Jim and Huck: Friends Forever

To me, Mark Twain had a purpose putting Jim and Huck together. Why Jim, why not Tom or one of the other children, Pap perhaps? I think Mark really wanted to get one message across the nation and everyone who read this book---"Get With it People, Racism and Segregation is Wrong" . Mark Twain uses Huck, a neutral mind because he is a kid, tell that"White and Black people are not so different after all". He shows this through the trust that Jim and Huck both shared during the escape, such as, when Huck promises not to tell that Jim ran away and when Huck helps take care of Jim's injury with the snake accident.