One thing that’s interesting about Huck and Jim’s relationship is that while Jim can freely give his love and express great gratitude to Huck for helping him, Huck wrestles consistently with his relationship with Jim because of social standards around him. The scene where Huck almost betrays Jim to the boatmen illustrates this struggle: After feeling like he can finally turn him in and thinking it will actually bring him peace to do so, Huck cannot bring himself to do it. He lies, saying his family is on the raft sick with small pox. There is something in Huck, which really is unexplainable, that ties him to Jim. Everything and pretty much everyone else around him would say he is in the wrong for helping a slave, but he has a sense of justice that he sticks with even when he thinks it will damn him to hell. That is loyalty if I’ve ever seen it, and it’s awfully mature.
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