Examples Of Splash In Huckleberry Finn

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Splash, Splash is the sound you hear as a beautiful friendship begins to blossom. The main characters Huck and Jim’s friendship begins to develop as they are floating down the Mississippi river in hopes of reaching both of their goals, freedom from society and its judgemental, cruel,biased, and racist opinions and ways. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the author Mark Twain presents many examples of how they both grow as characters by teaching one another about the true meaning of friendship, loyalty, and equality.
Huck and Jim both teach each other what it is like to have a true friends. In chapter sixteen Huck begins to feel guilty about helping Jim escape from Miss Watson but he begins to cry out to Huck saying, “We’s safe, …show more content…

This is an important trait that is displayed throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because society believes that african americans should be enslaved and should not hold the same rights as the white men. In chapter fifteen we see that at first Huck does not want to apologize to Jim for making him believe that everything that had happened was just a dream but he later apologizes to Jim for tricking him because he feels guilty for taking advantage of Jim’s lack of knowledge. Huck says, “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but i done it, and i warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither i didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and i wouldn’t have done that one if I’d ‘a’ knowed it would make him feel that way” (Twain 97). Another example that is provided in the novel is in chapter twenty three when Huck realizes that Jim also has feelings when he says, “De Lord God Almighty fogive po’ole Jim, kaze he never gwyne to forgive hisself as long’s he live! Oh, she plumb deef en dumb, huck, plumb deef en dumb en- I’d ben a-treat’n her so!” (Twain 166). This moment helps Huck to better understand that although Jim may look different and may be treated differently by society he still has feelings just like any other

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