A main topic when disscusing Huck Finn is weather or not Huck is self-sufficiant. I don't think that he is. You can make the argument that since Huck ran away from his father and he figured out what do bring with him, he is self-sufficiant. But that is not what self-sufficiant means. The definition of self-sufficiant is: Self-sufficiency refers to the state of not requiring any outside aid, support, or (in hardline cases) interaction, for survival. Huck has never lived by himself, because he has always had his father giving him supplies, or one of the widows.
Now, Huck is with Jim, who is the reason that the two survive. Withouut Jim, Huck would not have found the cave to stay in, he wouldn't have gone into the town and found out that people were looking for him, and he wouldn't have been able to stay away from the people looking for him. Huck can't live without other people helping him. He thinks ahead, and plans things out, but he doesn't have many good ideas for survival.
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