The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain is about a young boy trying to find a place in society where he is welcome and where he fits in. The main character Huck, goes through many changes in the story. The major change that Huck experiences is finding that life is not always fair. In the story, Huck helps a slave Jim run away. Huck, in the beginning is not friends with Jim. He keeps on thinking that he should do the right thing and turn Huck in. Yet, as the story progresses, Huck finds a friendship that is unbreakable. Later on in the story Jim gets sold into slavery. Huck tries to free Jim and does not want to lose the friendship that he has with Jim. It is amazing to me that some people are so blind to see that it does not matter what the color of your skin is as long as you are liked for what's inside. But, through the eyes of a child the stereotypes and diversities are put aside and they are about to see someone for who they really are.

Huck Finn is an outcast in society. He grew up with little or no education and a drunk for a father. He has no manners and is seen as an unruly, bad child. Jim is a slave. He is also and out cast in society. Someone is in control of his life and he also has little or no education. Together these two characters find that they lead similar lives in the novel. Although they come form totally different classes and different races they seem to be able to relate to one another. As the story progresses they find unfairness in life. They realize that both of them have no where to go and they are both lost in the social aspect of life. Huck an uneducated, child is searching to find a place to feel welcome, wanted and loved. Jim is searching for freedom and a place to feel welcome. Together these two find that sometimes things they want cannot always come true. Sometimes life is not what you want, but instead what you least expect. Together, they compromise with life and help each other survive.

A great example of Huck helping Jim survive, is when the Jim is in slavery and Huck and Tom try to help him escape. Huck also says that the right thing for him to do would be to turn Jim in and back to slavery. However, he says that he rather help Jim even if it was the wrong thing to do. The two of them found a great friendship that couldn't break even though the idea of slavery was supposed to. Huck realized the Jim was a great person, and no matter what the color of his skin was the two of them would always be friends.

Tom Sawyer, was supposed to be Hucks best friend. Why then if Huck and Tom are such great friends, did Tom not tell Huck that Jim was free? Tom tortured Jim with rats and kept Jim in his cabin instead of freeing him. Toms excuse was so that it would be more fun. But, why would he want to torture someone for fun and not free them as soon as they could? This brings up another question, Are Tom and Huck very good friends and is Tom a good example of a friend? In my opinion, I think that Tom is a very bad friend. Tom did not want to help Huck free Jim, instead he wanted to have fun and turn the freeing part into an adventure. To me this is not a good friend. If I would have know that Jim was free I would have told Huck right away and I would have freed Jim right away too. I don't understand how Huck could look up to someone who was supposed to be his friend, when this person does not act like one.