Note; Every paragraph represents the next chapter in order.
Chapter Summaries
Chapters 1-3
The story is told in the perspective of Huckleberry Finn who is living with the Widow Douglas. In Chapter One, Miss. Watson, the sister of Widow Douglas, is trying to civilize Huckleberry but he doesn’t like being stuffed up in stiff clothes; he wants to feel free. Miss. Watson is a praying lady which deters Huckleberry from wanting to go to the "good place" because he doesn't think that going where Miss. Watson is going sounds like fun. Huckleberry wants to go to the place that Tom is going to. Then one night while Huckleberry is lying in bed, he becomes frightened of scary noises outside his window in the woods. He also accidentally kills a spider which he is sure is bad luck. Then he hears Tom Sawyer out in the woods so Huckleberry goes out and meets him.
In Chapter Two, he and Tom have to sneak by Jim who is in the kitchen. Jim hears them outside and waits a while to see if someone is there, but he falls asleep. Tom’s mischievous nature compels him to take Jim’s hat and hang it on tree while Jim is sleeping. Then, when Jim wakes up, he brags about how witches carried him off. That night, Tom, Huckleberry, and some other boys sneak off to a cave to start a band of robbers. To do this, they have to sign an oath in blood. The oath is very farfetched and has to do with killing and robbing people. Tom got the ideas from books about robbers and pirates and he was also elected first captain of the gang.
In Chapter Three, Miss. Watson confuses Huckleberry by telling him that whatever he prays for he will get. Huckleberry tries this, but he finds it doesn't work until Miss. Watson explains that the gifts are spiritual gifts. Miss. Watson also told him that he should never think of himself before others. Huckleberry doesn't think that either of these things are worth while The boys' gang have robber meetings and most of it is all pretend which disappoints Huckleberry and eventually everyone resigns from the club. This is because they think that they will really rob people and make off with a lot of money, but they never do. Tom even tries to convince Huckleberry that everything is enchanted which is why they can’t see the real things that they are robbing. He says that it is changed to a normal setting by evil magicians who get genies from lamps to do everything. Huckleberry tries to rub a genie from a lamp. In the end, he figures that it is just another one of Tom’s lies. In this chapter, Huckleberry also finds out that his Pap was found drowned in a river and he was relieved to hear it, but then he became anxious when he questioned if his Pap is not actually dead and would come back.
In Chapter Two, he and Tom have to sneak by Jim who is in the kitchen. Jim hears them outside and waits a while to see if someone is there, but he falls asleep. Tom’s mischievous nature compels him to take Jim’s hat and hang it on tree while Jim is sleeping. Then, when Jim wakes up, he brags about how witches carried him off. That night, Tom, Huckleberry, and some other boys sneak off to a cave to start a band of robbers. To do this, they have to sign an oath in blood. The oath is very farfetched and has to do with killing and robbing people. Tom got the ideas from books about robbers and pirates and he was also elected first captain of the gang.
In Chapter Three, Miss. Watson confuses Huckleberry by telling him that whatever he prays for he will get. Huckleberry tries this, but he finds it doesn't work until Miss. Watson explains that the gifts are spiritual gifts. Miss. Watson also told him that he should never think of himself before others. Huckleberry doesn't think that either of these things are worth while The boys' gang have robber meetings and most of it is all pretend which disappoints Huckleberry and eventually everyone resigns from the club. This is because they think that they will really rob people and make off with a lot of money, but they never do. Tom even tries to convince Huckleberry that everything is enchanted which is why they can’t see the real things that they are robbing. He says that it is changed to a normal setting by evil magicians who get genies from lamps to do everything. Huckleberry tries to rub a genie from a lamp. In the end, he figures that it is just another one of Tom’s lies. In this chapter, Huckleberry also finds out that his Pap was found drowned in a river and he was relieved to hear it, but then he became anxious when he questioned if his Pap is not actually dead and would come back.
Chapters 4-6
The book skips ahead a couple months to start Chapter Four with Huckleberry describing his schooling situation. He started out not liking school so he played hookey a little but he is starting to like it more and more. He can also read, write, and do some multiplication now. According to Widow Douglas, Huckleberry is coming along well at home. One day, a case of bad luck shows Huckleberry’s Pap's footprints in the snow. Huckleberry runs to Judge Thatcher to give him all the $6,000 dollars that Huckleberry and Tom had found before this book. Huckleberry seeks the advice from Jim's hair ball which is from the stomach of an ox which can apparently tell fortunes. Huckleberry pays the hairball a counterfeit quarter for it to talk. It tells him that sometimes he will go through bad stuff but it will get better. The chapter ends with Huckleberry discovering his Pap in his room.
