And got to thinking over our trip down the river and I see Jim before me all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But I didn’t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking–thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.
Miss Watson, your runaway slave Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville, and Mr. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote: Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather right straight off, and my troubles all gone. At last I had an idea and I says, I’ll go and write the letter - and then see if I can pray. So I was full of trouble, full as I could be and didn’t know what to do. I was trying to make my mouth say I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that slave’s owner and tell where he was but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. I was letting on to give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. It was because my heart warn’t right it was because I warn’t square it was because I was playing double. I knowed very well why they wouldn’t come. Why wouldn’t they? It warn’t no use to try and hide it from Him. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn’t try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. Well, I tried the best I could to kinder soften it up somehow for myself by saying I was brung up wicked, and so I warn’t so much to blame but something inside of me kept saying, “There was the Sunday-school, you could a gone to it and if you’d a done it they’d a learnt you there that people that acts as I’d been acting about that slave goes to everlasting fire.” In these lines are a decision by Huck which both embody and symbolize a turning point in American history.Ī passage from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
In the following passage, Huck considers whether or not to write a letter to Jim’s owner and do what society expected of him (turn Jim in) or to be loyal to his friend and help him escape to freedom. Huckleberry Finn’s friend Jim was a slave, and Jim was caught as a runaway slave while on a trip with Huck.
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