Giovanni TorresMrs. Pearson12/8/14English 11 L3 In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," written by Mark Twain, a teenager named Huckleberry Finn finds himself on a long excursion on the run from his father along the Mississippi River, helping him find individualistic morality and responsibility . As the novel progresses, the reader sees a great contrast between the two main characters, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. Romantic Tom and realistic Huck are friends along this road of endless adventure. Both Huck and Tom vary and differ greatly through their individual capacity for brain performance, their response to the society and life they are surrounded by, and their different reactions to the slavery around them, especially Jim. ATom and Huck individually have conflicting ideas and methods regarding how to save Jim from slavery. Tom is extremely complicated and full of unnecessary embellishments. It has an “unrealistic, narrow and idealistic” morality of authorities and “gold-leaf” distinctions. (Huck the Thief- Link)” This is present because of his devotion to the dream tactics you read about in his books. It basically states that there is “honor in emerging from many difficulties and dangers. (215 Two)”. Tom cultivates irrational and impractical plans only to turn a simple situation into something beyond the problem. An example of this is when he decides to go against Jim's word and fill his shed with wild animals instead of just getting the job done and keeping it simple. In contrast, Huck's plan is immensely simple. In Tom's eyes, Jim will always be considered just a "nigger". The time frame was that someone of that color was considered less than a human being and incapable of feeling emotions. Tom cannot see Jim as human because his mind is shaped to believe that black people are neither equal nor human. Tom chooses the path of conformism, he does not seek the ability to change his opinions on the topic of slavery. Tom is so caught up in his world, or better yet the normality of society, that he uses Jim as a game and because of this Jim is left to suffer. Tom does not tell Huck or Jim that Miss Watson legally freed Jim in her will after her death. Without that documentation, Tom would never have agreed to help Huck free Jim from slavery. As for Huck's reaction to Jim, it does not remain constant throughout the novel. As the reader learns, the more time Huck spends with Jim, the more that time allows him to develop morality, causing Huck to begin to value Jim as human rather than property. He considers Jim as his friend because of Jim's ability to open up to Huck and show vulnerability. “Jim talks about missing a family and Huck understands that this man is human. When he finds that the raft and Jim are missing, “he sat down and cried