Huck and Jim escape the wreck of the Walter Scott, leaving behind a gang of murderous thieves with no way off of the ship. As they are drifting away, Huck sympathizes with the gang by placing himself in their position. He then tells Jim that they will send help to the gang as soon as they can. Huck shows signs of maturation in this scene because he decides to send help to the thieves even though they probably would not send help if they were in his position. In this scene, Huck plays a trick on Jim after they became separated. Huck finds Jim while he is sleeping, and so he lays down on the raft and pretends that the separation never occurred. When Jim awakes, Huck manages to convince him, for a time, that he dreamt the whole thing. Once Jim finds out he is being fooled, he becomes angry with Huck and isolates himself in the wigwam. Huck manages to apologize to him even though he is black. This shows that Huck is slowly getting past the issue of race and begins to see Jim as a person rather than an object.