Huck And Jim's Friendship

Huck and Jim form a strong friendship and mutual respect for each other created from their joint experiences absconding from different forms of imprisonment and resulting from the innumerable adventures they encounter along their journeys down the Mississippi River. Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the story of Huck’s personal growth and maturation as he escapes from the oppressing environment of the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, and soon after he is forced to care of himself while assisting an escaped slave, Jim, elude capture from the constabularies. Huck is characteristically ingenuous in his comprehension of his life in the novel’s beginning. Restrictive as his environment may be, he is too young

As they seek out the town of Cairo, they begin to conjecture that their difficulties finding the town are a consequence of Huck’s prank. This is show when Huck says, “I wish I’d never seen that snake-skin, Jim—I do wish I’d never laid eyes on it.” (INSERT HERE) In this quote, we can see how Huck is slowly but surely developing a conscience and developing a stupendous sense of responsibility to accept his actions and apologize to those he has hurt or offended. In other terms, his concept of consequences is emerging and he is also beginning to understand how the wrong decisions can cause reparations on either end. This exact process of maturation continues throughout the novel, as when Huck, feeling guilty about his role in the criminal schemes of the Duke and King, who are colluding to rob the Wilks girls of their inheritance. This is shown when Huck says, “I says to myself, this is another one that I’m letting him rob her of her money. And when she got through they all jest laid theirselves out to make me feel at home and know I was amongst friends. I felt so ornery and low down and mean that I says to myself, my mind’s made up; I’ll hive that money for them or bust.” (INSERT HERE) This display of an emerging moral compass is one of the novel’s most important examples of Huck’s personal growth and