A bond between two people is defined as “establishing a relationship with someone based on shared feelings, interests, or expectations,” which describes what Huckleberry and Jim shared events in the relationship throughout. novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The relationship between Huck and Jim was much more than two people escaping their troubles by going down the Mississippi River together on a raft. Both men shared the same interest in freedom, represented by the river on which they traveled. Friends shared a bond much stronger than the currents of the river. Jim doesn't have many people he can call friends, but he calls Huck his best friend. As they went down the river to Cairo, where Jim would be a free man, he said to Huck "'Pooty soon I'll shout for joy, and say it's all because of Huck. I'm a free man, and I never could have been free if Huck hadn't; Jim will never forget you, Huck there's only the fren that Jim has now.'" (page 75). Jim, being a minority during the Civil War era, did not have many, if any, people in whom he could instill confidence. He believed that Huck was the only white man who ever kept his promises and remained loyal to Jim. Huck and Jim had many adventures together on the raft. Although Jim was black and supposedly looked down upon by Huck, he viewed Jim as the father figure he never received from his abusive biological father. He looked up to Jim and Jim protected Huck like he was his son. Jim missed his own family, telling Huck "how the first thing he would do when he got to a free state, he would save money and never spend a single penny, and when he had enough, he would would... middle". of paper... for good, we might as well go all the way." (page 179). In the end, the bond between Huck and Jim won over Huck's social conventions. Huck and Jim have a strange relationship , but they each gave what the other needed in a friend Jim missed his wife and children from whom he had been separated due to their sale to separate slave owners, and Huck gave him something. 'one he had to care for and be close to, as he would be with his flesh and blood child Huck had an alcoholic and abusive father, and Jim, even though society told them he was. below his white friend, gave Huck a strong male figure he could look up to The bond between the two main characters in Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was not socially acceptable at that time, but their. friendship proves that the special bond between people is blind to age, color, gender, social class, disabilities, etc...