Huck Finn And Pap's Relationship

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Pap, Huckleberry’s father, doesn’t show fatherly qualities, because he doesn’t offer his son any parental guidance or support. Because of this, Huck leaves his father and finds Jim, Miss Watson’s household slave. Even though in the beginning of the novel, Huck sees Jim as nothing more than just a runaway slave who is accompanying him to embark on their journey down the Mississippi River to the town of Cairo together. As they travel, Jim becomes more apparent as a fatherly figure and a mentor to Huck in many ways throughout their journey. When Jim and Huck are still on Jackson’s island, they see a house that is washed away due to a recent storm. Upon closer inspection of the house, Jim sees Pap’s dead body in one of the rooms. Thinking about Huck, Jim uses his better judgment and tells Huck to, “Come in, Huck, but doan' look at his face -- it's too gashly.” (Twain 38). Jim, who saw that Pap, “ben shot in de back” (Twain 38) wants to keep Huck away from the cruelness of other humans in the world as Pap was shot by somebody else.
While in the care of the Grangerfords, Buck, one of the sons, tries to kill a man named Harney Shepherdson. At that time, Huck discovers the feud between the two families. One day after he attends church, he unknowingly helps Sophia Grangerford run off with Harney Shepherdson to get married. After learning this fact the next day, he finds Buck and another young Grangerford in a gunfight with the Shepherdsons. Soon, he finds the dead bodies of the two boys. Huck, “cried a little when I was covering up Buck's face, for he was mighty good to me” (Twain 87). After learning the lesson that the world can be a cruel place, he returns to Jim and the raft, and together they travel downstream