The adventures of huckleberry finn - chapter summaries
Chapter 1
The book opens as we are introduced to the main protagonist Huck Finn, we learn that he is taken in by a widow, has a friend named Tom Sawyer and dislikes Moses because he is dead. 'because i take no stock in dead people.' We learn that Tom Sawyer is not a part of a good crowd as Huck asks the widow if she thinks Tom will go to the good place but replies 'not by a considerable sight'. He says he is glad about this because he wants to be together with him. He then goes upto his room and hears a sound coming from the woods which sounds like a ghost. He then hears something approaching him and hears a 'me-yow! me-yow!', and finds Tom Sawyer waiting for him.
Chapter 2
Huckleberry sneaks out of his room and meets up with Tom Sawyer where they both take some candles from Jim and leave 5 cents on the table. They then reach the hill top away from the village, where they meet Jo Harper and Ben Rogers and 2 or 3 more of the boys who were hiding in the 'old tranyard'. They then go towards these bushes and Tom makes everyone swear to keep a secret and shows them a hole behind the bushes. They then light the candles and crawl through the hole about 200 yards when they reach a cave. Tom decides to start a band of robbers called 'Tom Sawyers gang', he makes everyone take an oath and write their name in blood. Everyone agrees to this. Tom reads out a long oath which he had written. The gang activities included killing people and stealing.
"We are highwaymen. We stop stages and carriages on the rosf, with masks on and kill the people and take their watches and money". Tom says they will meet next week Sunday and kill people and steal. The boys elect Tom Sawyer as the captain and Jo Harper as second captain of the gang. The chapter closes with Huck sneaking back into his room.
Chapter 3
The chapter begins with Huckleberry explaining how he got into trouble in the morning from Ms.Watson, who then tells him to pray which will grant him with whatever he wishes for but explains that he tried it but it never worked. 'Once I got a fish line but no hooks'. He also tells us when she tried to convince him not to think about himself but always look out for other people and help others but he states that he see's no good in this. Huck then tells us about his father who he doesn't see and dislikes him because his father used to'whale at him when he was sober and could get his hands on him.' We learn that his father is supposedly dead after his corpse was found in a river and assumes it was his dad due to its ragged appearance. He realises that it is not his father because 'a drownded man don't float on his back'. He expresses his concern of seeing his dad again and feels uncomfortable. He then tells us all members quit the gang after a month of playing 'cops and robbers' having actually killed no one or stolen anything. Huck then tells us of a time when they were supposed to rob these 'A-rabs and Spaniards' but it ended up being a school picnic which they raised after chasing the children. He tell us they got nothing but jam and doughnuts. He questions Tom who then claims some enemies called magicians turned the whole thing into a Sunday school out of spite.
Chapter 4
Chapter 4 opens with readers learning that 4 months later in winter, Huck tells us he went to school most of the time and was able to read, spell and write a little. He tells us he knew his multiplication table until 'six times seven is thirty-five' He describes his hate for maths and suggests he could never go further than that 'I don't take no stock in mathematics anyway.' Huck tells the readers how he hated school at first but the more he went, the easier it became. The next morning he tries to throw salt over his left shoulder to keep away from bad luck but Miss Watson insists he is making a mess so instead put's in a good word for him. He then climbs over the fence to the front garden when he notices someone's tracks in the snow. He then bends down to take a closer look at the tracks rather than follow them and noticed there was a cross in the left boot-heel made with big nails to keep off the devil. He rushes to Judge Thatcher and tries to give him all his money in exchange for a dollar. Huck then decides to visit 'Miss Watson's nigger Jim' who happens to have a hair ball which he took out of the fourth stomach of an Ox and did magic with claiming there was a spirit in the side of it and knew everything. Jim insists the hair-ball does not talk without money sometimes, Huck then hands him a fake quarter and the hair-ball becomes willing to talk. The hairball tell's him that his father has two angels one white and one black, one good and one bad but insists Huck is safe for now. It also tells him he will marry a poor woman and then a rich woman and should stay clear of water which is where he will die. Later that night Huck goes back to his room to find that his dad is waiting for him.
Chapter 5
Huck tells begins to tell us how he used to be scared of his father but now he did not bother about him. 'We learn that his father is fifty and looked like it. He describes his father - 'his hair was long and tangled and greasy, and hung down, and you could see his eyes shining through like he was behind vines. It was all black, no gray ; so was his long, mixed-up whiskers. There warn't no colour in his face, where his face showed; it was white; not like another man's white, but a white to make a body sick, a white to make a body's flesh crawl - a tree-toad white, a fish-belly white.' Huck notices that the window was up, meaning his father climbed in through the window from the shed, he stares intensely at Huck. His father then mocks his clothing calling his clothes 'starchy', Huck replies back sarcasticly and his father then answers back. His father then tries to put Huck down by mocking that he had an education, can read and write and threatens him - 'I'll take you down a peg before I get done with you'. His father forces him to quit school, claiming no one in his family could read or write before they died meaning he is not an exception. His father puts him down constantly saying 'I never seen such a son' after Huck reads a passage of a book to his father, his father becomes agitated and throws the book and tears his picture which he was rewarded with. He also compares his living to Huck's claiming he sleeps with hogs in the tanyard whereas Huck sleeps with 'A bed, and bed-clothes; and a look'n-glass; and a piece of carpet on the floor - and your own father got to sleep with the hogs in the tanyard'. His father demands Huck to give him the money he found tomorrow but Huck insists he does not have the money he tells his father he has a dollar which he wants to keep but takes it off him to buy whisky with, claiming he hasn't drunk all day. The next day his father shows up drunk at Judge Thatcher's and forces him to give the money but Judge Thatcher refuses. His father then swears he will make the law force him. The judge and widow went to court to take Huck away from his father allowing one of them to be his guardian but the Judge was new The judge claims that the court must not interfere in family matters. His father gets arrested repeatedly and the Judge decides to reform him by taking him into his home, giving him new clothes and a room but his father every night escaped through the window and sold his things. He also breaks his arm in 2 places after rolling of the porch. The judge comes to a conclusion that the only way to reform him is with a shotgun because he did not know any other way.
Chapter 6
Huck tells us how his father continued to beat him whenever he found him going to school and went to Judge Thatcher in the courts to make him give up the money. Huck tells us how he doesn't really want to go to school but would go just to annoy his dad. We learn that the law trial barely proceeded and was very slow. Hucks father continues to get drunk and one day in spring ends kidnapps Huck taking him into the woods, to a cabin which no one would find. He keeps Huck with him all the time, making it impossible for him to escape, keeping the key under his head at night. The widow even tried sending a man to try get Huck back but his father scares him with his gun. Huck eventually adapts to his new life and enjoys the laziness and not having to do any work, and changes his mind about going back. Huck begins to change his mind again after his father continuously goes out, one day locking him in for 3 days. Huck assumes his dad has drowned and isn't going to come back so tries to leave somehow, struggling to escape. 'There warn't a window to it big enought for a dog to get through. I couldn't get up the chimbly, it was too narrow'. Huck manages to find a saw and and starts cutting a hole and when he finishes, he hears his fathers gun go off and see's his father coming back. His father in his normal mood starts challenging the widow again, stating how he would love to see her try to take Huck. His father then threatens him again 'If they tried to come any such game on him, he knowed of a place six or seven mile off, to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn't find me. This makes Huck feel uneasy so he decides to runaway before his father reaches that stage far away across the country so neither his father or the widow can find him. Hucks father gets drunk but does not fall asleep and Huck evetually gets tired of waiting and falls asleep himself. His father then wakes up after being drunk and begins to chase Huck around the cabin with a clasp-knife calling him the 'Angel of death'. His father evtually grabs him but Huck slips out of his jacket and escapes. At this point his father becomes tired and says he will kill him after he gets up. Huck takes this chance to take the gun and points it toward his sleeping father and waits for him to wake up.
Chapter 7
Not having a clue of what happened on earlier, Huck's father wakes up and demands to know why Huck is holding a gun. Huck then makes up a lie and claims someone tried to get in. His father then sends Huck to see if any fish have been caught on the lines. Huck then spots a canoe. 13ft long and paddles it along to shore and hides it in the woods later for when he escapes. Huck then decides to take supplies from the house and takes a sack of corn, bacon, coffee, sugar and ammunition. He also takes coffee pots and fish lines. He then hides the hole that he made and then spots a wild pig which he shoots. Huck breaks the door with an axe and brings the pig in and 'hacked into his throat with the axe, and laid him down on the ground to bleed'. He then takes a sack and puts lots of big rocks inside. Huck makes the cabin to look as if its been robbed. Huck escapes to the canoe and waits for the moon to rise but falls asleep and wakes up to see his father rowing by in the distance and as he approaches, he passes Huck.. Huck then sets out to go down the river. Later Huck arrives at Jackson's island and decides to take a nap.
Chapter 8
The morning after, Huck hears a deep sound of 'boom' and notices a ferry passing Jackson Island, as the ferry approaches Huck see's everyone in board from Judge Thatcher, Pap, Bessie Thatcher, Jo Harper, Tom Sawyer, his aunt Poly, Sid, Mary '7 plenty more. Huck hears them talking about the murder. 'Look sharp, now; the current sets in the closest here, and maybe he's washed ashore and got tangled amongst the brush at the water's edge.' The ferry then lets off a canon which almost makes Huck deaf. The ferry then moves on after letting off canons but eventually stops at home in town. Huck then decides no on else will come for him so sets up a camp. Huck after setting up his camp begins to feel lonely 'When it was dark I set by myself by my camp fire smoking, and feeling pretty satisfied; but by and by it got sort of lonesome'. Huck stays like this for 3 days and night. The next day he decides to go exploring but comes across a smoking camp-fire, Huck quickly sneaks back to his camp and packs everything in the canoe and climbs up the tree, staying there for 2-3 hours. After deciding he couldn't stay up there forever he comes down from the tree. Huck tries to go on as normal but cant sleep without thinking that someone will have him by the neck when he wakes up. Huck then decides to go find out who is on the Island. Huck gets out his gun, and watches closely noticing a man lying down with a blanket over his face. When the man stretches, Huck suddenly notices it is Jim. Huck confronts Jim who is scared by Huck's sudden presence and think's it is a ghost, pleading for Huck not to kill him. Huck then explains how he planned his escape, Huck questions Jim's presence on Jackson Island where Jim reveals that despite saying she wont, he overhears Miss Watson discussing to sell him for $800 and upon hearing this escapes. Huck and Jim talk about their money and superstitions about good and bad luck.
