themselves feel better. When Tom and Jim were returned by the doctor to the Phelps’s house, the Phelps’s friends were very anger at Jim for causing such problems and “wanted to hang Jim for an example to all the other niggers around there (255).” The friends even “cussed Jim considerable and give him a cuff or two side the head once in awhile” and tormented him to their pleasure (255). It was only after the doctor told the friends “Don’t be no rougher on him than you’re obleeged to, because he ain’t a bad nigger,” that the friends decided to stop harassing Jim (255). Huck was so ignorant to the possibility that all men are equal no matter what color skin one has that he thought several times about turning Jim in. It made Huck “all over trembly and feverish” to think that he was helping a slave escape to freedom (78). Huck felt that he was to blame for Jim’s escaping even though Jim had run away on his own. Huck’s conscience ate at him and said, “But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could ‘a’ paddled ashore and told somebody (79). His conscience further harassed him, telling himself that Miss Watson did not deserve anything to lose her slave, the only thing she did was try to teach Huck manners and to be good. This disturbed Huck so he began to think about turning Jim in, but could not bring himself to do it. He tried to tell a man about Jim when he paddled ashore in the canoe, but could not. Huck reconciled with himself by saying that either way, whether he turned Jim in or not, he would have felt bad, so he dismissed the thought from his mind. Later, Huck again comes across the idea to turn Jim in. The Royal Nonesuch had sold Jim and Huck had no idea on how to get him back. After a lot of thought and torment Huck decides to pray to God, telling him he would do the right thing, but Huck realized th...
