Friendship In Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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“You’ve got a friend in me. You got troubles and I’ve got em’ too. There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you. We stick together we can see it through. You’ve got a friend in me.” The 1995 iconic Disney movie, Toy Story, displays a motivating story about two toys that start out enemies but evolve to becoming friends. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a dynamic novel, by Mark Twain, that displays a developing friendship of the two main characters, Huck and Jim, similar to Buzzlightyear and Woody in Toy Story, in order to criticize society in this pre-civil war era. As Huck and Jim begin on their journey, they reach troubles but stick together through it all. Through their adventures, Twain demonstrates how a broken relationship between a …show more content…

Twain is using the end of the novel as a way to completely reject all societal beliefs on slavery. The audience now knows that Jim and Huck are developing a friendship, against society, but now the audience sees Huck and Jim becoming a family. As the novel comes to a close Twain integrates another major plot twist, the King has sold Jim. When Huck realizes that Jim has been sold he immediately reacts in mourning. Huck angrily utters, “ “ Sold him?” I said and begun to cry”(Twain 163). Here Twain is using Huck’s physical emotions in order to show the audience how much he truly cares about Jim. By showing his physical emotions In the moment, the audience realizes how much Huck is truly developing true, genuine feelings for Jim, against societies wishes. In this moment, Twain is making a strong claim against society. Through Huck, Twain is criticizing society. Huck is now throwing everything he has ever been taught about society out the window in order to help a friend, even though Jim is a black slave. Twain is criticizing that even though you have been taught by society one thing that does not always mean that it is the right thing. Twain is using Huck in this moment to illustrate that society’s racial beliefs are wrong and that they need to be changed. Twain not only develops Jim and Huck’s relationship into a friendship, but he develops a family relationship between the two, one that can never be replaced. One can argue that in this moment, Twain is presenting a racist message when Huck is referring to Jim as his “n*****” in the next line, but ultimately Huck’s emotions over rule showing how much he truly cares about Jim. Twain is using this moment to reject all of societal beliefs on what the

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