Huck faces many different Moral dilemmas throughout his adventures, all of which show the reader what kind of person he is. One of those is his choice to help Jim escape or turn him in to authorities and get the reward. The obvious choice that Huck decides on is to help Jim escape. He does not receive any kind of reward for helping Jim but receives better things than any type of physical reward could not offer.
One of the things that Huck learns or receives from helping Jim is that everyone should be treated equally. Huck first realizes this a little bit before they encounter the duke and the king, though he does not fully comprehend it yet. He felt horrible about helping Jim escape because of the way he was raised but he also had that lingering doubt that turning him in was wrong, especially since Jim did not kill anyone.
Another thing he gets from helping Jim escape is the satisfaction of doing the right thing even though many people in the south were against it. Huck and Jim encountered several people searching for runaway slaves. Those people would have probablyhave given him the reward and killed him if he had just turned Jim in to them. Huck knew this and helped Jim because jim was nice to him and he would have felt bad if that happened.
Although he first doubts his decision "Well, i can tell you it made me all over trembly and feverish, too, to hear, because I begun to get it through my head that he was most free-and who was to blame for it? Why, me." (Ch.16, p.66, par, 2), Jim and Huck become better friends the farther down the river they travel and end up looking out for each other. Huck eventually learns by the end that Jim is more than just a slave, He is a human being just like himself that deserves to be free.
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