Huck Finn 2/17/10

Huck feels bad about helping Jim to escape from Miss Watson. He feels bad because it was almost as if he was stealing from Miss Watson. Huck seems to develop a good relationship with Jim and doesn't feel so bad about helping him to escape. Jim was trying to escape slavery because Miss Watson was going to sell him down south. I believe that if he wasn't going to be sold down South he may have not escaped. Huck felt bad for helping him escape but he really is helping because the conditions and life of a Southern Slave are extremely cruel, harsh, and awful. Huck also feels bad about putting Jim through worry and then lieing to him. The two of them were separated in the fog and Huck couldn't see anything, nor could Jim. Well, Huck finally makes his way back and plays it off like Jim had been drunk or dreaming and that Huck had been there the entire time. Jim was extremely worried about Huck and said that it "'most broke" his heart. AFter lieing to Jim and putting him through that, he felt guilty and awful about it and changed his mind and had him admit what he had done to Jim. Huck says that if he knew that what he had done would make Jim feel so bad then he would not have done it. The change of heart at the end of the chapter displays who Huck is as a person. His change of heart shows that he is a caring person for he does feel bad about what he is doing. However, he cares about Jim and really is protecting him by helping him run away, which is why I believe he has the change of heart.