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Huck teams up with Jim, a slave who runs away to avoid being sold South.

Huck teams up with Jim, a slave who runs away to avoid being sold South.

The two head down river on a raft and have several adventures. Perhaps the most poignant is the storm scene in which Huck changes his view of Jim as "just a slave" to "a human being".

The two head down river on a raft and have several adventures. Perhaps the most poignant is the storm scene in which Huck changes his view of Jim as "just a slave" to "a human being."  

* Over the course of their adventure, Huck learns that Jim is a human being and not property. This realization leads Huck to choose to assist Jim in his escape from captivity, and risk eternal damnation according to his religious beliefs. Huck’s decision is driven by the friendship that develops between him and his fellow fugitive on their adventure. Jim’s kindness and stewardship also provide a stark contrast to the treachery of the characters on the banks of the river. Twain thus crafts a message that slavery and race discrimination are wrong without taking the tone of an abolitionist, combining an amusing children’s story with a profound social message.<ref name=thesis>[https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/1805/1729/L699_Thesis_November.pdf?sequence=1 Master's Thesis]</ref>

* Over the course of their adventure, Huck learns that Jim is a human being and not property. This realization leads Huck to choose to assist Jim in his escape from captivity, and risk eternal damnation according to his religious beliefs. Huck’s decision is driven by the friendship that develops between him and his fellow fugitive on their adventure. Jim’s kindness and stewardship also provide a stark contrast to the treachery of the characters on the banks of the river. Twain thus crafts a message that slavery and race discrimination are wrong without taking the tone of an abolitionist, combining an amusing children’s story with a profound social message.<ref name=thesis>[https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/1805/1729/L699_Thesis_November.pdf?sequence=1 Master's Thesis]</ref>

==Plot==

==Plot==

''Huckleberry Finn'' is a story about the friendship between two outcasts, one a 13-year-old streetwise (white) [[urchin]], the other a mature (black) [[runaway slave]]. While Jim is running away from the prospect of losing his cushy house-servant position for the drudgery of a deep south plantation, Huck is also running away from a slavelike existence as prisoner of his own drunken father. Both are relieved upon their meeting on Jackson Island, with Jim just as happy to find that Huck is not a ghost as Huck is to find that Jim is not someone who will return him to Pap. Each then takes a considerable risk in trusting the other, with Jim confessing his secret plan to run away (he'd be punished terribly if other whites found this out) and Huck choosing to aid a runaway slave (risk at least being called an "[[abolitionist]]" but also exposing himself to other, more severe penalties).

''Huckleberry Finn'' is a story about the friendship between two outcasts, one a 13-year-old streetwise (white) urchin, the other a mature (black) runaway slave. While Jim is running away from the prospect of losing his cushy house-servant position for the drudgery of a deep south plantation, Huck is also running away from a slave-like existence as prisoner of his own drunken father. Both are relieved upon their meeting on Jackson Island, with Jim just as happy to find that Huck is not a ghost as Huck is to find that Jim is not someone who will return him to Pap. Each then takes a considerable risk in trusting the other, with Jim confessing his secret plan to run away (he'd be punished terribly if other whites found this out) and Huck choosing to aid a runaway slave (risk at least being called an "[[abolitionist]]" but also exposing himself to other, more severe penalties).

==An anti-slavery work==

==An anti-slavery work==

Poet [[T.S. Eliot]] called the story, "a far more convincing indictment of [[slavery]] than the sensationalist propaganda of [[Uncle Tom's Cabin]].<ref name=thesis />

Poet [[T.S. Eliot]] called the story, "a far more convincing indictment of [[slavery]] than the sensationalist propaganda of [[Uncle Tom's Cabin]].<ref name=thesis />

==Notes==

==Notes==