Huck’s character comes from a few incidents. Such as his time with Miss Watson ands the Widow Douglas. These two taught him to read and all the historical facts that he would later confuse horribly. Tom Sawyer is also one of the biggest influences on Huck. Huck throughout the novel always thinks of what Tom would do in his situation. Huck envied Tom’s fancy book smarts. This is ironic because Huck’s common sense proved much better than Tom’s knowledge of adventure stories. This proved true when it came time to free Jim. Huck came up with such a better plan than tom’s four week long over planned adventure.
Huck also changes his attitude toward slavery during the course of the novel. Toward the beginning he almost turns Jim in to slave hunters. During the story he hears of how Jim cared for his daughter and wife. Huck feels comfortable with Jim as a friend. By the end of the story he spends four weeks trying to get Jim out of the Phelps’ ranch.
Huck does have his share of bad qualities mixed in with his good nature. He isn’t opposed to stealing when he doesn’t have Tom around to remind him not to. Such as the beginning of the novel in witch Tom makes Huck leave a nickel for the candle he took. Later in the story Huck would take food from farms with Jim’s help. His good qualities include quick thinking and being able to tell white lies on the spot. Such as making up the George Jackson name and later pretending to be Tom Sawyer.
The environment Tom lived in made very little difference to Huck. He spent time in a stuffy house at the beginning. Then he floated down the Mississippi without a care in the world for a long time with Jim. He lived in elegance with the Grangefords and none of these changes affected Huck at all.

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