Chapter 9
Huck and Jim decide to make a hiding place after their previous encounters on the Island so they discover a cave in which they settle down in. Jim predicts that there will be a storm and heavy rain, 'He said them little birds had said it was going to rain'. As Jim predicts they are hit with a big storm 'Directly it begun to rain, and it rained like all fury too'. The river raises for 10-12 days till the water was over the banks. One night Jim & Huck discover a two-story house on the west side. They peer in through the window to find something laying on the floor which turns out to be a man. Jim calls out to the man but he does not budge when they discover that the naked and dead man to be shot in the back. Huck & Finn grab all the clothing and stock they can and stash it in the canoe. They set off a quarter of a mile below the Island, as it is broad daylight Huck tells Jim to lie down with a quilt over his face in the canoe, as his black complexion can easily been seen from miles away. Huck paddles over to the Illinois Shore and then make it back home to the Island safe.
Chapter 10
Huck continues to think about the dead man but Jim refuses to discuss it as he finds that it is bad luck to talk about a dead person who has not been buried as he/she will haunt you. Jim explains to Huck that snake-skin is bad luck, "Now you think it's back luck ; but what did you say when I fetched in the snake-skin that I found on top of the ridge day before yesterday? you said it was the worst bad luck to touch a snake-skin with my hands!' refusing to believe this Huck plays a prank on Jim, putting a dead rattle snake near his feet waiting for him to wake up. As Jim wakes up he finds the friend of the dead snake near him and bites him on the heel of his foot. Jim tells Huck to cut off the neck of the snake, throw it away, skin the body & roast a piece of it. Jim makes Huck cut off the rattles and ties them around his wrist.s Huck does as he says not wanting Jim to know it was his fault. Jim's foot and leg swells up remaining like this for 4 days. After he recovers, Huck decides to slip over the river and find out what is going on. Huck shortens the calico gown and dresses up like a girl. Huck starts up the Illinois shore, across to the town where the ferry landed. Huck spots a light burning in a shanty in which no one had lived in for a long time. Huck peeps through the window to find a 40 year old woman knitting, Huck does not recognise her and assumes she is new in town so takes this opportunity to get some information. The chapter ends with Huck knocking at the door.
Chapter 11
The chapter begins with the Woman inviting Huck in, and asks him what his name is, Huck lying replies back with 'Sarah William's'. The woman questions Huck, asking where is from. Huck lies and says that he is from Hookerville and has walked 7 miles and was so hungry he had to stop at a farm to eat. He lies that his mother is sick, the woman reveals all that has been going on saying Tom Sawyer found six thousand dollars and Pap coming into town, telling everyone Huck was murdered. Huck learns that there is a search for both Old Finn & Jim with a reward of $300 for Jim and $200 for Old Finn. The woman stares suspiciously at Huck, 'she was looking at me pretty curious, and smiling a little'. The woman asks Huck what his name again, with Huck mistakenly replying back with 'Mary Williams'. The woman questions Huck again stating 'Honey, I thought you said it was Sarah when you first come in?'. The lady confirms her suspicion as she confronts Huck 'Come now, what's your real name', 'Is it Bill, Tom or Bob?'. The woman assures Huck that she will not hurt him as he begins to panic. She then figures he is a runaway apprentice and claims she wont turn him in to authorities. Huck going along confirms this and says he is an apprentice working for a horrible farmer. She again asks a series of questions about working on a farm, Huck passing the test leaves quickly back to the cave, waking Jim up and informing him that people are after him and they must leave. They both set out on the river on a raft.
Chapter 12
Jim and Huck quickly leave the island and take their raft along the river, with Missouri on one side and Illinois on the other. They travel secretly during the night, and in the day they cover it with branches so that no one will see when passing by. Huck lands at a town to buy food or steal a chicken when he remembers his father who told him that you might as well steal a chicken whenever you can, because if you don’t want it yourself, you can give it away. Huck claims that stealing is actually just borrowings if you intended to give it back. Jim then suggests they should pick three things so they won’t steal any more, and everything else will be fine, re-assuring themselves. Huck and Jim then comes across a wrecked steamship in a storm. At first Jim is hesitant to check out the boat but then they both still go with Huck claiming that if Tom Sawyer was here he would not be scared. Huck climbs onto the boat and overhears three robbers, two of them which threaten to kill the third man. On the boat is Jake Packard a man with the gun, he tries to convince his friend to kill the third man who is named Jim Turner. We learnt that Jake is afraid Jim will "turn state’s evidence. Jake then comes up with an alternative plan "we'll rustle around and gether up whatever pickins we overlooked in the staterooms, and shove for shore and hide the truck. He'll be drownded and won't have nobody to blame for but his own self" to steal all they can find on the boat and wait for Jim to eventually drown. As Huck tries to escape he gets trapped but finds his way out returning to Jim and telling him to quickly get a sheriff. The Chapter ends with the Raft being broken and Jim and Huck being boat less.
Chapter 13
Jim and Huck make their way down to the end of the ship and find the robbers’ skiff. As the robbers approach, they hide in the dark and watch Jake and Bill load up with the stolen goods. When the two robbers go back for more, Huck and Jim jump into the skiff and start to make their way down the river, trying to find their own raft. Huck begins to have a moral crisis about leaving the man to die on the sinking steamship and feels bad so he decides that as soon as they see lights on the shore, they’ll stop and send someone back to the ship to help save the man. Eventually they catch up to their raft, Huck leaves Jim with the raft heads for shore. He soon comes across a ferry near little town and greets the watchman. Huck then lies and breaks down in tears and pretends that his family is stuck on the steamship. "I give his shoulders two or three little shoves, and begun to cry". The watchman offers to help "Hello what's up? don't cry, bub what's that matter?" but does not know who is going to pay for the trouble it will take to go over and rescue Huck's family. Huck pretends that one of the women stuck on the ferry is the niece of the richest man in town. The watchman takes off and Huck knows he leave but stays to make sure the man is okay. Huck then feels that he should congratulate himself for being good and wishes that the Widow had seen all that he had done. After the wrecked boat comes towards him on the river and looks as though no one survived. "Here comes the wreck, dim and dusky sliding along down!". "I hollered a little but there wasn't any answer; all dead still."
Chapter 14
The Chapter begins with Huck and Jim looking at all they have stolen they got from the robbers boat. Huck gets excited thinking about all the journeys and adventures they have been on but Jim feels differently as he’d rather not have any more near-death experiences. As part of the stuff they got from the steamship they have a lot of books. Huck reads some of them to Jim and then gets into a conversation about dukes and kings. He tells Jim about the circumstances surrounding these men. Jim is shocked because he’s never heard of kings before except for Solomon, from the Bible. Jim is sceptical that kings can get all the riches they want just by sitting around all day. Huck confirms that this is the case. Jim says that if Solomon had a thousand wives, he wasn't actually that smart after all, because he’d have to listen to the women blabbing all the time. We then see Huck remembering what the Widow taught him from the Bible. He tries to explain Solomon and his story to Jim. Jim misunderstands and thinks Solomon is stupid for wanting to cut a child in half, because half a child isn't good to anybody.They then begin to talk about language as Huck explains that a Frenchman doesn't speak the same way they do. Jim thinks of this as ridiculous claiming 'All cats talk the same. All dogs talk the same. Why shouldn't all men talk the same?'
Chapter 15
Huck and Jim head to Cairo which is at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comes in. They both hope to sell the raft and take a steamboat to Ohio which is a free state. They figure it will take about three more days to get there. There turns out of be heavy fog when suddenly Huck goes ahead in the canoe and gets separated from Jim and the raft. Jim tries to find to Huck, but in the fog and confusion he can’t find his way back. so he panics for a bit and ends up going to sleep. The next day the fog disappears when Huck finds Jim, who has also been sleeping. He lies down on the raft and wakes Jim, pretending that he’s been there asleep the whole night and that the fog incident was all a dream. "Hello Jim have i been asleep? Jim then notices the leaves on the raft, and realizes that it was not a dream. Huck is still in stitches, but Jim is genuinely hurt. He says he thought Huck had died in the fog and was just miserable over the whole thing. Huck realizes his joke mean and decides to apologize, which he finds difficult to do because Jim is black. Still Huck apologises to Jim.
Chapter 16
Huck and Jim continue on their way to Cairo but realise that how will they know when they get there once they've arrived. Huck paddles ashore, and lies some lies to find out how far they are from Cairo. Huck has a moral crisis because he feels guilty for stealing Miss Watson's slave because all she ever did was teach him about religion and manners and he’s repaying her by stealing her property. On the other hand he feels bad for Jim who keeps reminding and thanking Huck for helping him, making Huck feel even more guilty and confused. Jim decides he’ll save up his money until he has enough to go back south and buy his wife and his two children from the farms around Miss Watson’s. If that doesn't work, he says, he’ll just steal them. This irritates Huck even more when they spots lights at the shore and paddles out in the canoe he changes his mind again about turning Jim in. Jim tells Huck how he has been such a good friend and how he’ll always be grateful. They both come across these men on the raft who are looking for runaway slaves themselves and want to inspect the raft that Huck has left behind. Huck lies and pretends Pap is inside with the small-pox and is contagious. Huck tricks the men who then take off give Huck two twenty-dollar gold pieces to help. Jim and Huck eventually realise that they cant figure out where Cairo is and suddenly realise they most likely passed it in the fog. They change their plan and decide to sell their raft as soon as possible and take a steamboat up to the north. Huck and Jim hide their stuff and go to sleep in the thicket, but when they come back, the canoe is gone. Jim believe this is all because of the dead rattlesnake skin. Soon after large steamboat comes towards them and smashes through their raft - Jim and Huck dive in the water separate ways and get split up. Huck swims to shore and ends up being attacked by a pack of dogs.
Chapter 17
While Huck is questioned by someone in a nearby house asking him who he is. Huck lies and says his name is George Jackson. The man questions Huck whether he is associated with the Sheperdsons, Huck refuses and manages to convince the man who lets him into the house. Huck after entering has men pointing their guns directly at him. The man introduces himself as Saul, and his daughter Rachel his wife, Buck who is Huck’s age, and Betsy their black slave. Buck takes Huck upstairs to get him some dry clothes. They then sit down to dinner where Huck eats together with the family and lies to them about his family in Arkansas. The next morning Huck forgets what the name was which he made up so he challenges Buck, accusing him that he can't spell who then spells his name. The girl in the picture named Emmeline Grangerford, kept a scrapbook with poems, Huck feels bad that she wrote poems but no one wrote one for her when she died. He then tries to write a poem.
