Ways How Huckleberry Finn Tries to Help Jim In chapter 31, Huck fights with his conscience to decide whether to help Jim or not. In attempting to help jim , he comes up with solutions. At first, he decides to write to Tom sawyer, so he could tell where jim is but ends up not writing the letter since no one will take a runaway slave. After all, Ms Watson wouldn't be too pleasant with jim either and sell him down the river again for some cash. Another reason was that he didn't want to hurt jim's feelings. The people will make him feel ornery and disgraceful for running