ly transported Huck and Jim but also helped to carry all of the supplies accumulated on this journey. Huck and Jim grew an attachment to the lonesome river, but on the raft is where they began to grow an attachment for each other. Huck just a boy trying to survive from all the hardship his father brought on him developed an affection for and responsibility to Jim. Huck has never seen nor experienced a tender, caring father-and on the raft is when Huck first began to experience this. On the raft Jim began to guide Huck like no other and Huck began to mature. Huck was more responsive towards Jim then any other adult because Jim didn’t try to civilize him like the Widow or take advantage of him like Pap has done.Furthermore, as Huck was maturing and learning from Jim on the raft, and Jim not being very intelligent with politics and stuff of that nature began to learn from Huck as well. Both Huck and Jim were learning from each other, one example would be the debate they had in the fourteenth chapter about King Solomon and the French language. The wigwam on the raft kept Jim from being caught and returned back to slavery. This would be one of the reason’s why they traveled for so long and far and were able to deceive other’s passing on the river. In conclusion I think the river journey symbolizes a metaphorical descent into the underworld, where Huck learns about himself and his relationship to Jim, and emerges change. On the river is when Huck is most fully alive and begins to mature. On the raft Huck begins to understand what the meaning of love is, and how it feels to care for another person even though he is a of a different race/color. ...