Pap is described as appearing very ragged with long, greasy hair and toes sticking out of his boots. In Chapter Five, Huckleberry’s Pap rants about how he doesn’t want Huckleberry to go to school anymore and how the widow had no right to send him to school. He makes Huckleberry prove that he can read and write; when he proves it, Pap gets very mad. He threatens to tan Huckleberry if he catches him at school. Then he tells Huckleberry to give him all the money, but luckily Huckleberry can honestly say that he doesn’t have the money- Judge Thatcher has it. Huckleberry does give Pap the dollar that he had in his pocket and Pap ends up getting drunk with it. Judge Thatcher and Pap argue about if Huckleberry if Pap should be allowed to take care of Huckleberry. The Judge at the trial didn't know Pap well so he decided that the boy shouldn't be separated form his father. Pap gets very drunk again and ends up being jailed for a week. When he got out of jail he promised to change his life and start over new, but this promise fell through.
In Chapter Six, Huckleberry is caught attending school by his Pap a couple of times. His Pap finally takes Huckleberry away up the river about three miles to a small cabin where Huckleberry is locked inside whenever Pap leaves. Huckleberry thought that the life was lazy and comfortable and he started to not want to return o the widow anymore. But Pap abuses Huckleberry enough that Huckleberry makes an escape plan. He finds a saw and plans to escape the next time Pap gets drunk. Pap comes back from town one day with news that there is going to be another trial to try to let Widow Douglas be Huckleberry's guardian. Pap was so angry that he threatened to take Huckleberry to another place hidden farther away. Huckleberry knows that he will be able to escape the next time that Pap gets drunk because of the discovery of the saw. Soon Pap comes home drunk, but Huckleberry couldn't escape because instead of Pap falling sound asleep, Huckleberry did! Pap wakes him up later by screaming about snakes biting him and crawling all over him. Then he sees Huckleberry and tries to attack him with a knife, thinking that Huckleberry is the angel of death. After almost getting caught, Pap finally becomes tired and falls asleep. Huckleberry grabs the gun and guards Pap in case he wakes up and tries to attack Huckleberry again, but Huckleberry fell asleep also.
Pap is described as appearing very ragged with long, greasy hair and toes sticking out of his boots. In Chapter Five, Huckleberry’s Pap rants about how he doesn’t want Huckleberry to go to school anymore and how the widow had no right to send him to school. He makes Huckleberry prove that he can read and write; when he proves it, Pap gets very mad. He threatens to tan Huckleberry if he catches him at school. Then he tells Huckleberry to give him all the money, but luckily Huckleberry can honestly say that he doesn’t have the money- Judge Thatcher has it. Huckleberry does give Pap the dollar that he had in his pocket and Pap ends up getting drunk with it. Judge Thatcher and Pap argue about if Huckleberry if Pap should be allowed to take care of Huckleberry. The Judge at the trial didn't know Pap well so he decided that the boy shouldn't be separated form his father. Pap gets very drunk again and ends up being jailed for a week. When he got out of jail he promised to change his life and start over new, but this promise fell through.
In Chapter Six, Huckleberry is caught attending school by his Pap a couple of times. His Pap finally takes Huckleberry away up the river about three miles to a small cabin where Huckleberry is locked inside whenever Pap leaves. Huckleberry thought that the life was lazy and comfortable and he started to not want to return o the widow anymore. But Pap abuses Huckleberry enough that Huckleberry makes an escape plan. He finds a saw and plans to escape the next time Pap gets drunk. Pap comes back from town one day with news that there is going to be another trial to try to let Widow Douglas be Huckleberry's guardian. Pap was so angry that he threatened to take Huckleberry to another place hidden farther away. Huckleberry knows that he will be able to escape the next time that Pap gets drunk because of the discovery of the saw. Soon Pap comes home drunk, but Huckleberry couldn't escape because instead of Pap falling sound asleep, Huckleberry did! Pap wakes him up later by screaming about snakes biting him and crawling all over him. Then he sees Huckleberry and tries to attack him with a knife, thinking that Huckleberry is the angel of death. After almost getting caught, Pap finally becomes tired and falls asleep. Huckleberry grabs the gun and guards Pap in case he wakes up and tries to attack Huckleberry again, but Huckleberry fell asleep also.
