I waked him up, and I reckogned it was going to be a grand surprise to him to see me again, but it warn’t. He nearly cried, he was so glad, but he warn’t
surprised. Said he swum along behind me, that night, and heard me yell every time,but dasn’t answer, because he didn’t want nobody to pick him up, and take
him into slavery again. Says he- “I got hurt a little, en couldn’t swim fas’, so I wuz a considable ways behine you,
towards de las’; when you landed I reck’ned I could ketch up wid you on de lan ‘dout havin’ to shout at you, but when I see dat house I begin to go slow. I ‘uz off
too fur to hear what dey say to you- I wuz ‘fraid o’ de dogs- but when it uz all quiet agin, I knowed you’s in de house, so I struck out for de woods to wait for day. P
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Although Jim had done his night watch because he didn’t want Huck gets tired. Huck narration about Jim showed that Jim is very loyal to Huck.
The lightening was glaring. I went to sleep, and Jim didn’t call me when it was my turn. He often done that. When I waked up, just at day-break, he was
setting there with his head down betwixt his knees, meaning and mourning to himself. :P.201: line 11
5. Resourceful
Jim is good at solving difficulties, that’s why he is called as a resourceful person. This is one of Jim characteristic. This character can be seen in the scene when Jim meets
Huck in Jackson Island. The dialogue showed that when Jim in trouble or difficulties he can solve it. When Jim ran to the Island he couldn’t found any house to live with, so he
made a shelter for himself, it showed that Jim is a resourceful man.
“Well, when it comes no track We judged that the three nights more would fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comes in, and that
was what we was after, we would sell the raft and get on a steamboat and go way up the Ohio amongst the free states, and then be get out of trouble. P.104: line 9.
Another fact that Jim is a resourceful man showed when he had been bitten by a snake. He knows what to do with it, he gave direction to Huck what to do about it, to
overcome the bite. He knows things that are useful for the injured he had by a snake.
He jumped up yelling, and the first thing the light showed was the varmint curled up and ready for another spring. I laid him out in a second with a stick, and
Jim grabbed pap’s whisky jug and begun to pour it down. He was barefooted, and the snake bit him right on the heel. That all comes of my
being such a fool as to not remember that wherever you leave a dead snake its
mate always comes there and curls around it. Jim told me to chop off the snake’s head and throw it away, and then skin the body and roast a piece of it. I done it,
and he eat it and said it would help cure him. P.80: line 12
When Huck and Jim were on their journey and their raft got rained, Jim showed his resourceful by solving the rain problem.
When it was beginning to come on the dark, we poked our heads out the cottonwood thicket and looked up, and down, and across; nothing in sight; so Jim
took up some of the top planks of the raft and built a snug wigwam to get under in blazing weather and rainy, and to keep the dry. Jim made a floor for the wigwam,
and raised it a foot or more above the level of the raft, so now the blankets and all the traps was out of the reach of steamboat waves. P.94:line13
6. Practical
