"Building Friendship"
...Telling Huck that his father was dead could also mean that Huck might want to go back home and Jim wouldn’t get his freedom. Huck will eventually start to appreciate all that Jim does for him over the course of the novel. It doesn’t take long into their adventure down the Mississippi before Huck starts to begin to care about Jim. When Huck plays a prank on Jim with a rattle snake, he says “Jim was laid up for four days and nights. Then the swelling was all gone and he was around again. I made up my mind I wouldn’t ever take a holt of a snake skin again with my hands, now that I see what had come of it.”(Twain, 53). This shows that Huck is starting to regret all of the mean tricks he plays on Jim. This doesn’t stop him from doing other tricks though because he still isn’t aware that he is starting to have a friendship with Jim. He still views Jim as piece of property that is running away. Later in the novel, Huck plays a prank on Jim in the fog. Huck and Jim get separated in the fog. Once that for begins to clear Huck finds Jim. Huck tells Jim that he had been with Jim all along, claiming “Gone away? Why, what in the nation do you mean? I hain’t been gone anywheres. Where would I go to?”(84). Huck later feels bad for what he has done to Jim, saying “It was fifteen minutes before I could work my self up go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it and I warn’t ever sorry afterward neither. I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d ‘a’ knowed it would make him feel that way.”(86). This shows that Huck feels bad for what he did to Jim, but he won’t let himself feel sorry for doing it. This does make him realize he needs to stop playing tricks on Jim. By the end of the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim now have a very close friendship. This can be seen when Huck rights a letter to Miss Watson telling her where Jim is so she can come and get him. After Huck finishes writing the letter and is looking over it, he realizes he feels guilty. He tears the letter up and says “All right, th...