Chapters 7-8
Chapter Seven starts with Pap waking up Huckleberry who still has the gun and Pap is very suspicious but Huckleberry says that he had the gun because he thought that he heard someone outside and he couldn't wake Pap up. Later, Huckleberry finds a canoe that is like-new. He decides to hid it and use it later to escape using the river. At about twelve o'clock, they find nine logs of driftwood put together to make a raft and Pap goes to town to sell it. Huckleberry know s that this is his chance to escape. He packs up the canoe with everything that he possibly could and then he staged his death. He kills a pig and spread the pig's blood in the cabin and he also rips out his hair and puts it in the blood. He dragged the pig to the river and sunk it with rocks. This made a path of blood to the river. to make things more confusing, Huckleberry also made a path of meal from a sack that he cut open with his saw and dragged to the lake. This made another idversion. Huckleberry makes a plan to go to Jackson's Island. When he arrives he stepped into the woods and took a nap before he had breakfast.
The next day in Chapter Eight, Huckleberry hears the boom of a canon which is looking for his dead body in the river. The people on the ferry included Pap, Judge Thatcher, his wife Bessie, Joe Harper, Tom Sawyer, Tom's Aunt Polly, Sid, and Mary who were all talking about the murder. When they left, Huckleberry felt very relieved. for the next couple days Huckleberry explored the island; he felt as though he owned it. But he unexpectedly finds a dead camp fire that is still smoking. He quickly grabs his gun and sneaks quietly around. Then he hears a man saying, "We better camp out here if we can find a good place; the horses is about to beat out. Let's look around. Huckleberry quickly paddles away but his curiosity got the better of him and the next morning he set out to find out who were the people that he heard. To his surprise, he encounters Jim. At first, Jim is convinced that Huckleberry is a ghost. After a breakfast of a giant catfish, Jim and Huckleberry share there stories. Jim had run off because he had heard that he was going to be sold to someone for $800. Then Huckleberry and Jim talked about signs of bad-luck. According to Jim, a sign that someone will be rich is if they have hairy arms and breast. Then Jim says that now that he owns himself and he's worth $800. If he had that kind of money then he wouldn't want anymore.
The next day in Chapter Eight, Huckleberry hears the boom of a canon which is looking for his dead body in the river. The people on the ferry included Pap, Judge Thatcher, his wife Bessie, Joe Harper, Tom Sawyer, Tom's Aunt Polly, Sid, and Mary who were all talking about the murder. When they left, Huckleberry felt very relieved. for the next couple days Huckleberry explored the island; he felt as though he owned it. But he unexpectedly finds a dead camp fire that is still smoking. He quickly grabs his gun and sneaks quietly around. Then he hears a man saying, "We better camp out here if we can find a good place; the horses is about to beat out. Let's look around. Huckleberry quickly paddles away but his curiosity got the better of him and the next morning he set out to find out who were the people that he heard. To his surprise, he encounters Jim. At first, Jim is convinced that Huckleberry is a ghost. After a breakfast of a giant catfish, Jim and Huckleberry share there stories. Jim had run off because he had heard that he was going to be sold to someone for $800. Then Huckleberry and Jim talked about signs of bad-luck. According to Jim, a sign that someone will be rich is if they have hairy arms and breast. Then Jim says that now that he owns himself and he's worth $800. If he had that kind of money then he wouldn't want anymore.
Chapters 9-11
In Chapter Nine, Jim and Huckleberry spend a lot of their time exploring the island and canoeing around the island. They know they need a hiding place on the island in case people come looking for them. They set up camp in a deserted cave and they also hide the canoe. Jim predicts that is will rain because the birds. Bad storms weren't uncommon on the island and they would find many things drifting, and one day the found a two story house. Inside, they discover a dead man's body. Jim shields Huckleberry from looking at his face. The man was stark naked, shot in the back, and had been dead for a few days. Huckleberry and Jim made a good haul of things from the house including eight dollars.
