im. Jim was a slave of the Widow’s, but after word of Huck’s death got around, he overheard her making plans to sell him. Hearing this, he fled to the same island as Huck. Huck’s rejection of societal approval is exemplified here. He talks to Jim as a fellow human; as an equal. He never talks down to him or disrespects him. With Jim, his innocence is also shown. At one point, they find a dead body on an island. Huck looks away and feels sick and scared. Despite his child-like fantasies of being a pirate, the thought of the death of a fellow human being disturbs him. The pair of Huck and Jim plan to travel to Louisiana, a free state, to free Jim. The river is an archetype for the path of life. It specifically represents Huck’s moral values applied to his travels, and he and Jim are the sole travelers on the River. Here again he is separate from society. During his travels, Huck’s “good and bad” system of morals develops, showing Huck’s maturity and sense as a young man. Jim and Huck are sidetracked on their journey, meeting a pair of cons they refer to as the King and the Duke. They reluctantly end up in a plot of the King and Duke to swindle an inheritance out of a southern family. Huck sees this as bad, and develops a plan to expose the King and the Duke, which ends up working due to the appearance of the real heirs to the inheritance and the ensuing exhuming of the body of the deceased, implicating the King and the Duke as frauds. During this time, Huck does a lot of praying, despite his rejection of Miss Watson’s teachings. He prays for the daughters of the dead man, because they accept the King and the Duke as their family and treat them as long lost uncles. He also says that he hopes the Widow and Miss Watson are praying for him. He does not pray for himself because he believes he is going to hell anyway. During the formulation of Huck’s plan, Jim is sold to another family...
