Huck Finn- Jim

Jim seems like a character that buck will begin to be dependent on. Although Huck shows great capability, in staging his own death and surviving in the wilderness to avoid being found out, he seems relieved when stumbling upon Jim in the woods. Jim is religious on another level, his superstitions dictate his behavior and affect the actions he takes in the book. From the beginning, after seeing Huck alive in the wake of his supposed "death," Jim initially believes Huck is a ghost sent to haunt him. He speaks about a great respect for the dead in the hopes that Huck's ghost won't kill him. Jim gets bitten by a snake and his solution to this is to cook part of it and eat it. It's also shown that different superstitions have differing levels of affect. For instance seeing a new moon over your left shoulder means less bad luck than handling snake skin. Huck, who I believe is superstitious himself, takes great interest in Jim's suspicions. Meanwhile he mocked the widower in her religious convictions. He referred to Old Hank Bunker as a fool for not following the superstitions.