Chapter 18
When the boys are outside walking one day, Buck tells Huck to jump into the bushes quickly as a man on horse approaches. The man happens to be Harney Shepherdson, and Buck tries to shoot him with his gun from his hiding place in the bushes. He misses and they run home. Huck questions Buck and why they tried to shoot the man, Buck explains the whole family feud to Huck and how it started 30 years ago. Buck tells Huck that his cousin who was 14 was shot to death by a Shepherdson so in return they killed the Sheperdson. After going to Church, Miss Sophia takes Huck aside and asks for a favour which is that she left her prayer book at church, and asks him to bring it back. Huck accepts but he knows something is going on - He looks through the book and finds a note that says half-past two. When Sophia gets the book and the note, she’s seems excited, which she tries to cover up by telling Huck the note was just her bookmark. The slave who has been serving Huck asks him to come down to the swamp where he finds Jim. He then explains what happened after they were separated after the raft broke explaining how he swam to shore but hid. Since then, the Grangerfords’ slaves have been helping him out with food. Jim tells Huck how he recovered the raft, which was not completely destroyed by the steamboat.. Huck realises Miss Sophia ran off to marry Harney Shepherdson. All the men begin packing up their guns to get her back before Harney takes her across the river including Buck. In the woods, he finds Buck and his 19 year old cousin Joe in a gunfight with the Shepherdsons - he climbs a tree for safety. Huck calls Buck who tells Huck that his father and two brothers were killed. Suddenly there is a sudden explosion of gunfire, and Huck sees Buck and Joe shot dead. Huck who feels it is all his fault cries and, after the attackers are gone, covers up the faces of the two dead bodies. Huck decides he doesn't want anything to do with these people and runs to Jim, who is glad to see that Huck isn't dead. Huck and Jim then quickly take off on the raft back along the Mississippi River. At the end Huck explains there’s no home like a raft, he says, where everything is "free and easy."
Chapter 19
Huck and Jim are in their raft as usual, when Huck describes the surroundings on the river. One morning Huck spots a canoe and swims to shore in search of berries. Two men come out of the bush who begin running towards the water. At first Huck thinks they are they’re after him or either Jim, but it turns out they’re escaping themselves. Huck then helps the criminals hide and takes them onto the raft with Jim. One of the criminals is around 70 years old and the other around 30. We learn that the criminals don't know each other and just met while running away from the law. The 30 year old man reveals that he was selling a kind of toothpaste that accidentally took the enamel off people’s teeth. The 70 year old man was in trouble for running a scamming. He ran a temperance revival meeting until it got out that he drank alcohol himself. The 30 year old young man begins to cry, revealing that he is actually royal and is the Duke of Bridgewater. Jim and Huck worship him but Huck realises the criminals are lying but goes along with it to avoid a fight. Huck tell us this is something he learned from Pap "with people like this, you just need to let them have their own way". Huck does not tell Jim that the criminals are lying.
Chapter 20
Huck lies and makes up a story to explain Jim's situation. He claims that Jim is not a runaway slave but because everyone thinks he is it’s easier for them to travel at night. The criminals look around the raft and insist because they are royal they deserve the best sleeping spots inside the wigwam. Later at night there is lightning and a storm but Huck and Jim sit outside on the raft to keep watch. Huck doesn’t mind because he likes watching the storm and ends up going to sleep. The duke and the king start planning their scams which is a Shakespearian performances. The king says he doesn't know anything about acting so the duke explains Romeo and Juliet to him. They decide that the king will play Juliet and the duke Romeo. The criminals head into town and tell Huck that they’re going to set up a way for them to travel in the daylight without worrying about Jim. Huck decides to go with them. They find that the town is deserted, when they learn that everyone is at a camp-meeting two miles away which happens to be a religious gathering. Huck and the king leave the duke at a printing-office which happens to be a part of the plan to help Jim and head to this camp-meeting. The duke shows up and is proud of himself for scamming nine bucks. He’s also prints a bill for Jim that has a $200 reward for him as a runaway slave. This way if anyone stops their raft, they can claim they've already captured him and are bringing him back to capture their reward. At night, Jim tells Huck he hopes not to meet any more dukes or kings
Chapter 21
The duke and dauphin practice the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet and the sword fight scene from Richard lll on the raft. The duke then practises reciting "To be or not to be soliloquy" from Hamlet. It turns out that he doesn't know it too well and ends up mixing it with lines from other parts of Hamlet and Macbeth but Huck thinks that the duke is talented. They all then visit a one-horse town in Arkansas , Huck explains in detail what the town is like. Huck then see's a drunk man being shot as he insults a man named Sherburn. The shooting takes place in front of the victim’s daughter which leads of a crowd gathering around the dead man and then decide to lynch Sherburn.
Chapter 22
The crowd wanting to lunch Sherburn roam through the streets towards Sherburn’s house knocking down the front fence. Sherburn emerges from his balcony with a gun which scares the crowd. Shebern then begins to speak where he talks about human nature and talks about cowards and the mentality ofan average person. Sherburn tells the crowd that no one will lynch him in the daytime. Huck then goes to the circus where a performer pretends to be drunk and forces himself into the ring and tries to ride a horse. The crowd finds this amusing but Huck feels sorry for the man who is in danger. Later at night only 12 people end up at the duke’s performance. The duke prints another handbill and advertises a performance of The King’s Cameleopard in which it states that Women and children are not permitted.
Chapter 23
The Royal Nonesuch begins and the dauphin appears on the stage wearing apart from body paint. The crowd nearly end up attacking the duke and the dauphin when they end the show. The people in the crowd feel that they have been ripped off, make sure everyone in the town gets ripped off. After the performance they tell everyone in town that the play was great. A big crowd attends the second performance. The duke who predicts this see's the crowd on the third night on the two previous nights attending to get their revenge. Huck and the duke runaway on the raft before the show starts. They count how much they have earned which adds up to $465. Huck does not see the point in telling Jim that the duke and the dauphin are fakes. Jim spends his night moaning about his wife and two children. Jim hears a thud in the distance that reminds him of the time he beat his daughter Lizabeth for not doing what he told her to do. Jim didn't realize that his daughter couldn't hear his instructions because she had scarlet fever which caused her to be dead.
Chapter 24
The duke and the dauphin work in another town causing Jim to moan because he does not want to wait as he's tied up in the boat as a runaway slave to avoid people from suspecting. The duke disguises Jim in a stage robe and blue face paint and paints a sign saying "Sick Arab but harmless when not out of his head.” The dauphin wants to make a big entrance in the next town, so Huck and the duke get on a steamboat several miles away from the town. The dauphin comes across a man who tells him about a recent local man who passed away named Peter Wilks who had recently sent for his two brothers from Sheffield, England. Peter had not seen them since they were boys. Their names were Harvey and William who is deaf and mute. Wilks had left his property in name of his brothers when he died. The dauphin persuades the man who is on his way to South America to give him details about the Wilks family. Arriving in Wilks’s hometown, the duke and the dauphin ask for the Wilks. The dauphin makes hand gestures to the duke using sign language.
Chapter 25
A crowd gathers in front of Wilks's home to watch Wilks’s 3 nieces meet the duke and the dauphin who they foolishly believe are their English uncles. Huck feels ashamed and claims he has 'never seen anything so disgusting' when the town is rambling on. The letter Wilks leaves behind gives $3,000 to his nieces. His brothers inherit $3,000 with more than double that amount in real estate. After finding Wilks’s money in the basement, where the letter had said it would be - the duke and the dauphin begin to count the money. They add $415 of their own money but they find that the money is short of what is stated in the letter itself. They decide to hand the money over to the sisters in front of the people of the town. Doctor Robinson who is an old friend of Wilk's declares that the duke and the dauphin are frauds and says that their accents ridiculous. He asks Mary Jane who is the oldest the sisters to get rid of the duke and dauphin. The chapter ends with Mary Jane handing the dauphin the $6,000.
Chapter 26
The dauphin stay's in the Wilks house. Huck eats with the youngest sister Joannaa who has a birth defect. Joanna quizzes Huck and how much he knows about England, he ends up making mistakes and forgets that he is from Sheffield and that the dauphin is a protestant minister. Joanna asks if he has made the whole story up but her sisters Mary Jane and Susan break up the conversation and tell Joanna to be kind to their guest so she apologizes. Huck then feels guilty lying to the women and decidesto get them their money back. He goes to the dauphin and duke's room and begins to search for the money and hides when they come into the room. Huck overhears them talking and learns that the duke wants to leave town tonight but the dauphin convinces him to stay until they have stolen all the family’s property. After they leave the room Huck finds the $6,000 in gold takes it to his where he is sleeping and then and then sneaks out at night.
Chapter 27
Huck hides the money in Peter Wilks’s coffin as Mary Jane enters the room. Huck begins to worry about the money in the coffin. The next day, a dog barking in the cellar disrupts the funeral. A “whack” is heard from downstairs when the undertaker whispers that the dog has caught a rat. Huck watches with the undertaker seal the coffin without looking inside. Huck panics and realizes they will never know whether the duke and the dauphin have gotten the money back. He considers writing a letter to Mary Jane after he leaves town to tell her that the money is inside the coffin and to dig it up. The dauphin states he will take the girls to England and sells the estate and slaves, sending the slave mother to the New Orleans and her two sons to Memphis. Huck reassures himself that the slave family will be reunited in a week when he exposes the duke and dauphin. When they question Huck about the money he lies and makes it out that the Wilks family slaves are to be held responsible.
Chapter 28
The chapter begins the next day where Huck finds Mary Jane crying in her bedroom about her being happy about the trip to England. Huck accidently blurts out that the family will be reunited in less than two weeks. She becomes happy and asks Huck to explain. Huck feels uncomfortable because he has little experience in telling the truth. He tells Mary Jane the truth but asks her to wait at a friend’s house until night to give him time to runaway because the Jim will also be at stake. Huck tells Mary Jane to leave without seeing her uncles. Huck leaves her a note telling her where the money is. She promises to remember him forever and to pray for him. Huck then tell us he hasn't seen since but that he thinks of her. After Mary Jane leaves the house Huck comes across Susan and Joanna and tells them that their sister has gone to see a sick friend. Later on during an auction of the family’s possessions a crowd interrupts and in the crowd is Harvey and William.
