Huck Finn Chapter 12-15

When Jim and Huck are running from everyone, they jump around a lot. When they are on one of the islands, they see a bunch of people in a boat wreck down the river. Huck imediately wants to go down and see the wreck. Jim hesitates because he didn't want it to be the widow or Huck's father on the boat. I think Huck wants to go down and help them for two specific reasons. The first reason is a purely selfish reason. He wanted to go down and steal whatever wasn't broken in the crash. I read something that made me remember the games Tom Sawyer wanted to play. How they would pretend to be robbers and murderers. This could play into Huck wanting to go and steal stuff out of the boat. The other reason he wanted to go down and help was because he knew if he was in that situation he would get pissed off if someone saw him stranded and simply passed him. Huck is always playing tricks and stuff but situations like this always prove to us that he is still good at heart. I guess the Widow helped him out afterall.