Survival

When Huck and Jim reunited in the woods Jim was petrified,  he thought that Huck was a ghost that would hurt him. The novel follows much of Huck's escape from his Pap but only gives few details about Jims. He left his owner in fear of being sold off , and followed along rafts until he found the island. I wonder what could have happened if Jim were to have been caught by the men on the raft or even townspeople. If it wasn't for Huck I have a hard time believing that Jim would have survived long alone in the woods. All he had been eating were berries. He didn't have any weapons or materials to catch anything. Also if it wasn't for Jim , Huck and all of his supplies could have been washed away by the storm that was coming in. The characters are developing in many ways already by learning to help each other. That is what it'll take if the two of them plan to stay out of sight.