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I also believe that his companionship with the black slave Jim helped to shape his character as a human being. "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."(pg206) I believe this is the exact quote that shaped Huckleberry Finn's entire character, he now rejected everything he was taught in the past and made his own judgements on people and things based on what they did for him...
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His love for Jim made him tear up that letter and it took a lot of courage and guts on his part to do it. "I shoved the whole thing out of my head, and said I would take up wickedness again"(pg206)he was putting everything that was the norm behind him, he was making hi own rules...
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