aid, “We blowed a cylinder-head.” “Good gracious anybody hurt?” “No’m killed a nigger.” “Well it’s lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt” (Twain 199). Whether or not Huck was trying to be racist is irrelevant, the fact is his home life taught him racism as a way of life. Huck's innocence severely handicapped his racism. Throughout the book Jim was just about Huck’s only friend, yet Jim was black. Jim looks out for Huck like a father would. On several occasions Huck comes close to turning Jim in. Huck keeps thinking he is doing something morally wrong by helping Jim to escape. He never questions whether slavery is morally right or wrong. He just figures it to be a way of life. Huck never actually got to the conclusion that maybe he was doing the right thing by trying to free Jim, and that slavery might actually be wrong. I think that Mark Twain may be using Huck as an example of the human race as a whole. Sometimes we over look the real problems in life, because we are always so tied up in a bunch of trivial corals. However, despite Huck’s constant racist personality, some changes did occur in Huck’s feelings about Jim during the course of the book. Until the end of the book, Huck never worried about Jim’s whereabouts. Jim on the other hand was always terribly nervous about Huck's whereabouts. During the time Huck spent with the Grangerfords, he totally forgot about Jim for at least two weeks. Jim was very worried about Huck's well being during this time. Another time Huck left Jim for a period of time, was when he went with the king and the duke to play as Peter Wilke’s brothers. This time as before, Huck forgot about Jim. By the end of the book, Huck had begun to change. While Huck was hanging out with the duke and the king, Jim ended up getting sold to a family called the Phelps. Huck became nervous, and decided to go find out what had hap...