The next day in Chapter Ten, when Huckleberry wants to talk about the dead man, Jim says that it is bad luck to talk about a dead man who hasn't been buried because he is more likely to haunt. This bad luck comes when Huckleberry decides to play a prank on Jim. Huckleberry kills a rattlesnake that he found and he curls it up where Jim sleeps at night. When Jim goes to bed, the snake's mate is there and bites him on the heel which swells very badly. Jim tries a lot of remedies to help him heal. Jim eats some of the the rattlesnake (cooked) and ties the rattles to his wrist. He also drinks a lot of whiskey from a jug, but Jim was still sick for four days. Once Jim healed, Huckleberry was anxious for some more excitement so Jim helped Huckleberry dress up like a girl (with some of the girl clothes that they hauled from the drift house). This way he could go across the river and find out what was going on in village.
Chapter 11: Huckleberry goes into town and he tells a lady at he is cold and hungry. He tells the lady that his name is Sarah Williams but then he makes a mistake because when she asks Jim what he said his name is he says that it is Mary. He tells the lady that he is on his way to his Uncle Abner Moore's at the upper hand of town. Then the lady talked at Huckleberry about him, Pap, Jim and the murder of Huckleberry. She tells Huckleberry that she thinks that Jim and Huckleberry are on Jackson's Island and her husband is there now looking for them so that they can get the prize of $300 dollars for finding Jim. Later, she discovers through some sly tests of her own that Huckleberry isn't a girl at all but really a boy. Huckleberry is forced to make up another lie/ story about why he is "really" there. He then leaves and rushes over to the Island to tell Jim that they have to pack quickly because people are after them.
The next day in Chapter Ten, when Huckleberry wants to talk about the dead man, Jim says that it is bad luck to talk about a dead man who hasn't been buried because he is more likely to haunt. This bad luck comes when Huckleberry decides to play a prank on Jim. Huckleberry kills a rattlesnake that he found and he curls it up where Jim sleeps at night. When Jim goes to bed, the snake's mate is there and bites him on the heel which swells very badly. Jim tries a lot of remedies to help him heal. Jim eats some of the the rattlesnake (cooked) and ties the rattles to his wrist. He also drinks a lot of whiskey from a jug, but Jim was still sick for four days. Once Jim healed, Huckleberry was anxious for some more excitement so Jim helped Huckleberry dress up like a girl (with some of the girl clothes that they hauled from the drift house). This way he could go across the river and find out what was going on in village.
Chapter 11: Huckleberry goes into town and he tells a lady at he is cold and hungry. He tells the lady that his name is Sarah Williams but then he makes a mistake because when she asks Jim what he said his name is he says that it is Mary. He tells the lady that he is on his way to his Uncle Abner Moore's at the upper hand of town. Then the lady talked at Huckleberry about him, Pap, Jim and the murder of Huckleberry. She tells Huckleberry that she thinks that Jim and Huckleberry are on Jackson's Island and her husband is there now looking for them so that they can get the prize of $300 dollars for finding Jim. Later, she discovers through some sly tests of her own that Huckleberry isn't a girl at all but really a boy. Huckleberry is forced to make up another lie/ story about why he is "really" there. He then leaves and rushes over to the Island to tell Jim that they have to pack quickly because people are after them.
Chapters 12-14
Jim and Huckleberry enjoy going down the river and Jim even made a wigwam where they can stay safe form the weather. They live the high life by stealing and buying produce from the nearby villages. They justify their stealing by saying that once they steal one item, they won't steal the same item again. But Huckleberry remembers that the widow They are in for anther adventure when Huckleberry spots a steamboat that has wrecked. Huckleberry convinces Jim to go explore the ship. When they get there, they discovered two murderers planning how they should kill this third guy in the next room who is tied up. Huckleberry and Jim want to get off the island as quickly as possibly, but their raft had drifted away.
They plan to take the lifeboat and just manage to us it and get away. Huckleberry runs to land to get help form a watchman. He lies and says that his aunt and uncle and sister and mother are all on the steamboat that is sinking. Unfortunately, Huckleberry is a little late and the steamboat sinks with the three people on it.
In chapter 14, Jim and Huckleberry discuss kings and dauphins and the wives of the kings. Huckleberry tells Jim stories about adventurers and kings who are lazy and filthy rich. Jim doesn't believe that the French don't speak English because he thinks that all men speak the same language because they are the same species.
They plan to take the lifeboat and just manage to us it and get away. Huckleberry runs to land to get help form a watchman. He lies and says that his aunt and uncle and sister and mother are all on the steamboat that is sinking. Unfortunately, Huckleberry is a little late and the steamboat sinks with the three people on it.