Chapter 29
Harvey Wilks and William tell everyone that they were delayed because there was problems with their luggage and his mute brother broke his arm which left them unable to communicate with each other by signs. Doctor Robinson declares the duke and the dauphin are frauds and has the crowd bring the real brothers and the duke and dauphin to a tavern to decide. The frauds fail to bring $6,000 of the Wilks inheritance. A lawyer friend asks the duke, the dauphin and the real Harvey to sign a piece of paper. When the lawyer compares the writing to the letters he has from the real Harvey the dauphin and duke are caught.. The dauphin refuses to give up and claims that the duke is playing a joke on everyone by disguising his handwriting because Harvey cant write as he his broke his arm. The crowd are confused and cant prove that the real Wilkses are who they say they are. The real Harvey says he knows of a tattoo on his brother’s chest and asks the undertaker who dressed the body to support what he is saying. But after the dauphin and Harvey each offer a different version of the tattoo’s appearance, the undertaker tells everyone that he saw no tattoo. The mob say to kill all of the 4 men but the lawyer sends them get the body and check the tattoos themselves. They then find the $6,000 in gold in the coffin. Huck takes this chance to escapes, Huck steals a canoe and makes his way to the raft where him and Jim escape. Huck is relieved but then see's the duke and the dauphin approaching them in a boat.
Chapter 30
The dauphin is angry at the fact that Huck left them after the money was found, when the dauphin nearly strangles Huck but the duke stops him. The duke and the dauphin believe that the other hid the gold in the coffin to get it later without the other knowing. They nearly come to blows but eventually make up and go to sleep. The King and the Duke get drunk and fall asleep in the wigwam. Huck tells Jim the truth about everything.
Chapter 31
The 4 travel on the raft for many days away from the scam of the duke and the dauphin. They different things in in different towns but fail. The two start to have secret discussions which makes Jim and Huck concerned who try ditch them at the first opportunity. The duke, the dauphin, and Huck go into town but the duke and dauphin get into a fight and Huck escapes. When Huck gets to the raft Jim is missing when a boy explains that a man recognized Jim as a runaway and offered $200 for Jim’s capture in New Orleans with the same handbill that the duke had printed earlier. The boy says that the man who captured Jim had to leave suddenly and sold his interest in the captured runaway for forty dollars to a farmer named Silas Phelps. Huck realizes that it was the dauphin who captured and quickly sold Jim. Huck writes to Tom Sawyer to tell Miss Watson where Jim is. Huck realizes that Miss Watson would sell Jim anyway so doesn't. Huck’s realises that if his part in the story got out, he would be ashamed of having helped a slave, a black man escape. Huck thinks realizes that this must be God’s punishment for helping Jim escape. Huck pray for forgiveness but cant. . Huck writes the letter to Miss Watson. Before he prays, he reminisces of times spent with Jim on the river and their friendship. Huck trembles. After a minute, he decides to steal Jim back. Huck goes to see Silas Phelps on the way Huck comes across the duke putting up posters for The Royal Nonesuch. When the duke questions him Huck lies about how he went around the town but found neither Jim nor the raft. The duke reveals where Jim really is but changes his story and says he sold Jim to a man forty miles away, so he tells Huck to start 3 day long trip.
Chapter 32
Huck finds Phelps’s house when some hounds almost attack Huck but a slave woman calms them down. The white mistress of the house, Sally comes out to see Huck thinking that he is her nephew named Tom. Sally questions Huck why he's been delayed for so many days. Huck pretends to be her nephew and lies again saying a cylinder head on the steamboat blew up. Sally asks whether anyone was hurt but Huck says a black person was killed. Sally is then relieved Huck is okay. Sally’s husband Silas returns but his enthusiastic greeting reveals to Huck that Sally and Silas are the aunt and uncle of none other than Tom Sawyer, Huck’s best friend. Hearing a steamboat on the river Huck goes to the docks lying that he has to get to get his luggage but instead to find Tom and tell him about the situation.
Chapter 33
Huck see's Tom’s wagon coming down the road at first Tom is shocked thinking Huck is a ghost believing that Huck was murdered. He realises Huck is actually alive and agrees to help Huck free Jim. Huck is shocked by Tom’s willingness to help him something that society would not agree with. Tom and Huck go to Phelps house, Tom lies and introduces himself as William Thompson from Ohio stopping to visit his uncle. Tom leans over and kisses his aunt in the middle of dinner and nearly slaps him because she thinks he is an impolite stranger. Tom laughs and pretends that he is his own half-brother, Sid. Tom and Huck wait for Sally and Silas to mention the runaway slave being held on their property but Jim is not mentioned. At night Huck and Tom sneak out of the house and as they walk on the road they see a mob of people running the duke and the dauphin out of town on a rail. Huck feels bad for the two but eventually he doesn't. Huck tells himself that 'a conscience is useless because it makes you feel bad no matter what you do'.
Chapter 34
Tom remembers that he saw a black man delivering food at the Phelps shed earlier and assumes Jim is held there. This impresses Huck. Huck then comes up with a plan to free Jim by stealing the key to the shed running away at night.. Tom mocks Huck's plan and tells Huck that he has a wild plan which Huck admits is better than his but might them all killed. Huck finds it hard to believe that Tom will throw away his reputation by helping Jim. Huck and Tom get Jim’s keeper to let them see Jim. When Jim recognises Huck he cries out when Tom tricks Jim’s keeper into thinking the cry was witches. Tom and Huck promise Jim that they will dig him out and begin to make preparations.
Chapter 35
Tom tells Huck that he will have to invent obstacles to Jim’s rescue. Tom says they must saw Jim’s chain off instead of just lifting it off the bed’s as this is how it’s done in the books. Tom lists other things that are important in plotting an escape including a rope ladder, moat and a shirt which Jim can keep a journal written in his own blood. They decide to dig Jim out with caseknives or large table knives.
Chapter 36
At night Tom and Huck give up digging with the knives and decide to use axes instead. The next day they gather candlesticks, spoons, and tin plates. At night they boys dig until they find Jim. Jim goes along with their plan and Tom convinces Jim’s keeper who believes witches are haunting him, that the only cure is to bake a witch pie and give it to Jim. Tom plans to put the rope ladder inside the pie.
Chapter 37
Sally realises that the shirt, candles, sheets are missing. She begins to get angry and believes the rats have stolen them. Huck and Tom secretly plug up the ratholes in the house. By removing and then replacing sheets and spoons they confuse Sally who loses track of how many she has. They put the rope into the witch pie.
Chapter 38
Tom insists Jim to scratch bearings on his coat of arms on the wall of the shed how the books say. Using pens as spoons. Tom disapproves that they are writing on a wall made of wood rather than stone. They try to steal a millstone is too heavy for them so sneak Jim out to help. Huck and Jim struggle with the millstone, Huck notices that Tom has a talent for supervising while others do the work. Tom tries to get Jim to take a rattlesnake or rat into the shack and tries to persuade Jim to grow a flower to water with his tears. Jim believes that it is unnecessary trouble but Tom replies that his ideas are providing opportunities.
Chapter 39
Tom and Huck get a variety of animals animals such as snakes, and rats which Jim accidently lets loose into the house. Jim dislikes sleeping with them because there is no space but gives him something to write about in his journal. Uncle Silas advertising Jim because he hasn't heard anything from New Orleans, where Jim supposedly ran away Tom decides to write an anonymous letter to let people know that there is going to be trouble. They plan that Huck will be the servant girl who will stick the anonymous letter under the front door and Tom being the prisoner's mother helping him escape by exchanging clothes with him. The house begins to get worried from the letters. Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas tell the two slaves to keep watch. At night, Tom sneaks over to the slaves and puts the letter in the back of his neck which warns them that a band of gangsters are planning to steal Jim. It says that he will sound like a sheep to warn them that the robbers are in the cabin. Signalling that they should run the shed and lock the robbers in. The letter states that until then they should do nothing and act like nothing is going on. They sign the letter as unknown friend.
Chapter 40
Later at night Huck sees 15 local farmers with guns and have gathered in the house. Huck goes to the shed to warn Jim and Tom, suddenly, the men attack the shed. In the dark Tom, Huck, and Jim escape through the hole they cut in the wall. Tom makes a noise as they are going over the fence getting the attention of the men who shoot at the boys and Jim as they run. The 3 make it to their canoe and set off towards the island where the raft is hidden. Tom is excited who has a bullet in the leg. Huck and Jim are concerned about Tom’s wound. Jim suggests they should get a doctor.
Chapter 41
Jim and Tom are on the island with the raft whilst Huck goes to find a doctor and sends him to Tom in the canoe, which can only hold one person. The next morning, Huck runs into Silas, who takes him home. The house is filled with farmers and their wives discussing the contents of Jim’s shed and the hole. They decide that a band of robbers with skills must have tricked the Phelpses. Sally is sad to have lost Sid and does not want to risk another boy.
Chapter 42
Silas still does not hear about Tom despite his efforts to find him. A letter then arrives from Aunt Polly (Sally's sister). Sally puts the letter aside when she see's Tom who she thinks is Sid. The boy is brought in unconscious on a mattress, followed by a crowd which Jim is in, in chains and the doctor. The local men want to hang Jim but are unwilling to risk having to compensate Jim’s master. They treat Jim roughly and chain him hand and foot inside the shed. The doctor tells the crowd how Jim has sacrificed his freedom to help Tom. .Sally stays with Tom and is glad that his condition has improved. Tom wakes up to learn that Jim is now in chains. Tom explains how Miss Watson died two months ago and that Jim should be set free. Miss Watson regretted having considered to sell Jim. Then Aunt Polly walks into the room having come back Arkansas from St. Petersburg she tells Aunt Sally that Sid is really Tom, and Tom is really Huck Finn. Aunt Polly appears after hearing about Sid's arrival in a letter from Aunt Sally. She learned that something was wrong. Aunt Polly Huck and Tom get told off for playing tricks and causing trouble.
Chapter 43
Huck asks Tom what he had planned to do once Jim had been freed when Tom explains that he was planning to repay Jim for all the trouble he caused and send him back as hero with a marching band. When Aunt Polly and the Phelpses hear about how Jim helped the doctor in helping Tom, they unchain him, feed him and treat him highly. Tom gives Jim forty dollars in return for the trouble. Tom fully recovers and Huck and Tom want to go on another adventure to the Indian territory. Huck thinks that Pap has taken all his money by now but Jim says that could not have happened. Jim finally tells Huck that the dead body which they found in the floating house during the flood was Pap. Huck is relieved. Huck plans to head out west because Aunt Sally tries to civilise him.
