I believe that Huck is a round character and Jim is a flat character. Huck has went through many phsychological changes throughout the course of the novel, where Jim has stayed just about the same as in the beginning.
In the beginning, Huck took a little more after his dad and didn't really care as much if he hurt other people as long as he got what he wanted. But as the novel progresses, Huck seems to get more of a conscience when he's not around his Pap and Tom Sawyer. For example, when the con men tried to steal from the Wilkes's family, Huck felt really bad and wanted to give the money back to the family. Another time, after he'd hurt Jim's feelings, he went over to Jim and apologized, which was VERY uncommon for a white man to do back in those times.
Jim hasn't really been phased a whole lot by what has happened to him. Maybe it's because he doesn't fully understand it all, or maybe it's because he's already been through some hardships in his life. Either way, Jim is still the naive, caring individual that thinks more with his heart than his brain. For instance, he talks about how he'd smacked his daughter and not known that she was deaf and how he said that he cried and cried and asked for forgiveness from God. I could still see Jim doing the same thing today as he did back then (not hitting her, I mean, but comforting someone after he'd hurt them).
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