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FRIENDSHIP
The theme of friendship is shown in 'Hucklebetty Finn' between Huck and Jim. At first, when Huck finds out Jim has runaway from Miss Watson, he plans on turning him in somewhere down the Mississippi. But Huck decides against it because he doesn't want to get caught alive when he is supposed to be dead. But, as the raft trip commences, Huck and Jim spend more time together on the journey to Cairo, and learn more about each other. When Huck tricks Jim in the fog, Jim scolds him and you see a change in Huck as he feels bad for being the cause of distress. You also see Huck change his mind about slavery, and by the end of the book he is willing to help Jim out of any danger. When Jim is caught by the Phelp's, Huck doesn't even think twice about rescuing him, but comes up with a plan to help him escape. Huck and Jim create a brotherly bond that Huck learns from and which helps him in the process of becoming a man.
'But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I'd see him standing my watch on top of his'n, 'stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and
'Dah you goes, de ole true Huck; de on'y white genlman dat ever kep' his promise to ole Jim' (pg. 89)
would always call me honey, and pet me, and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had smallpox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he's got now; and then I
happened to look around and see that paper. . . 'All right, then, I'll go to hell' - and tore it up.' (pg. 214)
Huck Finn
Jim
On the Raft
Hidin' in the Cave
Playin' Dress Up
Sleepin' under a Tree
Makin' Some Music