The book opens as we are introduced to the main protagonist Huck Finn, we learn that he is taken in by a widow, has a friend named Tom Sawyer and dislikes Moses because he is dead. 'because i take no stock in dead people.' We learn that Tom Sawyer is not a part of a good crowd as Huck asks the widow if she thinks Tom will go to the good place but replies 'not by a considerable sight'. He says he is glad about this because he wants to be together with him. He then goes upto his room and hears a sound coming from the woods which sounds like a ghost. He then hears something approaching him and hears a 'me-yow! me-yow!', and finds Tom Sawyer waiting for him.
Chapter 2
Huckleberry sneaks out of his room and meets up with Tom Sawyer where they both take some candles from Jim and leave 5 cents on the table. They then reach the hill top away from the village, where they meet Jo Harper and Ben Rogers and 2 or 3 more of the boys who were hiding in the 'old tranyard'. They then go towards these bushes and Tom makes everyone swear to keep a secret and shows them a hole behind the bushes. They then light the candles and crawl through the hole about 200 yards when they reach a cave. Tom decides to start a band of robbers called 'Tom Sawyers gang', he makes everyone take an oath and write their name in blood. Everyone agrees to this. Tom reads out a long oath which he had written. The gang activities included killing people and stealing.
"We are highwaymen. We stop stages and carriages on the rosf, with masks on and kill the people and take their watches and money". Tom says they will meet next week Sunday and kill people and steal. The boys elect Tom Sawyer as the captain and Jo Harper as second captain of the gang. The chapter closes with Huck sneaking back into his room.
Chapter 3
The chapter begins with Huckleberry explaining how he got into trouble in the morning from Ms.Watson, who then tells him to pray which will grant him with whatever he wishes for but explains that he tried it but it never worked. 'Once I got a fish line but no hooks'. He also tells us when she tried to convince him not to think about himself but always look out for other people and help others but he states that he see's no good in this. Huck then tells us about his father who he doesn't see and dislikes him because his father used to'whale at him when he was sober and could get his hands on him.' We learn that his father is supposedly dead after his corpse was found in a river and assumes it was his dad due to its ragged appearance. He realises that it is not his father because 'a drownded man don't float on his back'. He expresses his concern of seeing his dad again and feels uncomfortable. He then tells us all members quit the gang after a month of playing 'cops and robbers' having actually killed no one or stolen anything. Huck then tells us of a time when they were supposed to rob these 'A-rabs and Spaniards' but it ended up being a school picnic which they raised after chasing the children. He tell us they got nothing but jam and doughnuts. He questions Tom who then claims some enemies called magicians turned the whole thing into a Sunday school out of spite.
Chapter 4
Chapter 4 opens with readers learning that 4 months later in winter, Huck tells us he went to school most of the time and was able to read, spell and write a little. He tells us he knew his multiplication table until 'six times seven is thirty-five' He describes his hate for maths and suggests he could never go further than that 'I don't take no stock in mathematics anyway.' Huck tells the readers how he hated school at first but the more he went, the easier it became. The next morning he tries to throw salt over his left shoulder to keep away from bad luck but Miss Watson insists he is making a mess so instead put's in a good word for him. He then climbs over the fence to the front garden when he notices someone's tracks in the snow. He then bends down to take a closer look at the tracks rather than follow them and noticed there was a cross in the left boot-heel made with big nails to keep off the devil. He rushes to Judge Thatcher and tries to give him all his money in exchange for a dollar. Huck then decides to visit 'Miss Watson's nigger Jim' who happens to have a hair ball which he took out of the fourth stomach of an Ox and did magic with claiming there was a spirit in the side of it and knew everything. Jim insists the hair-ball does not talk without money sometimes, Huck then hands him a fake quarter and the hair-ball becomes willing to talk. The hairball tell's him that his father has two angels one white and one black, one good and one bad but insists Huck is safe for now. It also tells him he will marry a poor woman and then a rich woman and should stay clear of water which is where he will die. Later that night Huck goes back to his room to find that his dad is waiting for him.
Chapter 5
Huck tells begins to tell us how he used to be scared of his father but now he did not bother about him. 'We learn that his father is fifty and looked like it. He describes his father - 'his hair was long and tangled and greasy, and hung down, and you could see his eyes shining through like he was behind vines. It was all black, no gray ; so was his long, mixed-up whiskers. There warn't no colour in his face, where his face showed; it was white; not like another man's white, but a white to make a body sick, a white to make a body's flesh crawl - a tree-toad white, a fish-belly white.' Huck notices that the window was up, meaning his father climbed in through the window from the shed, he stares intensely at Huck. His father then mocks his clothing calling his clothes 'starchy', Huck replies back sarcasticly and his father then answers back. His father then tries to put Huck down by mocking that he had an education, can read and write and threatens him - 'I'll take you down a peg before I get done with you'. His father forces him to quit school, claiming no one in his family could read or write before they died meaning he is not an exception. His father puts him down constantly saying 'I never seen such a son' after Huck reads a passage of a book to his father, his father becomes agitated and throws the book and tears his picture which he was rewarded with. He also compares his living to Huck's claiming he sleeps with hogs in the tanyard whereas Huck sleeps with 'A bed, and bed-clothes; and a look'n-glass; and a piece of carpet on the floor - and your own father got to sleep with the hogs in the tanyard'. His father demands Huck to give him the money he found tomorrow but Huck insists he does not have the money he tells his father he has a dollar which he wants to keep but takes it off him to buy whisky with, claiming he hasn't drunk all day. The next day his father shows up drunk at Judge Thatcher's and forces him to give the money but Judge Thatcher refuses. His father then swears he will make the law force him. The judge and widow went to court to take Huck away from his father allowing one of them to be his guardian but the Judge was new The judge claims that the court must not interfere in family matters. His father gets arrested repeatedly and the Judge decides to reform him by taking him into his home, giving him new clothes and a room but his father every night escaped through the window and sold his things. He also breaks his arm in 2 places after rolling of the porch. The judge comes to a conclusion that the only way to reform him is with a shotgun because he did not know any other way.
Chapter 6
Huck tells us how his father continued to beat him whenever he found him going to school and went to Judge Thatcher in the courts to make him give up the money. Huck tells us how he doesn't really want to go to school but would go just to annoy his dad. We learn that the law trial barely proceeded and was very slow. Hucks father continues to get drunk and one day in spring ends kidnapps Huck taking him into the woods, to a cabin which no one would find. He keeps Huck with him all the time, making it impossible for him to escape, keeping the key under his head at night. The widow even tried sending a man to try get Huck back but his father scares him with his gun. Huck eventually adapts to his new life and enjoys the laziness and not having to do any work, and changes his mind about going back. Huck begins to change his mind again after his father continuously goes out, one day locking him in for 3 days. Huck assumes his dad has drowned and isn't going to come back so tries to leave somehow, struggling to escape. 'There warn't a window to it big enought for a dog to get through. I couldn't get up the chimbly, it was too narrow'. Huck manages to find a saw and and starts cutting a hole and when he finishes, he hears his fathers gun go off and see's his father coming back. His father in his normal mood starts challenging the widow again, stating how he would love to see her try to take Huck. His father then threatens him again 'If they tried to come any such game on him, he knowed of a place six or seven mile off, to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn't find me. This makes Huck feel uneasy so he decides to runaway before his father reaches that stage far away across the country so neither his father or the widow can find him. Hucks father gets drunk but does not fall asleep and Huck evetually gets tired of waiting and falls asleep himself. His father then wakes up after being drunk and begins to chase Huck around the cabin with a clasp-knife calling him the 'Angel of death'. His father evtually grabs him but Huck slips out of his jacket and escapes. At this point his father becomes tired and says he will kill him after he gets up. Huck takes this chance to take the gun and points it toward his sleeping father and waits for him to wake up.
Chapter 7
Not having a clue of what happened on earlier, Huck's father wakes up and demands to know why Huck is holding a gun. Huck then makes up a lie and claims someone tried to get in. His father then sends Huck to see if any fish have been caught on the lines. Huck then spots a canoe. 13ft long and paddles it along to shore and hides it in the woods later for when he escapes. Huck then decides to take supplies from the house and takes a sack of corn, bacon, coffee, sugar and ammunition. He also takes coffee pots and fish lines. He then hides the hole that he made and then spots a wild pig which he shoots. Huck breaks the door with an axe and brings the pig in and 'hacked into his throat with the axe, and laid him down on the ground to bleed'. He then takes a sack and puts lots of big rocks inside. Huck makes the cabin to look as if its been robbed. Huck escapes to the canoe and waits for the moon to rise but falls asleep and wakes up to see his father rowing by in the distance and as he approaches, he passes Huck.. Huck then sets out to go down the river. Later Huck arrives at Jackson's island and decides to take a nap.
Chapter 8
The morning after, Huck hears a deep sound of 'boom' and notices a ferry passing Jackson Island, as the ferry approaches Huck see's everyone in board from Judge Thatcher, Pap, Bessie Thatcher, Jo Harper, Tom Sawyer, his aunt Poly, Sid, Mary '7 plenty more. Huck hears them talking about the murder. 'Look sharp, now; the current sets in the closest here, and maybe he's washed ashore and got tangled amongst the brush at the water's edge.' The ferry then lets off a canon which almost makes Huck deaf. The ferry then moves on after letting off canons but eventually stops at home in town. Huck then decides no on else will come for him so sets up a camp. Huck after setting up his camp begins to feel lonely 'When it was dark I set by myself by my camp fire smoking, and feeling pretty satisfied; but by and by it got sort of lonesome'. Huck stays like this for 3 days and night. The next day he decides to go exploring but comes across a smoking camp-fire, Huck quickly sneaks back to his camp and packs everything in the canoe and climbs up the tree, staying there for 2-3 hours. After deciding he couldn't stay up there forever he comes down from the tree. Huck tries to go on as normal but cant sleep without thinking that someone will have him by the neck when he wakes up. Huck then decides to go find out who is on the Island. Huck gets out his gun, and watches closely noticing a man lying down with a blanket over his face. When the man stretches, Huck suddenly notices it is Jim. Huck confronts Jim who is scared by Huck's sudden presence and think's it is a ghost, pleading for Huck not to kill him. Huck then explains how he planned his escape, Huck questions Jim's presence on Jackson Island where Jim reveals that despite saying she wont, he overhears Miss Watson discussing to sell him for $800 and upon hearing this escapes. Huck and Jim talk about their money and superstitions about good and bad luck.
