Jims breakdown

Jim has a huge breakdown at the end of this chapter. Huck wakes up to find him in tears and he tells Huck about his daughter. His daughter had scarlet fever and went deaf because of it. Jim goes on crying and says how he hit her when she didn’t do what he wanted her to do, but she couldn’t do it because she couldn’t hear him. He feels so bad about what he did, and this just shows how compassionate and caring Jim is.  He wants to be the good guy and after punishing his own daughter before really understanding the full story, he is a much more caring and patient man