Huck Finns real father

Huck’s True Father In Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn young Huck seems to have two fathers. Pap, his biological father, and Jim, the runaway slave who befriends Huck and acts the way a real father should. Pap (Hulk’s biological father) is an alcoholic who treats Huck very poorly. He beats Huck whenever he is hitting the bottle and only returned to Huck’s life when he found out Huck …showed first 75 words of 384 total…

…showed last 75 words of 384 total…attempted to instill in Huck good, righteous beliefs. That is another way in which Jim was a true father. In conclusion, Jim was more of a “true” father to Huck then Pap for several reasons. These reasons were: (1)instilling beliefs that are right, (2) The way he treated Huck and (3)the things that he did for Huck with no personal benefit. Those are all the reasons why Jim was Huck's “true father” in Twain’s novel.