Jim as a True Hero

Even though, the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written as a sequence to the other famous Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, it is anything else but a children's book. Filled with social, racial, and religious problems, this novel will rather exhaust the children than entertain them. The title of the novel reveals undoubtedly who the main character of the novel will be - Huck. However, sometimes people tend to confuse the …

…to the whole world, and who sets a perfect example to follow. Shocking or obvious that is what Jim is. He was the courageous man that escaped to safe his family and went through a lot of adventures. But when finally he had that longed for freedom, he sacrificed it to save a man. Now we can only thank Mark Twain for showing us the other side of the black man - the white one.