about his life and family as does any white person. The first correlation between Huck and Jim is that they are both afraid of something that leads them to run away. For Huck this is his father, and for Jim it is slavery. Huck knows that he himself is human because he rarely does anything bad and when he does, like put the rattlesnake at Jim’s feet, he feels remorse for his actions and he also feels sympathy and hurt. His sympathetic and hurtful side is shown when Buck dies later in the novel Huck cries because of how good Buck was to him before he died. Huck and Jim are both alike in that they are both superstitious. This is shown even before they run away when Huck goes to Jim in order for Jim to read his future through the hairball. The first real sign of human relationship on the raft trip is when Huck and Jim stay up all night talking, about moral issues in particular. During this time Huck tries to out reason Jim several times. Then there comes a fight in their friendship. When they are on the raft and they get stuck in fog and Jim falls asleep. When he is awakened Huck pretends they never got separated and that it was a dream on Jim’s part. When Jim finally realizes it is not a dream but in fact what really happened he gets very mad at Huck and calls him trash leading Huck to apologize. By Huck apologizing for this incident you see that Huck is beginning to look at Jim as a person because he would not apologize to just a piece of property, for property has no feelings and you would need not apologize to something that has no feelings. Huck also notes that Jim must be human to a level when he talks about his family. While Huck doesn’t think it is right Jim wants to free his family because they are someone else’s property, he still notices that Jim has a family and wants to be with them. The king and the duke are the people who push Jim to act more human than Huck thinks he is. This is becau...
