Huck Finn Blog Post II

Huck and Jim's relationship is quite possibly unique in literature.  Jim and Huck obviously care for each other and have bonded over the time they have spent sharing stories and avoiding getting caught as they spend more time together their relationship becomes more prominent.  Huck and Jim will go to certain extents as they try and protect the other.  As can only be expected of two boys alone on a raft, they begin to tell stories to one another, Huck "read  considerable to Jim about kings and dukes, and earls and such (Twain 113) , entrancing Jim with these far away tales.  Jim and Huck open up to each other for they are, for the moment, all each other has.  What begins with stories slowly develops as the story goes on, with each protecting the other on occasion though they don't always realize this, especially Huck. Their relationship is not as one might call picture perfect though, for Huck is still a white boy growing up in the south and still has a racist mentality.  Huck does think highly of Jim but Jim will forever only be 'smart for a black man' even though they are friends. You see this when Huck says things such as "I see it warn’t no use wasting words — you can’t learn a nigger to argue. So I quit. (Twain 113) .  Here we see how Hucks perception of Jim is coloured through his racsist veiws. While he still veiws him as a friend he is still, and will always be a black man to Huck.  This fact is an invisable barrier between the two, for as close as they get that distinction will always be there between the boys.  Huck and Jim are indeed close but they are still subject to traditional southern views and values.