se they push Jim to a point when he really starts to suffer. When Huck sees Jim suffering because of the duke and the king he realizes that Jim really is human. Jim says ‘Dese is all I kin stan’” showing that he can’t take the king anymore. He doesn’t think the duke is as bad as the king is. And the king and the duke are the two people who bring the raft trip to an end. After they sold Jim Huck thinks it would have been better for him to have returned him to Miss Watson in the beginning where he knew Jim would be treated better than at some other plantations. Huck knows that society would look down upon him for helping Jim to escape and while Huck realizes Jim is a human it does not change his view of blacks in general. When he tells Aunt Sally that nobody is hurt saying. “No’m. Killed a nigger”. This shows that while Huck has realized that Jim is not property, but human that it does no apply to all blacks, just to Jim. You understand that Huck sees Jim as a person especially since he’ll “go to hell” before he will betray Jim and turn him in. Huck is very surprised that Tom Sawyer is going to help free Jim, when in reality Tom already knew Jim was freed and was doing this stuff to a freed slave, while Jim gives up his freedom in order to help Tom when he gets shot in the leg. By this time Huck already knows of Jim’s humanness and that is why he tries to help him out of the Phelp’s plantation. Huck overcomes society’s evilness towards blacks in one situation. Although he lives in a society who hates blacks he doesn’t necessarily do the wrong thing because of what society says. While Jim got his freedom in the end because of Miss Watson freeing him Huck still tried to help him overcome the society’s oppression against Jim.In all three of these instances Billy Budd, Frederick Douglass, and Huck Finn all try to overcome oppression of...
