Jim and Huck

Huck and Jim, at least according to conventional standards at the time, should have been complete opposites. Jim the strong ignorant black man who was a slave and had a slave family, and Huck the poor white boy who was being given all the opportunities that befitted a young prosperous young man of his time, by the Widow Douglas. However, these two struck a very uncanny bond together and connected in a way that was previously unseen in a white male slave relationship. They carried each other through on their journey and it is safe to say that neither would have succeeded in their goals had not the other one been there. Huck was Jim's face in public, and Jim was Huck's strength and shelter on the raft and their feelings towards one another can be found in every separation scene. When they get separated the first time on the river, Huck frantically searches for Jim even through the dense fog. Jim had multiple chances to run away and be free from the company of this white boy for good, and yet he always stayed and searched for Huck even in places he was not welcome. Jim allowed himself to be ridiculed by the con-men when he had the opportunity to leave at any moment. They had not earned Jim's trust, but Huck had and Jim considered the word of his one true friend the most valuable so he never questioned the other men on Huck's trust. Also this relationship is a deep insight to the way people should have been treated during this time. And the love these two had for each other and the rareness of the amazing morals that Huck possessed culminates when Huck decides to help Jim no matter what the cost to his own soul.