Does Jim trust Huck?

[mjha...@crimson.ua.edu]

Matt Harris
8/25/09


Jim Trusts Huck


I think Jim trusts Huck more then anybody in his own family.
Throughout these chapters Huck and Jim are the only normal people,
considering they are hanging out with a “duke and king.” They have
been through more hard labor together then anybody in the book,
because they are always at service for king and duke, and are always
working the raft. Also, the reader should know that Jim really does
trust Huck because on page 211, Jim does not wake up Huck to work his
shift on guard. Then later the next morning Huck wakes up to find Jim
talking in his sleep and Huck immediately knew it was about his
family. Huck then proceeded to wake up Jim and he asked him what was
wrong, and Jim broke down into tears and told Huck how much he missed
his family. Also, there is another part in the book where Jim does
not believe there two leaders are truly a duke and a king, therefore
he decided to give a list of analogies of good dukes and kings and
they were nothing alike there leaders. In the case Jim decided to
talk to Huck once again. Although, Huckleberry knew that they were
not really a Duke nor a king he chose to make sure the Jim had a
positive attitude and basically told him they where. Therefore, since
Jim and Huck agreed to be servants they were able to establish a
common bond and could always count on one another.