Chapter 9
Huck and Jim decide to make a hiding place after their previous encounters on the Island so they discover a cave in which they settle down in. Jim predicts that there will be a storm and heavy rain, 'He said them little birds had said it was going to rain'. As Jim predicts they are hit with a big storm 'Directly it begun to rain, and it rained like all fury too'. The river raises for 10-12 days till the water was over the banks. One night Jim & Huck discover a two-story house on the west side. They peer in through the window to find something laying on the floor which turns out to be a man. Jim calls out to the man but he does not budge when they discover that the naked and dead man to be shot in the back. Huck & Finn grab all the clothing and stock they can and stash it in the canoe. They set off a quarter of a mile below the Island, as it is broad daylight Huck tells Jim to lie down with a quilt over his face in the canoe, as his black complexion can easily been seen from miles away. Huck paddles over to the Illinois Shore and then make it back home to the Island safe.
Chapter 10
Huck continues to think about the dead man but Jim refuses to discuss it as he finds that it is bad luck to talk about a dead person who has not been buried as he/she will haunt you. Jim explains to Huck that snake-skin is bad luck, "Now you think it's back luck ; but what did you say when I fetched in the snake-skin that I found on top of the ridge day before yesterday? you said it was the worst bad luck to touch a snake-skin with my hands!' refusing to believe this Huck plays a prank on Jim, putting a dead rattle snake near his feet waiting for him to wake up. As Jim wakes up he finds the friend of the dead snake near him and bites him on the heel of his foot. Jim tells Huck to cut off the neck of the snake, throw it away, skin the body & roast a piece of it. Jim makes Huck cut off the rattles and ties them around his wrist.s Huck does as he says not wanting Jim to know it was his fault. Jim's foot and leg swells up remaining like this for 4 days. After he recovers, Huck decides to slip over the river and find out what is going on. Huck shortens the calico gown and dresses up like a girl. Huck starts up the Illinois shore, across to the town where the ferry landed. Huck spots a light burning in a shanty in which no one had lived in for a long time. Huck peeps through the window to find a 40 year old woman knitting, Huck does not recognise her and assumes she is new in town so takes this opportunity to get some information. The chapter ends with Huck knocking at the door.
Chapter 11
The chapter begins with the Woman inviting Huck in, and asks him what his name is, Huck lying replies back with 'Sarah William's'. The woman questions Huck, asking where is from. Huck lies and says that he is from Hookerville and has walked 7 miles and was so hungry he had to stop at a farm to eat. He lies that his mother is sick, the woman reveals all that has been going on saying Tom Sawyer found six thousand dollars and Pap coming into town, telling everyone Huck was murdered. Huck learns that there is a search for both Old Finn & Jim with a reward of $300 for Jim and $200 for Old Finn. The woman stares suspiciously at Huck, 'she was looking at me pretty curious, and smiling a little'. The woman asks Huck what his name again, with Huck mistakenly replying back with 'Mary Williams'. The woman questions Huck again stating 'Honey, I thought you said it was Sarah when you first come in?'. The lady confirms her suspicion as she confronts Huck 'Come now, what's your real name', 'Is it Bill, Tom or Bob?'. The woman assures Huck that she will not hurt him as he begins to panic. She then figures he is a runaway apprentice and claims she wont turn him in to authorities. Huck going along confirms this and says he is an apprentice working for a horrible farmer. She again asks a series of questions about working on a farm, Huck passing the test leaves quickly back to the cave, waking Jim up and informing him that people are after him and they must leave. They both set out on the river on a raft.
Chapter 12
Jim and Huck quickly leave the island and take their raft along the river, with Missouri on one side and Illinois on the other. They travel secretly during the night, and in the day they cover it with branches so that no one will see when passing by. Huck lands at a town to buy food or steal a chicken when he remembers his father who told him that you might as well steal a chicken whenever you can, because if you don’t want it yourself, you can give it away. Huck claims that stealing is actually just borrowings if you intended to give it back. Jim then suggests they should pick three things so they won’t steal any more, and everything else will be fine, re-assuring themselves. Huck and Jim then comes across a wrecked steamship in a storm. At first Jim is hesitant to check out the boat but then they both still go with Huck claiming that if Tom Sawyer was here he would not be scared. Huck climbs onto the boat and overhears three robbers, two of them which threaten to kill the third man. On the boat is Jake Packard a man with the gun, he tries to convince his friend to kill the third man who is named Jim Turner. We learnt that Jake is afraid Jim will "turn state’s evidence. Jake then comes up with an alternative plan "we'll rustle around and gether up whatever pickins we overlooked in the staterooms, and shove for shore and hide the truck. He'll be drownded and won't have nobody to blame for but his own self" to steal all they can find on the boat and wait for Jim to eventually drown. As Huck tries to escape he gets trapped but finds his way out returning to Jim and telling him to quickly get a sheriff. The Chapter ends with the Raft being broken and Jim and Huck being boat less.
Chapter 13
Jim and Huck make their way down to the end of the ship and find the robbers’ skiff. As the robbers approach, they hide in the dark and watch Jake and Bill load up with the stolen goods. When the two robbers go back for more, Huck and Jim jump into the skiff and start to make their way down the river, trying to find their own raft. Huck begins to have a moral crisis about leaving the man to die on the sinking steamship and feels bad so he decides that as soon as they see lights on the shore, they’ll stop and send someone back to the ship to help save the man. Eventually they catch up to their raft, Huck leaves Jim with the raft heads for shore. He soon comes across a ferry near little town and greets the watchman. Huck then lies and breaks down in tears and pretends that his family is stuck on the steamship. "I give his shoulders two or three little shoves, and begun to cry". The watchman offers to help "Hello what's up? don't cry, bub what's that matter?" but does not know who is going to pay for the trouble it will take to go over and rescue Huck's family. Huck pretends that one of the women stuck on the ferry is the niece of the richest man in town. The watchman takes off and Huck knows he leave but stays to make sure the man is okay. Huck then feels that he should congratulate himself for being good and wishes that the Widow had seen all that he had done. After the wrecked boat comes towards him on the river and looks as though no one survived. "Here comes the wreck, dim and dusky sliding along down!". "I hollered a little but there wasn't any answer; all dead still."
Chapter 14
The Chapter begins with Huck and Jim looking at all they have stolen they got from the robbers boat. Huck gets excited thinking about all the journeys and adventures they have been on but Jim feels differently as he’d rather not have any more near-death experiences. As part of the stuff they got from the steamship they have a lot of books. Huck reads some of them to Jim and then gets into a conversation about dukes and kings. He tells Jim about the circumstances surrounding these men. Jim is shocked because he’s never heard of kings before except for Solomon, from the Bible. Jim is sceptical that kings can get all the riches they want just by sitting around all day. Huck confirms that this is the case. Jim says that if Solomon had a thousand wives, he wasn't actually that smart after all, because he’d have to listen to the women blabbing all the time. We then see Huck remembering what the Widow taught him from the Bible. He tries to explain Solomon and his story to Jim. Jim misunderstands and thinks Solomon is stupid for wanting to cut a child in half, because half a child isn't good to anybody.They then begin to talk about language as Huck explains that a Frenchman doesn't speak the same way they do. Jim thinks of this as ridiculous claiming 'All cats talk the same. All dogs talk the same. Why shouldn't all men talk the same?'
Chapter 15
Huck and Jim head to Cairo which is at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comes in. They both hope to sell the raft and take a steamboat to Ohio which is a free state. They figure it will take about three more days to get there. There turns out of be heavy fog when suddenly Huck goes ahead in the canoe and gets separated from Jim and the raft. Jim tries to find to Huck, but in the fog and confusion he can’t find his way back. so he panics for a bit and ends up going to sleep. The next day the fog disappears when Huck finds Jim, who has also been sleeping. He lies down on the raft and wakes Jim, pretending that he’s been there asleep the whole night and that the fog incident was all a dream. "Hello Jim have i been asleep? Jim then notices the leaves on the raft, and realizes that it was not a dream. Huck is still in stitches, but Jim is genuinely hurt. He says he thought Huck had died in the fog and was just miserable over the whole thing. Huck realizes his joke mean and decides to apologize, which he finds difficult to do because Jim is black. Still Huck apologises to Jim.
Chapter 16
Huck and Jim continue on their way to Cairo but realise that how will they know when they get there once they've arrived. Huck paddles ashore, and lies some lies to find out how far they are from Cairo. Huck has a moral crisis because he feels guilty for stealing Miss Watson's slave because all she ever did was teach him about religion and manners and he’s repaying her by stealing her property. On the other hand he feels bad for Jim who keeps reminding and thanking Huck for helping him, making Huck feel even more guilty and confused. Jim decides he’ll save up his money until he has enough to go back south and buy his wife and his two children from the farms around Miss Watson’s. If that doesn't work, he says, he’ll just steal them. This irritates Huck even more when they spots lights at the shore and paddles out in the canoe he changes his mind again about turning Jim in. Jim tells Huck how he has been such a good friend and how he’ll always be grateful. They both come across these men on the raft who are looking for runaway slaves themselves and want to inspect the raft that Huck has left behind. Huck lies and pretends Pap is inside with the small-pox and is contagious. Huck tricks the men who then take off give Huck two twenty-dollar gold pieces to help. Jim and Huck eventually realise that they cant figure out where Cairo is and suddenly realise they most likely passed it in the fog. They change their plan and decide to sell their raft as soon as possible and take a steamboat up to the north. Huck and Jim hide their stuff and go to sleep in the thicket, but when they come back, the canoe is gone. Jim believe this is all because of the dead rattlesnake skin. Soon after large steamboat comes towards them and smashes through their raft - Jim and Huck dive in the water separate ways and get split up. Huck swims to shore and ends up being attacked by a pack of dogs.
Chapter 17
While Huck is questioned by someone in a nearby house asking him who he is. Huck lies and says his name is George Jackson. The man questions Huck whether he is associated with the Sheperdsons, Huck refuses and manages to convince the man who lets him into the house. Huck after entering has men pointing their guns directly at him. The man introduces himself as Saul, and his daughter Rachel his wife, Buck who is Huck’s age, and Betsy their black slave. Buck takes Huck upstairs to get him some dry clothes. They then sit down to dinner where Huck eats together with the family and lies to them about his family in Arkansas. The next morning Huck forgets what the name was which he made up so he challenges Buck, accusing him that he can't spell who then spells his name. The girl in the picture named Emmeline Grangerford, kept a scrapbook with poems, Huck feels bad that she wrote poems but no one wrote one for her when she died. He then tries to write a poem.
