In the novel Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain, the main character Huck, goes through extraordinary experiences on his trip down the Mississippi river. He is not alone on this trip, but with a slave named Jim who is running away from his owner so he would not be sold to anyone else. Along the way they both face dangerous tasks but yet still manage to always look out for eachother. Huck fakes his death and runs away from his abusive and drunk father and finds Jim who happens to become his most trusted companion along their journey down the river.
Huck ends up seeing Jim as a father figure, a friend, and even a slave based off of the novel and documents A, E, and B. Huck sees Jim as a father figure because he never got much attention to his real father. His father was known as the town drunk and did abuse Huck time to time. Jim on the other hand, acted very much like a father figure to Huck. Or as much as a father figure he could be to him. For example in document E Huck states that “ He would always called me honey, and pet me, and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was;” Huck kept talking about how Jim was so good to him like no one has ever been. Jim was the father that Huck had never had, and always wanted. …show more content…
Huck always felt the weight of “stealing a slave” on his shoulders. He was told it was wrong and he would go to hell for it. In document E, it is a letter that huck was writing to Mrs.Watson to let her know that he took Jim. It stated “ My wickedness was being watched all the time from up there in heaven, whilst I was stealing a poor old woman's n- that hadn’t ever done me no harm.”Huck still saw Jim as property and as a slave and he was even thinking about “returning” him to his “owner”. He also knew that Jim was a slave and when Tom said he was going to help free JIm, Huck felt bad because he thought me mad Tom a sinner as