Jim has a really odd and somewhat funny way to understand luck. According to Jim that if you have hair on your chest then you will become rich. He tells Huck about the time when he had fourteen dollars, which was a good amount money to have during the time he was in, and how he lost it to gambling and a bank scam. Jim blamed him losing the money on bad luck. Jim also tells Huck that touching snake skin is a sign for really bad luck and that all bad luck will catch up with you sometime or another. At first Huck did not believe Jim and he thought that Jim was just making those things up. One night a couple of rattlesnakes made their way into Jim and Huck's cave and later that day Huck notices one of the rattlesnakes and kills it, but unfortunately the other rattle snake bites Jim right on the heel. Jim is screaming in pain then he tells Huck to skin the snakes and hand him Pap's whisky bottle and tells Huck that he will live if Huck skins the snakes then throws them outside and he drinks the whisky the he will live. Huck believes Jim after that intense moment.
I think that Jim has such a weird thing about luck because he probably grew up learning various ways that you'll have good luck and heard them so many times that to him they just became the truth and he never thought that they sounded to outrageous
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