Jim's Influence In Huckleberry Finn

In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huckleberry Finn is an uneducated, wild, young boy but he is also kind, smart, and loyal. Growing up, Huckleberry Finn never had a stable life. His father is a drunk who abandons him and nothing is said about his mother. As a result, Huckleberry relies on his society and friends for support. Tom, for example, gives Huck someone who he can relate to and have fun with. Jim, on the other hand, is a father figure to Huckleberry. Jim provides Huckleberry with support, love, and stability he didn’t have earlier in life. Consequently, Jim’s influence affects Huckleberry’s actions, values, and conscientious more than anyone else. Even though, Huckleberry ’s society teaches him that black people are inferior to

He writes a note to Ms. Watson telling her the location for Jim but was unable to send the note. While he was looking for inner strength and something to turn him against Jim, he remembers “Him standing my watch on top of his’n, ‘stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times (CITATION).” Huckleberry realizes that because of Jim, he has found love in life. This revelation makes him keep his promise and make the important decision to go to hell rather than turning Jim in. Jim had made such a strong positive influence on Huckleberry that made him incapable of turning against him. It made Huckleberry royal to Jim and be willing to defend Jim in anything. The strong bond between resulted in Huckleberry for the first time turning away from his society’s teaching and following his heart and

This was important at the end when Huck was debating on his action plan after Jim was sold back into slavery by the King and the Duke.He could either choose to abandon Jim or he could try and save him from captivity. This was a time when Huck thought about his friendship with Jim. He remembers all the time with Jim when he “would always call me honey, and pet me, and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had smallpox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he's got now.” These positive and sweet thoughts of Jim’s character makes Huck choose to save him rather than abandon him. If Jim had been rude, careless or cold towards him, Huck would’ve never made the decision to save him. Instead, remembering all their times together forces him to make a moral decision which is against his society’s laws and morals. Huck knows that leaving Jim in captivity would be immoral behavior on his part because Jim had done so much for him. Jim’s positive and good nature character is the thing that forces Huck to make a moral decision to save