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Jim Helps Huck
" 'Well you wouldn't a ben here,'f it hadn't ben for Jim. You'd a ben down dah in de woods widout any dinner, en gittn' most drownded, too, dat you would.' " (Twain 49) -
Huck Decides to Save Robbers on Steamboat
"The first light we see, we'll land a hundred yards below it or above it, in a place where it's a good hiding-place for you and the skiff, and then I'll fix up some kind of yarn, and get somebody to go for that gang and get them out of their scrape, so they can be hung when their time comes." (Twain72) -
Huck and Jim's Friendship is Strained
"En when I wake up en fine you back agin', all safe en soun', de tears come en I could a got down on my knees en kiss' yo' foot I's so thankful. En all you wuz thinkin 'bout wuz how you could make a fool uv ole Jim wid a lie. Dat truck is trash; en trash is dat puts dirt on de head er dey fren's en makes 'em ashamed." (Twain 86) -
Huck's struck by his conscience
"I was paddling off, all in a sweat to tell on him; but when he says this, it seemed to kind of take all the tuck out of me. I went along slow then, and I warn't right down certain whether I was glad I started or whether I warn't." (Twain 90) -
Huck Follows His Conscience by Ripping Letter
"It was a close place. I took it up, and held it my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: 'All right, then, I'll go to hell'--and tore it up." (Twain 215) -
Jim Risks Freedom to Help Tom
"Well, den, dis is de way it look to me, Huck. Ef it wuz him dat 'uz bein' sot free, en one er de boys wuz to git shot, would he say, 'Go on en save me, nemmine 'bout a doctor f'r to save dis one?' Is dat like Mars Tom Sawyer? Would he say dat? Yout be he wouldn't! Well, den--is Jim gwyne to say it? No, sah--I doan' budge a step out'n dis place, 'dout a doctor; not if it's forty year!"(Twain 276)