In chapter 14, Jim and Huckleberry discuss kings and dauphins and the wives of the kings. Huckleberry tells Jim stories about adventurers and kings who are lazy and filthy rich. Jim doesn't believe that the French don't speak English because he thinks that all men speak the same language because they are the same species.
Chapters 15-16
In chapter 15, Jim and Huckleberry get separated in the fog- Jim is on the raft and Huckleberry has the canoe. Huckleberry tires to find the canoe but he doesn't know where he is, which direction he is going, or how fast he is going. Huckleberry decides to float until the fog goes away. When it does, he finds Jim who is sleeping on the raft. When Huckleberry wakes Jim, he convinces Jim that it was all a dream. Jim tells his "dream" and how it relates to their journey to the free states. Jim realizes that Huckleberry was lying that it was all a dream when he sees all the debris on his raft. It takes Huckleberry a full 15 minutes to go and apologize to Jim for lying to him.
In chapter 16 Huckleberry is confronted by his conscience and faces an extreme internal conflict. He thinks it isn't right for him to be helping Jim escape and that Jim shouldn't have run away. Huckleberry feels as though he is responsible for Jim- to Huckleberry, Jim is a piece of property that he has stolen. Through the foggy night drifting on the raft, Jim is on the lookout for Cairo which he believes is the town where he can be free. He tells Huckleberry about how he is going to buy back his family once he is free or steal back his children. This makes Huckleberry feel even worse, and when Jim thinks that he sees Cairo, Huckleberry jumps out to go check. Huckleberry is planning on turning Jim in, but he is intercepted by some men looking for runaway slaves. Huckleberry can't bring himself to say that Jim is there. He says it is his father, and he says that his father is sick and needs to be taken into town but no one will help them. The men become suspicious that the man has smallpox so they give Huckleberry $40 and tell him to go lie to the people in town and get some help. In this way, Huckleberry realizes that he would feel the same bad feeling even if he turned Jim in. He comes to the conclusion that it is't worth turning Jim in because the wages are the same. As they are drifting alone, a steamboat runs into their raft. This leaves Huckleberry and Jim separated. Huckleberry finds himself surrounded by a pack of dogs when he reaches land.
In chapter 16 Huckleberry is confronted by his conscience and faces an extreme internal conflict. He thinks it isn't right for him to be helping Jim escape and that Jim shouldn't have run away. Huckleberry feels as though he is responsible for Jim- to Huckleberry, Jim is a piece of property that he has stolen. Through the foggy night drifting on the raft, Jim is on the lookout for Cairo which he believes is the town where he can be free. He tells Huckleberry about how he is going to buy back his family once he is free or steal back his children. This makes Huckleberry feel even worse, and when Jim thinks that he sees Cairo, Huckleberry jumps out to go check. Huckleberry is planning on turning Jim in, but he is intercepted by some men looking for runaway slaves. Huckleberry can't bring himself to say that Jim is there. He says it is his father, and he says that his father is sick and needs to be taken into town but no one will help them. The men become suspicious that the man has smallpox so they give Huckleberry $40 and tell him to go lie to the people in town and get some help. In this way, Huckleberry realizes that he would feel the same bad feeling even if he turned Jim in. He comes to the conclusion that it is't worth turning Jim in because the wages are the same. As they are drifting alone, a steamboat runs into their raft. This leaves Huckleberry and Jim separated. Huckleberry finds himself surrounded by a pack of dogs when he reaches land.
Chapters 17-18
The dogs are owned by a family called the Grangerfords who are very wary of Hucklberry. Most of the members of the family are even carrying guns. Eventually, they believe that Huckleberry is not the enemy and Huckleberry introduces himself as "George Jaxson". The Grangerford house is very comfortable to Huckleberry and one boy, Buck who is about Huckleberry's age, gives Huckleberry some dry clothes. Huckleberry admires the poetry work of one of the family's daughters who died. She was a great artist and a painter. She mostly wrote poems to commemorate the dead and painted sad and depressing paintings. Huckleberry tries to write a poem to commemorate her, but he couldn't seem to "make it go". All in all, Huckleberry likes being at the Grangerfords' comfortable house.
Living with the Grangerfords menas that Huck gets his own slave because the Grangerfords have hundreds of slaves. Huckleberry learns that the Grangerfords are in a feud with the Shepherdsons that started a long time ago. At church, both families have their guns with them even while the preacher preaches about love and brotherhood. One day after church, Sofia (one of the Grangerfords) has Huckleberry fetch her her bible form the church that she left there. Inside is a not that says 2:00. Later, Sofia runs away to be married to Harney Shepherdson at 2:00 in the morning. Then a full battle breaks out between the feuding families and Buck and another Grangerford dies. Huckleberry had been hiding in a tree and witnessed the whole thing. He runs to find Jim when it is over. Jim is so happy to see Huckleberry because he had thought that Huckleberry was dead.
