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Jim In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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Jim the Extraordinary Friend

Jim is an extraordinary friend to Huckleberry Finn. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, Jim is an extraordinary friend to Huckleberry Finn. Jim is an extraordinary friend, he is compassionate, he stays up and takes Huck’s shift to stand guard and watch the raft, he is loyal, sacrificing himself for Tom Sawyer, Huck’s Friend, he is protective of Huck, not letting him see Pap Finn’s dead body. Firstly Jim is a wonderful friend because he shows compassion toward Huck, when he takes Huck’s shift to be on watch while they are running away from their town, St.Petersburg, Missouri, on the Mississippi River. “I had the middle watch, you know, but I was pretty sleepy by that time, so Jim he said he would stand the first half of it for me; he was always mighty good that way, Jim was.”(p.127) Jim is taking over Huck’s watch because he is tired and Jim pitties him. …show more content…

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Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain attacks the institution of slavery, by allowing readers to feel empathy for Jim through showing his fears and concerns about running away from Ms.Watson, and the friendship between Jim and Huck. Mark Twain uses Jim to criticize the ideas of slavery society held onto from before the Civil War by causing readers to feel sympathy for him. This can first be seen on page 45 when Jim admits to Huck why he ran away, “She always said she wouldn sell me.. I hear ole misus tel de widder she gwyne to sell me down to Orleans,” (Twain 45). Jim’s fear of being sold shows a side of the slave trade no slave owner ever recognized.

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Huck thinks about Miss Watson and how he is betraying her by helping Jim escape. Huck encounters slave catchers and he is internally whether to tell about Jim but decides not to and says, “They went and I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and low, because I knowed very well I had done wrong, and I see it warn’t no use for me to try to learn to do right; a body that don’t get started right when he’s little ain’t got no show -- when the pinch comes there ain’t nothing to back him up and keep him to his work, and so he gets beat” (Twain 102). Then later in the novel Jim is sold by some con men for $40 which upsets Huck and causes him to realize he cares about Jim and says, “All right, then I’ll GO to hell” (Twain 225). Huck is defying society’s laws by deciding to help captured Jim. Huck is maturing significantly because his perception of Jim has changed.

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