Two women take a journey with their children because they wanted Christ to bless their children. During that time, Jesus preached to others, so the the discipled turned the women away. However, Christ heard this and stopped and started preaching to the children around him (Kids Time 1). Christ ceased his preaching because being kind to others is being generous to Jesus himself. Similarly, in Mark Twain’s, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim, a slave, becomes cordial to others even though they do not treat him correctly because of his appearance. Jim acts as an embodiment of Christ because he exerts fatherly actions and remains brutally disliked because of his appearance; however, some believe Jim’s superstitions …show more content…
Instead, Christ decided to start preaching to the children around them. Jim constantly suffers from discrimination, but still realizes that different methods can be used to be kind to others. Correspondingly, Jim becomes a metaphorical father to Huck and Tom, as well as disliked by several because of his race, which makes him an embodiment of Christ; however Jim believes in superstitions which make him unlike the Lord. Throughout Huck and Jim’s adventure, they encounter innumerable treacherous occasions, such as when Huck and Jim find a dead man in a floating house on the river and Jim protects Huck from acknowledging the ghastly body by covering it up, however, later in the book, Huck finds out that Jim protected him from knowing that the man in the floating house was his father. Jim also helps the doctor nurture Tom back to health after he got shot assisting in Jim’s escape. In addition, Jim runs away from his home at Miss Watson’s because she will sell Jim for eight hundred dollars, in spite of how loyal Jim continues to be. Comparatively, the king sells Jim for a measly forty dollars so he can go drink and scam other townspeople. Jim follows along with their absurd plans and keeps quiet, but still the king sells him. However, Jim has superstitions, such as when him and Huck stay on the island and Jim stares a flock of birds, a signal of rain. In opposition, Christ believes in the Lord Almighty, while Jim does not have any information on the Lord. Many despise Jim because of his race, just like others loathed the Lord because of his beliefs, however they both became effigies of parents, even though Jim has