Chapter 18
When the boys are outside walking one day, Buck tells Huck to jump into the bushes quickly as a man on horse approaches. The man happens to be Harney Shepherdson, and Buck tries to shoot him with his gun from his hiding place in the bushes. He misses and they run home. Huck questions Buck and why they tried to shoot the man, Buck explains the whole family feud to Huck and how it started 30 years ago. Buck tells Huck that his cousin who was 14 was shot to death by a Shepherdson so in return they killed the Sheperdson. After going to Church, Miss Sophia takes Huck aside and asks for a favour which is that she left her prayer book at church, and asks him to bring it back. Huck accepts but he knows something is going on - He looks through the book and finds a note that says half-past two. When Sophia gets the book and the note, she’s seems excited, which she tries to cover up by telling Huck the note was just her bookmark. The slave who has been serving Huck asks him to come down to the swamp where he finds Jim. He then explains what happened after they were separated after the raft broke explaining how he swam to shore but hid. Since then, the Grangerfords’ slaves have been helping him out with food. Jim tells Huck how he recovered the raft, which was not completely destroyed by the steamboat.. Huck realises Miss Sophia ran off to marry Harney Shepherdson. All the men begin packing up their guns to get her back before Harney takes her across the river including Buck. In the woods, he finds Buck and his 19 year old cousin Joe in a gunfight with the Shepherdsons - he climbs a tree for safety. Huck calls Buck who tells Huck that his father and two brothers were killed. Suddenly there is a sudden explosion of gunfire, and Huck sees Buck and Joe shot dead. Huck who feels it is all his fault cries and, after the attackers are gone, covers up the faces of the two dead bodies. Huck decides he doesn't want anything to do with these people and runs to Jim, who is glad to see that Huck isn't dead. Huck and Jim then quickly take off on the raft back along the Mississippi River. At the end Huck explains there’s no home like a raft, he says, where everything is "free and easy."
Chapter 19
Huck and Jim are in their raft as usual, when Huck describes the surroundings on the river. One morning Huck spots a canoe and swims to shore in search of berries. Two men come out of the bush who begin running towards the water. At first Huck thinks they are they’re after him or either Jim, but it turns out they’re escaping themselves. Huck then helps the criminals hide and takes them onto the raft with Jim. One of the criminals is around 70 years old and the other around 30. We learn that the criminals don't know each other and just met while running away from the law. The 30 year old man reveals that he was selling a kind of toothpaste that accidentally took the enamel off people’s teeth. The 70 year old man was in trouble for running a scamming. He ran a temperance revival meeting until it got out that he drank alcohol himself. The 30 year old young man begins to cry, revealing that he is actually royal and is the Duke of Bridgewater. Jim and Huck worship him but Huck realises the criminals are lying but goes along with it to avoid a fight. Huck tell us this is something he learned from Pap "with people like this, you just need to let them have their own way". Huck does not tell Jim that the criminals are lying.
Chapter 20
Huck lies and makes up a story to explain Jim's situation. He claims that Jim is not a runaway slave but because everyone thinks he is it’s easier for them to travel at night. The criminals look around the raft and insist because they are royal they deserve the best sleeping spots inside the wigwam. Later at night there is lightning and a storm but Huck and Jim sit outside on the raft to keep watch. Huck doesn’t mind because he likes watching the storm and ends up going to sleep. The duke and the king start planning their scams which is a Shakespearian performances. The king says he doesn't know anything about acting so the duke explains Romeo and Juliet to him. They decide that the king will play Juliet and the duke Romeo. The criminals head into town and tell Huck that they’re going to set up a way for them to travel in the daylight without worrying about Jim. Huck decides to go with them. They find that the town is deserted, when they learn that everyone is at a camp-meeting two miles away which happens to be a religious gathering. Huck and the king leave the duke at a printing-office which happens to be a part of the plan to help Jim and head to this camp-meeting. The duke shows up and is proud of himself for scamming nine bucks. He’s also prints a bill for Jim that has a $200 reward for him as a runaway slave. This way if anyone stops their raft, they can claim they've already captured him and are bringing him back to capture their reward. At night, Jim tells Huck he hopes not to meet any more dukes or kings
Chapter 21
The duke and dauphin practice the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet and the sword fight scene from Richard lll on the raft. The duke then practises reciting "To be or not to be soliloquy" from Hamlet. It turns out that he doesn't know it too well and ends up mixing it with lines from other parts of Hamlet and Macbeth but Huck thinks that the duke is talented. They all then visit a one-horse town in Arkansas , Huck explains in detail what the town is like. Huck then see's a drunk man being shot as he insults a man named Sherburn. The shooting takes place in front of the victim’s daughter which leads of a crowd gathering around the dead man and then decide to lynch Sherburn.
Chapter 22
The crowd wanting to lunch Sherburn roam through the streets towards Sherburn’s house knocking down the front fence. Sherburn emerges from his balcony with a gun which scares the crowd. Shebern then begins to speak where he talks about human nature and talks about cowards and the mentality ofan average person. Sherburn tells the crowd that no one will lynch him in the daytime. Huck then goes to the circus where a performer pretends to be drunk and forces himself into the ring and tries to ride a horse. The crowd finds this amusing but Huck feels sorry for the man who is in danger. Later at night only 12 people end up at the duke’s performance. The duke prints another handbill and advertises a performance of The King’s Cameleopard in which it states that Women and children are not permitted.
Chapter 23
The Royal Nonesuch begins and the dauphin appears on the stage wearing apart from body paint. The crowd nearly end up attacking the duke and the dauphin when they end the show. The people in the crowd feel that they have been ripped off, make sure everyone in the town gets ripped off. After the performance they tell everyone in town that the play was great. A big crowd attends the second performance. The duke who predicts this see's the crowd on the third night on the two previous nights attending to get their revenge. Huck and the duke runaway on the raft before the show starts. They count how much they have earned which adds up to $465. Huck does not see the point in telling Jim that the duke and the dauphin are fakes. Jim spends his night moaning about his wife and two children. Jim hears a thud in the distance that reminds him of the time he beat his daughter Lizabeth for not doing what he told her to do. Jim didn't realize that his daughter couldn't hear his instructions because she had scarlet fever which caused her to be dead.
Chapter 24
The duke and the dauphin work in another town causing Jim to moan because he does not want to wait as he's tied up in the boat as a runaway slave to avoid people from suspecting. The duke disguises Jim in a stage robe and blue face paint and paints a sign saying "Sick Arab but harmless when not out of his head.” The dauphin wants to make a big entrance in the next town, so Huck and the duke get on a steamboat several miles away from the town. The dauphin comes across a man who tells him about a recent local man who passed away named Peter Wilks who had recently sent for his two brothers from Sheffield, England. Peter had not seen them since they were boys. Their names were Harvey and William who is deaf and mute. Wilks had left his property in name of his brothers when he died. The dauphin persuades the man who is on his way to South America to give him details about the Wilks family. Arriving in Wilks’s hometown, the duke and the dauphin ask for the Wilks. The dauphin makes hand gestures to the duke using sign language.
Chapter 25
A crowd gathers in front of Wilks's home to watch Wilks’s 3 nieces meet the duke and the dauphin who they foolishly believe are their English uncles. Huck feels ashamed and claims he has 'never seen anything so disgusting' when the town is rambling on. The letter Wilks leaves behind gives $3,000 to his nieces. His brothers inherit $3,000 with more than double that amount in real estate. After finding Wilks’s money in the basement, where the letter had said it would be - the duke and the dauphin begin to count the money. They add $415 of their own money but they find that the money is short of what is stated in the letter itself. They decide to hand the money over to the sisters in front of the people of the town. Doctor Robinson who is an old friend of Wilk's declares that the duke and the dauphin are frauds and says that their accents ridiculous. He asks Mary Jane who is the oldest the sisters to get rid of the duke and dauphin. The chapter ends with Mary Jane handing the dauphin the $6,000.
Chapter 26
The dauphin stay's in the Wilks house. Huck eats with the youngest sister Joannaa who has a birth defect. Joanna quizzes Huck and how much he knows about England, he ends up making mistakes and forgets that he is from Sheffield and that the dauphin is a protestant minister. Joanna asks if he has made the whole story up but her sisters Mary Jane and Susan break up the conversation and tell Joanna to be kind to their guest so she apologizes. Huck then feels guilty lying to the women and decidesto get them their money back. He goes to the dauphin and duke's room and begins to search for the money and hides when they come into the room. Huck overhears them talking and learns that the duke wants to leave town tonight but the dauphin convinces him to stay until they have stolen all the family’s property. After they leave the room Huck finds the $6,000 in gold takes it to his where he is sleeping and then and then sneaks out at night.
Chapter 27
Huck hides the money in Peter Wilks’s coffin as Mary Jane enters the room. Huck begins to worry about the money in the coffin. The next day, a dog barking in the cellar disrupts the funeral. A “whack” is heard from downstairs when the undertaker whispers that the dog has caught a rat. Huck watches with the undertaker seal the coffin without looking inside. Huck panics and realizes they will never know whether the duke and the dauphin have gotten the money back. He considers writing a letter to Mary Jane after he leaves town to tell her that the money is inside the coffin and to dig it up. The dauphin states he will take the girls to England and sells the estate and slaves, sending the slave mother to the New Orleans and her two sons to Memphis. Huck reassures himself that the slave family will be reunited in a week when he exposes the duke and dauphin. When they question Huck about the money he lies and makes it out that the Wilks family slaves are to be held responsible.
Chapter 28
The chapter begins the next day where Huck finds Mary Jane crying in her bedroom about her being happy about the trip to England. Huck accidently blurts out that the family will be reunited in less than two weeks. She becomes happy and asks Huck to explain. Huck feels uncomfortable because he has little experience in telling the truth. He tells Mary Jane the truth but asks her to wait at a friend’s house until night to give him time to runaway because the Jim will also be at stake. Huck tells Mary Jane to leave without seeing her uncles. Huck leaves her a note telling her where the money is. She promises to remember him forever and to pray for him. Huck then tell us he hasn't seen since but that he thinks of her. After Mary Jane leaves the house Huck comes across Susan and Joanna and tells them that their sister has gone to see a sick friend. Later on during an auction of the family’s possessions a crowd interrupts and in the crowd is Harvey and William.
