Hucks Change

In chapter 16 Huck is feeling bad because he helped a slave escape from his rightful owner Ms. Watson. He feels worse and worse as Jim talks the free states and what he is going to do when he gets there. He talks about his plan to earn money to buy his wife and children back. And how they are gonna live free. If he can’t get this family on his own he will get the abolitionists to do it. Huck feels like he has done wrong and contemplates turning Jim but his heart would not let him. He would go to tell on Jim and he’d just make up some lie to protect him. He tells the boat men that the people on the bout are his family member and they have small pox. The men decide not to search the raft and give Huck forty dollars in gold. They send him on down the river.

In chapter 31 Jim is sold and Huck thinks about telling Ms Watson where Jim is so she can get him back and Jim could be home, but Huck soon realizes that Ms Watson would just sell him. Huck writes a letter that says “Miss Watson your runaway slave Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.” He thinks “It was awful thoughts, and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming. I shoved the whole thing out of my head; and said I would take up wickedness again, which was in my line, being brung up to it, and the other warn't. And for a starter, I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that, too; because as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the whole hog.” This is the line where I see the biggest change in Huck. It shows me that he really cares for Jim and he does not care about society’s lame rules. Jim feels just like he does and Jim loves just like any white person does. At  this point in the story Huck just realizes the unfairness of Jims treatment and realizes a man should be allowed to  roam free.