There is no doubt that Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was the beginning of an era. This novel was “the start to American literature”. Huckleberry Finn took place in 1835-1845 in the Mississippi River Town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. There were many other locations along the river in Arkansas traveled during the novel by the two main characters Huck and Jim. The story began with Huck Finn as a young boy who lived with the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, who tried to civilize Huck throughout the first few chapters. Huck says he doesn’t want to be civilized because his friend Tom Sawyer is not. Huck’s father “Pap” takes him to an island and doesn’t let him leave, so Huck escapes on a raft and begins his journey down the Mississippi River. Along the way, Huck finds a runaway slave named Jim, who he knew because that was Miss Watson’s slave. Jim and Huck met many new people and places on their adventure. At the end of the novel Jim realized after all of the trouble he had gone through to become free that he had been set free in Miss Watson’s will when she passed away. Huck viewed Jim in three different ways. In the novel Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Huck Finn sees Jim as a friend, father figure, and a slave. Huck sees Jim and knows that he will “awluz” be his friend. Huck notices that Jim does everything he could think of for …show more content…
Everyone else they come by in the novel sees Jim as just some runaway nigger but Huck does not. One time, though, Huck and Jim came across two men. Jim hid and Huck went to talk to them. Huck thought about giving him up because if Huck got caught helping a slave get to freedom, it would not be good for him or Jim. When Huck saw the men he realized that he was Jim’s friend and said he would go to hell before bringing him back to slavery. Even this little incident shows that Huck never forgot that Jim began as a slave, but he did not want him to end as one