Week 6

Within “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Hick and Jim have one of the most unusual relationships. The setting of the story takes place in the South and during the time period of the story, it is unusual for white men and black men to be friends but Huck and Jim’s friendship dosent stay inside those expectations. When both of them initially got on the raft there was no real connection between them, their only commonality was to get away. But as time went on he grew an unknown liking for Jim, but he ignored it at didn’t admit it. But Jim does the complete opposite, during the novel Jim vividly shows his real emotions about Huck through how he takes care of him and he stated that Huck is one of his best friends. During chapter 31 while Huck is writing the letter to Mrs. Watson, Huck writes about him and Jim’s journey down the river and he realizes slowly as the journey went on his friendship for Jim grew too but he wouldn’t admit it. At the end, instead of sending the letter, he rips it up so that Jim can’t be captured because he dosent want to lose Jim. This small realization that Huck had was the whole reason why Jim was allowed to stay with Huck and he was “freed” from slavery which was big to him.