Living with the Grangerfords menas that Huck gets his own slave because the Grangerfords have hundreds of slaves. Huckleberry learns that the Grangerfords are in a feud with the Shepherdsons that started a long time ago. At church, both families have their guns with them even while the preacher preaches about love and brotherhood. One day after church, Sofia (one of the Grangerfords) has Huckleberry fetch her her bible form the church that she left there. Inside is a not that says 2:00. Later, Sofia runs away to be married to Harney Shepherdson at 2:00 in the morning. Then a full battle breaks out between the feuding families and Buck and another Grangerford dies. Huckleberry had been hiding in a tree and witnessed the whole thing. He runs to find Jim when it is over. Jim is so happy to see Huckleberry because he had thought that Huckleberry was dead.
Chapters 19-20
In Chapter 19, Huck and Jim come across two men who they allow to be on their raft becasue they are both in similar bad situations. , they can work together as con men to trick Huck and Jim. One of the men used to sell toothpaste but because it damaged the people's teeth he had to get away. The other man was fleeing because he used to run meetings about temperance, but people found out that he actually drank. The younger man make up the story that he was actually a duke. Then the older man realized that he could do the same so he made up that he was the long lost king of france: the dauphin. Only Jim was tricked. Huckleberry knew that they were frauds but he didn't bother telling Jim. Huckleberry makes up a story about him and Jim to convince the two men that Jim is not a runaway slave.
The younger man seems to be having a hard time with the older man. He feels as though he stole his thunder. Eventually, Hucklberry settles it and makes them shake hands. The two men decide to perform Shakespeare in the next town but the town seems deserted because everyone has gone to a revival meetng. THe duke takes over the meeting. He tells everyone that he is a reformed pirate who has had everything taken away from him. But he says that it is a blessing in disguise and he plans to dedicate the rest of his life to reforming pirates. He wins over the crowd and they take up a collection for him. He collects 87 dollars and 75 cents. The king earns nine dollars in town and puts in a wanted add for $200 dollars for Jim as a runaway slave. He figures that this will allow them to travel at night. If they see or hear people coming, they will but chains on Jim and pretend that they are taking him away.
The younger man seems to be having a hard time with the older man. He feels as though he stole his thunder. Eventually, Hucklberry settles it and makes them shake hands. The two men decide to perform Shakespeare in the next town but the town seems deserted because everyone has gone to a revival meetng. THe duke takes over the meeting. He tells everyone that he is a reformed pirate who has had everything taken away from him. But he says that it is a blessing in disguise and he plans to dedicate the rest of his life to reforming pirates. He wins over the crowd and they take up a collection for him. He collects 87 dollars and 75 cents. The king earns nine dollars in town and puts in a wanted add for $200 dollars for Jim as a runaway slave. He figures that this will allow them to travel at night. If they see or hear people coming, they will but chains on Jim and pretend that they are taking him away.
Chapters 21-24
When the duke and the king are practicing Shakespeare, the duke puts on show as he pretends to try to remember Hamlet's Soliloquy. He recites it with so much emotion the Huckleberry is convinced that he has a lot of talent, but it is actually a bunch of lines form different Shakespeare plays. Then they visit a town where the duke and king post advertisements for their performances. On the descriptions they lie about who they are and how great their performances are going to be. Then Huckleberry sees the shooting of a drunk man who's daughter was watching. She was pretty but she was so shocked and scared. After the shooting, the crowd goes to lynch a man named Sherburn.
The people are met by Sherburn who is on his porch with a rifle. He eventually makes the mob leave. Huckleberry goes to a circus where he sees a clown who is performing like he is drunk. He gets on a horse and Huckleberry sees that he is hanging on for dear life but everyone else in the crowd is laughing. The duke and king's performance doesn't go very well. Their crowd jeers at them the whole time. When they write up their next advertisement they write "Ladies and Children not admitted" at the bottom in large font. They do this hoping that it will fetch a large crowd.
