How Does Huck Finn Characterize Jim's Superstition

Huck insinuates both that Jim’s superstition is silly and that his actions may have actually brought them good fortune. Jim responds, “Never you mind, honey, neveryou mind. Don’t you get too peart. Mind I tell you, it’s a-comin”(62). Huck then narrates that Jim’s prediction comes true. Huck plants a dead snake in Jim’s bed to play a joke on him, but the snake’s mate comes to its body and bites Jim when he goes to bed. Huck rightly blames himself, and after Jim suffers for four days, swears never to touch another snakeskin.

Huck’s restlessness then leads to an opportunity to for him both acknowledge Jim’s cleverness and to show that he is willing to protect him. As the next few days go by, Huck becomes bored and suggests that he go into town

She also tells Huck of a $300 reward on Jim’s head and explains how she told her husband of her suspicion, and how he and another man are in preparation to investigate. Huck carefully avoids leaving any tracks as he hurries back to the island. When he arrives, he cries the only line of dialogue between him and Jim in chapter eleven: “Git up and hump yourself, Jim! There ain’t a minute to lose, they’re after us!” (75). Jim responds without a word, working urgently to pack up and leave. They launch the raft and head downriver without saying a word, making good their

Huck tells Jim that Solomon is indeed the wisest man ever to live, on the authority of the widow’s testimony. Jim dissents again, referencing the fable in which Solomon threatens to cut a baby in half to determine its mother. He disputes Solomon’s logic, offering instead that the king should have treated the child like lost money and sought its rightful parent instead of risking ending up with, as Jim puts it, “half a chile” (95).

Jim uses his money analogy again to question the validity of bisection, saying that there is little use for either half a bill or half a child. Huck tries to interject that the point of the fable is not that Solomon chose to threaten to cut the child in half, but Jim is adamant that Solomon lacks common sense, saying that a man who would act as Solomon did “doan’ know enough to come in out’n de rain” (95). Jim then states that the fact that Solomon had so many wives, and subsequently children, was the cause of his casual attitude towards the safety of the child. He tells Huck that a man with only one or two children would be much more careful about their physical well-being, calling on his own personal experience as a loving father with only one wife. Huck marvels at Jim’s stubbornness and decides to change the