Social Responsibility 1V

At first everyone at the hospital is treating Jim very poorly and even go as far as saying they want to hang him.  The doctor defends him, not necessarily in a way that indicates that Jim is a good human being but as a helpful nigger.  Then Jim is being kept chained up.  All of this was to expected for whenever Jim would eventually get caught, because nobody is going to treat Jim as good as Huck treated him, but it is certainly sad to see him being reduced to a captive like that, again.  Tom gets all fired up when he finds out what's going on and tries to convince everyone that Jim really has been freed.  This may just be because Tom really enjoys dramatic speeches and riling himself up about things, but I also think he feels like he owes Jim and really does care about him, just not as much as Huck does obviously because Huck and Jim have shared a bonding experience like none other. Eventually we find out that Miss Watson really did set Jim free in her will which shows that she did care about him more than anyone thought. When they unchain Jim, Tom gives Jim forty dollars for patiently waiting on Huck and Tom, and that shows how everything has sort of come full circle because when the duke and the dauphin sold Jim they sold him for forty dollars.  The final moment demonstrating social responsibility in the novel is when Jim reveals that Huck's father has been dead for a while and he never told him.  I guess even though Huck hates his pap Jim still wanted to protect him from the actual reality of seeing his dead father on the floor.  All of these characters ended up being good at protecting each other even though we never would have expected it in the beginning-because of social responsibility, and because of plain old friendship.