in or try to save him. Huck sits and thinks about all their experiences together and he just cant turn Jim in. Huck’s character shows how much he has changed through these experiences with Jim that Huck is risking heaven to save Jim. This quote is taken from when Huck is thinking about trying to save Jim, “I would take up wickedness again… I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that, too; because as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the whole hog” (Twain, pg 214). Huck still sees his actions of helping and trying to save him as a wrongful act and that just shows how his society’s influences Huck as a person. Although Huck has been raised to know that what he is doing is wrong, he still cant forget about all the experiences that he and Jim had and how Jim was always there for him. After Huck frees Jim with Tom’s help, Tom gets shot in the leg and Jim is such a caring person that he goes to call a doctor to help Tom. In this quote, Jim describes to Huck what he just did, “Well, den, dis is de way it look to me, Huck. Ef it wuz him dat ‘uz bein’ sot free, en one er de boys wuz to git shot, would he say, ‘Go on en save me, nemmine ‘bout a doctor f’r to save dis one’? Is dat like Mars Tom Sawyer? Would he say dat? You bet he wouldn’t! Well, den, is Jim gwyne to say it? No, sah—I doan’ budge a step out’n dis place ‘dout a doctor; not if it’s forty year!” (Twain, pg 276). After Jim made that quote, Huck’s reaction was ‘I knowed he was white inside, and I reackoned he’d say what he did say,” also, society has corrupted Huck so bad that he has to rationalize thinking good about Jim as he must be white inside. This shows how in his mind, white is good and black is bad, but since Jim is black and he is doing somethi...
