Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an adventure novel that tries to understand challenges in America. Published in 1885, the novel recounts pre-civil war sectionalism between free and slave states. The book is a coming of age story not only for Huck, but also for a nation that struggles to understand the true definition of freedom. Mark Twain challenges readers to examine what civilization, freedom, and inhumanity truly stands for. The story is supposed to have a constant bond between Huck and Jim; while also depicting Huck as a dynamic character because his moral views evolve. However, the final chapters of the book are rushed. At the end of the novel, Huck remains a static character and his actions cause the story to be unconvincing.…show more content… Huck knows that helping Jim escape to freedom is against his and societies principles; however, Huck chooses to help Jim despite what others may think. “People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum— but that don’t make no difference. I ain’t a-going to tell” (Twain 50). When Huck and Jim are on the raft, Huck’s perception is altered; Subsequently, Huck sees Jim as a person not property. We see Huck begin to evolve when he does not regret forming alliance with Jim. “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterward, neither” (Twain 89). On the raft, Huck and Jim’s relationship is often seen as son and father. When Jim sees the dead man in the house on the river, Jim shelters Huck by keeping the fact that his father was the dead man in the house. Jim fathers Huck by having a relationship that takes care of one another. Jim’s conscience teaches Huck to be a good person. When Jim tells Huck the story about his daughter’s deafness, Huck finally sees that Jim is not just a slave, but a human that loves just as much as a white