Chapter 29
Harvey Wilks and William tell everyone that they were delayed because there was problems with their luggage and his mute brother broke his arm which left them unable to communicate with each other by signs. Doctor Robinson declares the duke and the dauphin are frauds and has the crowd bring the real brothers and the duke and dauphin to a tavern to decide. The frauds fail to bring $6,000 of the Wilks inheritance. A lawyer friend asks the duke, the dauphin and the real Harvey to sign a piece of paper. When the lawyer compares the writing to the letters he has from the real Harvey the dauphin and duke are caught.. The dauphin refuses to give up and claims that the duke is playing a joke on everyone by disguising his handwriting because Harvey cant write as he his broke his arm. The crowd are confused and cant prove that the real Wilkses are who they say they are. The real Harvey says he knows of a tattoo on his brother’s chest and asks the undertaker who dressed the body to support what he is saying. But after the dauphin and Harvey each offer a different version of the tattoo’s appearance, the undertaker tells everyone that he saw no tattoo. The mob say to kill all of the 4 men but the lawyer sends them get the body and check the tattoos themselves. They then find the $6,000 in gold in the coffin. Huck takes this chance to escapes, Huck steals a canoe and makes his way to the raft where him and Jim escape. Huck is relieved but then see's the duke and the dauphin approaching them in a boat.
Chapter 30
The dauphin is angry at the fact that Huck left them after the money was found, when the dauphin nearly strangles Huck but the duke stops him. The duke and the dauphin believe that the other hid the gold in the coffin to get it later without the other knowing. They nearly come to blows but eventually make up and go to sleep. The King and the Duke get drunk and fall asleep in the wigwam. Huck tells Jim the truth about everything.
Chapter 31
The 4 travel on the raft for many days away from the scam of the duke and the dauphin. They different things in in different towns but fail. The two start to have secret discussions which makes Jim and Huck concerned who try ditch them at the first opportunity. The duke, the dauphin, and Huck go into town but the duke and dauphin get into a fight and Huck escapes. When Huck gets to the raft Jim is missing when a boy explains that a man recognized Jim as a runaway and offered $200 for Jim’s capture in New Orleans with the same handbill that the duke had printed earlier. The boy says that the man who captured Jim had to leave suddenly and sold his interest in the captured runaway for forty dollars to a farmer named Silas Phelps. Huck realizes that it was the dauphin who captured and quickly sold Jim. Huck writes to Tom Sawyer to tell Miss Watson where Jim is. Huck realizes that Miss Watson would sell Jim anyway so doesn't. Huck’s realises that if his part in the story got out, he would be ashamed of having helped a slave, a black man escape. Huck thinks realizes that this must be God’s punishment for helping Jim escape. Huck pray for forgiveness but cant. . Huck writes the letter to Miss Watson. Before he prays, he reminisces of times spent with Jim on the river and their friendship. Huck trembles. After a minute, he decides to steal Jim back. Huck goes to see Silas Phelps on the way Huck comes across the duke putting up posters for The Royal Nonesuch. When the duke questions him Huck lies about how he went around the town but found neither Jim nor the raft. The duke reveals where Jim really is but changes his story and says he sold Jim to a man forty miles away, so he tells Huck to start 3 day long trip.
Chapter 32
Huck finds Phelps’s house when some hounds almost attack Huck but a slave woman calms them down. The white mistress of the house, Sally comes out to see Huck thinking that he is her nephew named Tom. Sally questions Huck why he's been delayed for so many days. Huck pretends to be her nephew and lies again saying a cylinder head on the steamboat blew up. Sally asks whether anyone was hurt but Huck says a black person was killed. Sally is then relieved Huck is okay. Sally’s husband Silas returns but his enthusiastic greeting reveals to Huck that Sally and Silas are the aunt and uncle of none other than Tom Sawyer, Huck’s best friend. Hearing a steamboat on the river Huck goes to the docks lying that he has to get to get his luggage but instead to find Tom and tell him about the situation.
Chapter 33
Huck see's Tom’s wagon coming down the road at first Tom is shocked thinking Huck is a ghost believing that Huck was murdered. He realises Huck is actually alive and agrees to help Huck free Jim. Huck is shocked by Tom’s willingness to help him something that society would not agree with. Tom and Huck go to Phelps house, Tom lies and introduces himself as William Thompson from Ohio stopping to visit his uncle. Tom leans over and kisses his aunt in the middle of dinner and nearly slaps him because she thinks he is an impolite stranger. Tom laughs and pretends that he is his own half-brother, Sid. Tom and Huck wait for Sally and Silas to mention the runaway slave being held on their property but Jim is not mentioned. At night Huck and Tom sneak out of the house and as they walk on the road they see a mob of people running the duke and the dauphin out of town on a rail. Huck feels bad for the two but eventually he doesn't. Huck tells himself that 'a conscience is useless because it makes you feel bad no matter what you do'.
Chapter 34
Tom remembers that he saw a black man delivering food at the Phelps shed earlier and assumes Jim is held there. This impresses Huck. Huck then comes up with a plan to free Jim by stealing the key to the shed running away at night.. Tom mocks Huck's plan and tells Huck that he has a wild plan which Huck admits is better than his but might them all killed. Huck finds it hard to believe that Tom will throw away his reputation by helping Jim. Huck and Tom get Jim’s keeper to let them see Jim. When Jim recognises Huck he cries out when Tom tricks Jim’s keeper into thinking the cry was witches. Tom and Huck promise Jim that they will dig him out and begin to make preparations.
Chapter 35
Tom tells Huck that he will have to invent obstacles to Jim’s rescue. Tom says they must saw Jim’s chain off instead of just lifting it off the bed’s as this is how it’s done in the books. Tom lists other things that are important in plotting an escape including a rope ladder, moat and a shirt which Jim can keep a journal written in his own blood. They decide to dig Jim out with caseknives or large table knives.
Chapter 36
At night Tom and Huck give up digging with the knives and decide to use axes instead. The next day they gather candlesticks, spoons, and tin plates. At night they boys dig until they find Jim. Jim goes along with their plan and Tom convinces Jim’s keeper who believes witches are haunting him, that the only cure is to bake a witch pie and give it to Jim. Tom plans to put the rope ladder inside the pie.
Chapter 37
Sally realises that the shirt, candles, sheets are missing. She begins to get angry and believes the rats have stolen them. Huck and Tom secretly plug up the ratholes in the house. By removing and then replacing sheets and spoons they confuse Sally who loses track of how many she has. They put the rope into the witch pie.
Chapter 38
Tom insists Jim to scratch bearings on his coat of arms on the wall of the shed how the books say. Using pens as spoons. Tom disapproves that they are writing on a wall made of wood rather than stone. They try to steal a millstone is too heavy for them so sneak Jim out to help. Huck and Jim struggle with the millstone, Huck notices that Tom has a talent for supervising while others do the work. Tom tries to get Jim to take a rattlesnake or rat into the shack and tries to persuade Jim to grow a flower to water with his tears. Jim believes that it is unnecessary trouble but Tom replies that his ideas are providing opportunities.
Chapter 39
Tom and Huck get a variety of animals animals such as snakes, and rats which Jim accidently lets loose into the house. Jim dislikes sleeping with them because there is no space but gives him something to write about in his journal. Uncle Silas advertising Jim because he hasn't heard anything from New Orleans, where Jim supposedly ran away Tom decides to write an anonymous letter to let people know that there is going to be trouble. They plan that Huck will be the servant girl who will stick the anonymous letter under the front door and Tom being the prisoner's mother helping him escape by exchanging clothes with him. The house begins to get worried from the letters. Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas tell the two slaves to keep watch. At night, Tom sneaks over to the slaves and puts the letter in the back of his neck which warns them that a band of gangsters are planning to steal Jim. It says that he will sound like a sheep to warn them that the robbers are in the cabin. Signalling that they should run the shed and lock the robbers in. The letter states that until then they should do nothing and act like nothing is going on. They sign the letter as unknown friend.
Chapter 40
Later at night Huck sees 15 local farmers with guns and have gathered in the house. Huck goes to the shed to warn Jim and Tom, suddenly, the men attack the shed. In the dark Tom, Huck, and Jim escape through the hole they cut in the wall. Tom makes a noise as they are going over the fence getting the attention of the men who shoot at the boys and Jim as they run. The 3 make it to their canoe and set off towards the island where the raft is hidden. Tom is excited who has a bullet in the leg. Huck and Jim are concerned about Tom’s wound. Jim suggests they should get a doctor.
Chapter 41
Jim and Tom are on the island with the raft whilst Huck goes to find a doctor and sends him to Tom in the canoe, which can only hold one person. The next morning, Huck runs into Silas, who takes him home. The house is filled with farmers and their wives discussing the contents of Jim’s shed and the hole. They decide that a band of robbers with skills must have tricked the Phelpses. Sally is sad to have lost Sid and does not want to risk another boy.
Chapter 42
Silas still does not hear about Tom despite his efforts to find him. A letter then arrives from Aunt Polly (Sally's sister). Sally puts the letter aside when she see's Tom who she thinks is Sid. The boy is brought in unconscious on a mattress, followed by a crowd which Jim is in, in chains and the doctor. The local men want to hang Jim but are unwilling to risk having to compensate Jim’s master. They treat Jim roughly and chain him hand and foot inside the shed. The doctor tells the crowd how Jim has sacrificed his freedom to help Tom. .Sally stays with Tom and is glad that his condition has improved. Tom wakes up to learn that Jim is now in chains. Tom explains how Miss Watson died two months ago and that Jim should be set free. Miss Watson regretted having considered to sell Jim. Then Aunt Polly walks into the room having come back Arkansas from St. Petersburg she tells Aunt Sally that Sid is really Tom, and Tom is really Huck Finn. Aunt Polly appears after hearing about Sid's arrival in a letter from Aunt Sally. She learned that something was wrong. Aunt Polly Huck and Tom get told off for playing tricks and causing trouble.
Chapter 43
Huck asks Tom what he had planned to do once Jim had been freed when Tom explains that he was planning to repay Jim for all the trouble he caused and send him back as hero with a marching band. When Aunt Polly and the Phelpses hear about how Jim helped the doctor in helping Tom, they unchain him, feed him and treat him highly. Tom gives Jim forty dollars in return for the trouble. Tom fully recovers and Huck and Tom want to go on another adventure to the Indian territory. Huck thinks that Pap has taken all his money by now but Jim says that could not have happened. Jim finally tells Huck that the dead body which they found in the floating house during the flood was Pap. Huck is relieved. Huck plans to head out west because Aunt Sally tries to civilise him.