Between Huck and Jim, the special relationship is created to survive from the interference from the outside. Treating each other respectively and equally, Huck and Jim make the Jackson's Island a perfect, safe paradise with plenty of food. Making two characters who have different race meet in the secluded island, the author starts to make a comment on the racism. Twain tells that a perfect harmony for both black and white can be resulted when everybody is equal.
In the episode with the rattlesnake, Huck plays a foolish trick on Jim, as he always has been doing, and Jim gets hurt. However, Jim protects Huck from seeing the Pap's corpse in the floating house and treats Huck like his son. In contrast to Pap who kidnaps Huck and treats him like a slave, Jim becomes a "real" father to Huck even though they have different skin color. Moreover, when Huck yells to Jim that "we" are in danger, even though the whites are after Jim only, Twain apparently expresses a special bond between them. .
During the journey, Huck, following Tom's way of seeking for the adventures, causes many troubles. Lacking responsibility, Huck ignores Jim's objection and goes onto the wreck. Huck's childishness is getting both of them into the unnecessary trouble that could have killed them. Also Huck, who still hasn't overcome the influence from the society, tells that Jim's smart for a "black" person. In his mind, he thinks his race is better than Jim's so he can "judge" and "concludes" Jim. Huck tries to trick Jim again after they got separated in the fog for a while. But immediately after Jim realizes that Huck's fooling him, Huck feels so sorry for Jim, who's thrilled to see Huck alive. He says, "It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger." Eventually, he regrets it and decides not to trick Jim again. .
At this point, the second challenge occurs when Huck meets two white men searching for the runaway slaves.
