Huck Finn Friendship Analysis

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When Huck travels along the river, he did not expect to see Jim at Jackson Island, and he did not expect himself to help Jim out because he was a slave. But because townspeople viewed him in a low standard, he did not care. He viewed himself as a “low down ornery”, so breaking rules or laws didn’t really matter. In the beginning he wanted adventure, so he wanted to be close with Jim. During the Adventure, Huck learns that Jim really cares about himself and they start to become good friends. When the fog comes in, his mind gets fogged up with his real conscience, and he faces the dilemma of if he should really free Jim. Even though, Huck didn’t care about the social criterion, he still noticed that it was something wrong to do because if somebody …show more content…

When he tells him self, “ “all right then, I’ll go to hell” – and tore it up” (162). He gives “friendship” the most value than anything else in the world and he is emphasizing the fact that nothing else matters than the presence of him being alive with Jim in the adventure. He also gave up his path of his afterlife to save Jim and that would be the crucial evidence that Huck is brave. He has nothing to lose when he helps Jim out and he truly breaks the social …show more content…

He did not have any possession of wealth and something that he really cared about. Huck was a very free soul who likes to adventure through woods, and he really didn’t care of his appearance. He had ragged apparel on and he somewhat was depicted as homeless teenager where he did not have possession of wealth. He did not care about wealth and that is evident in the text. When he was being threatened by Pap for money, he sold the money to the judge for very little amount, which was astonishment. This showed that he had no interest in money, and he used the wealth factor to save his life from Pap. Because he had no possession of wealth and that he really cared about, it gave Huck the power to be brave and make life-risking decisions by

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