Throughout the novel, characters change very much. The most drastic change is in Huck. One of the youngest members of the story, Huck is still easily manipulated, as most teenagers are. Tom Sawyer, on one hand, is changed and “told what to do” by adventure novels and stories. Huck seems to eventually experience first hand that society is wrong

During some of the beginning of the novel, and then all the way towards the end, to keep Jim out of danger is the number one priority. In the beginning Huck and Tom want to rob, steal, kill, and make money. Towards the end, that didn’t matter much to Huck. During chapter 15, at Jim’s quote, Huck starts to change his mind. He feels guilty that Jim is the suspect for his “murder,” so that is why he decides to help him, even though he still thinks that it is wrong to help a slave escape. But later on in the book, he thinks that it is the only way to help Jim. By this time, he realizes that Jim is a person just like anyone else, and that he must treat people like people.

These character revelations and changes also do help to advance the story. This quote advances the story because it gets Huck to change his mind about Jim, slavery, morality, and Southern society. Over the course of the story, Huck changes his mind about slavery and realizes that it is morally wrong to buy and sell people. The way that the story advanced and picked up steam was when Huck was fa

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