Huck is your average teenager with a mind for trouble, exploration, and humor. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn may be viewed as one of the most controversial novels of today. As an adventurous sole tending to seek out potentially dangerous situations as well as try and alter people's trains of thoughts or self-images, Huck displays several instances throughout the novel show this type of treatment as well as conflicts between society, slavery, and opinion relating to racism and civilization. Furthermore, Huck is not sure of whether or not to let his inner-self influence his ongoing pursuit to free a runaway slave. Therefore, one outlet of this anxiety is to continue his dirty tricks and instinctual behavior on others, regarding Jim in most situations, for Huck to rid him of the guilt and stress of the major decision. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn show interesting views on expressing inner feelings as well as character development through various occurring predicaments. .
Jim has always been ridiculed by Huck and Tom. One instance occurs when the boys run through the night and make sounds to scare Jim, who was asleep under a tree, and mislead him. Jim awakes to realize the boys have come back to confuse him once again originally stating, " the witches bewitches him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the state, and then set him under the trees again, and hung his hat on a limb to show who done it" (Twain 8). Later in chapter 15, Huck is on a journey into the "free states" away from the corruption of modern society along with Jim when they become separated from each other one night to become lost deep in a thick fog. Huck awakes to find the raft with Jim to re-board it and convince Jim that it was all in his mind, a dream. " I reck"n I did dream it, Huck; but dog my cats ef it ain't de powerfullest dream I ever see" (Twain 118). Jim never accepts Huck's view and is astounded to what he is being told.
It was in Hannibal that Clemens would make and live some of the extraordinary stories that would shape his two most popular novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). ... It was the following observation of the realization about the wrongs of slavery that stayed with Clemens while wring such stories as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. ...