process. That act alone puts everything into perspective that Jim in fact is the most unselfish, giving human being in the entire