Illegal Friendship Huck's feelings about Jim have been rearranged throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For several reasons, Twain changed Huck's views of Jim and slavery in order to progress the relationship of Huck and Jim in the book. At first, Huck considers Jim a N*****, but after much hijinks Huck could barely use the word to describe Jim. Huck's transformation from an innocent boy to an acknowledging adolescent is anything but transparent in this book. At the beginning of the book, Huck is untouched by other ideals because he has lived in the south and has learned that slaves, such as Jim, aren't people.
And what else would help with that but some well placed, well used rhetorical strategies? Banneker starts off with an allusion, his first rhetorical strategy. He reminds Thomas Jefferson of the recent Revolutionary War, and how Britain basically held America as it's slave. Jefferson didn't know what truly being free felt like, so they fought for freedom. And this is the reason this allusion works.
Both federalists believed the new Constitution would help with providing protection, the general welfare of the people and enforcing the laws. (Doc 1 & 3) Two men, Patrick Henry and Amos Singletree, were both antifederalist and opposed the Constitution. Patrick opposed the Constitution because he believed the states would lose power. He thought it was too late to try to fix something that separated America from Great Britain. Amos Singletree believed the men who drafted the constitution are using it as an excuse to gain more power and money for themselves.
The narrator communicates to the reader how he thinks he is sane by justifying his actions. But don’t all insane or crazy people try to justify their reactions to a particular situation. Even though he wants too and eventually does kill the old man because of his crazy eye, he wants the reader to
As a southern white boy, Huck has an obligation to turn Jim back in; when he does not he is essentially turning his back on society.”’People would call me a low down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum - but that don’t make no difference. I ain’t a-going to tell . . .’” (50). Huck is aware that by not turning Jim in he is not only putting himself at risk for ridicule from his peers but, also breaking the law.
Huck was a last minute addition to this plan. He did the right thing by running away at night. The foil is shown because if he was still like Tom he would have stayed with them. The foil between Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is important because it helps to teach Huck good morals. Perhaps without these morals Huck would have continued down the same road as Tom.
Huck and Jim view it as also being a route for them to take to run away from their problems and to find solace in being free from those issues. Huck himself sees the river as a way to avoid becoming “sivilized” and to hide from his abusive father that harassed him for most of his life. Jim, much like Huck,uses the river as an escape route, but for him, its an escape route from racism. Jim wants freedom from the bigoted society that had torn him away from his family. “Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom”(97).
In comparison to a court decision one cannot use personal feeling towards the final decision in a case, but Huck felt otherwise. Huck is being disciplined for his beliefs and he does not want to be part of a lifestyle that does not support his ways. For example, his choice not to turn in Jim because he knows of what he did shows that Huck understands why Jim is escaping and feels for him rather than just to do the right thing according to society. Huck sees Jim as a friend, a companion whom he finds close not as a slave. With that said he truly is able to see that society's way of treating Jim is completely wrong.
Later, Douglass does get to use his acquired literacy to write his own pass with the “protections” that he drafts, which act as a sort of forged contract, permitting him to go north, where he could live in freedom (page 51). Despite the protections’ failure, Douglass’s literacy eventually allowed him to be an effective, eloquent abolitionist following his escape. Douglass also took it upon himself to ensure fair treatment by his masters. He refused to be mistreated by his social superiors, especially evidenced by his fight with Mr. Covey.
Martin Luther King once stated in his book, “Stride Toward Freedom”, “Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people”. In his mind he was certain we wouldn’t get anywhere with violence. “The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this taxation without representation” (Digital History, Malcolm X). In this quote Malcolm X expresses how he was aware of why the American Revolution was fought.