The crowd that the duke and theking draws, is huge. But the crowd is furious when they realize that they have bneen ripped off with such a short performance. But, the duke and king tell them that to make themselves feel better, they should trick their friends too. they should tell their friends that it was a great performance. The next night, the duke and king have a full audience again.This audience also becomes mad when they realize that they have been ripped off. But the next night, people from both previous audiences come with their pockets bulging with cabbage and tomatoes. After everyone pays to get in, the king and duke run off with the money leaving the audience waiting for the perfomance to begin so that they can attack the duke and king. All in all the two men make out with $465.
Jim complains about not being able to sleep all tied up since he has to be in order for it to seem as though he is a captured slave. The duke thinks of another plan that involves painting Jim in blue paint and dressing him in a ridiculous outfit. Then a sign is places outside his wigwam that read, "Sick Arab- but harmless when not out of his head." When in town, the king encounters a young man and who tells the king about a Mr. Wilk's brother who just died. the king questions him enough to find out that Peter who died wanted his brothers Harvey and William to come visit him and they were going to inherit a huge sum of money. This gives the duke and king a very good idea to earn some money.
Chapters 25-28
In chapter 25 the duke and king go into town pretending to be Harvey and William. They draw a huge crowd and they make a huge scene and cry over the dead body of Peter. They make speeches and they also know everyone by name because of talking to the boy at the steamboat. After the will is read, the impostors gain almost $6,000 but decide to "give" it to their "nieces". Then a family friend and town doctor announces that the duke and king are impostors because of the nonsense that they talk and their fake English accent. The girls stand up for Harvey and William and the man finally leaves with some foreboding words. The girls give the money back to the king and duke to make u for the harsh words of the man.
In Chapter 26, one of the girls questions Huckleberry about what it is like on England and Huckleberry (who is acting as the king and duke's personal servant). He finds himself tongue-tied and saying the wrong things. She becomes suspicious that Huckleberry is an impostor, but her sisters rebuke her for making Huckleberry not feel welcome. The girls stood up for Huckleberry so much, that at the end of the chapter he felt so guilty that he was helping the duke and king take advantage of them.
Huckleberry tries to slip the money outside but he finds the front door locked. Mary Jane then comes dawn stair so Huck quickly hides the money in the coffin with the dead man. Huck then slips out of the room before Mary Jane enters. She kneels by the coffin and Huckleberry watches her cry. The next day the coffin is sealed without being looked inside and Huckleberry realizes that he doesn't know if the duke and king have gotten there money back or if someone found the money in the coffin and took it. The duke promises to take his nieces to England. He sells the slaves which upsets everyone because the children will be separated from their mother. Then the duke and king discover that the money is missing and confront Huck. Huck manages to convince them that he saw the slaves leaving the room a couple times. The duke thinks that it is a little funny, but the king doesn't find it humorous at all.
Huck solaces Mary Jane by telling her the truth. He figures that usually he has heard that telling the truth is a lot easier than telling lies so he decides to try it. Mary Jane is shocked and says that she will do whatever Huckleberry tells her to do in order to help. The only thing that Huck doesn't tell her about is where he put the money. Instead, he writes it on a note for her to read on her way top a friend’s house (which is part of the plan). This is part of the plan so that Mary Jane's face doesn't give away that she knows the truth behind her "Uncles".
In Chapter 26, one of the girls questions Huckleberry about what it is like on England and Huckleberry (who is acting as the king and duke's personal servant). He finds himself tongue-tied and saying the wrong things. She becomes suspicious that Huckleberry is an impostor, but her sisters rebuke her for making Huckleberry not feel welcome. The girls stood up for Huckleberry so much, that at the end of the chapter he felt so guilty that he was helping the duke and king take advantage of them.
Huckleberry tries to slip the money outside but he finds the front door locked. Mary Jane then comes dawn stair so Huck quickly hides the money in the coffin with the dead man. Huck then slips out of the room before Mary Jane enters. She kneels by the coffin and Huckleberry watches her cry. The next day the coffin is sealed without being looked inside and Huckleberry realizes that he doesn't know if the duke and king have gotten there money back or if someone found the money in the coffin and took it. The duke promises to take his nieces to England. He sells the slaves which upsets everyone because the children will be separated from their mother. Then the duke and king discover that the money is missing and confront Huck. Huck manages to convince them that he saw the slaves leaving the room a couple times. The duke thinks that it is a little funny, but the king doesn't find it humorous at all.
Huck solaces Mary Jane by telling her the truth. He figures that usually he has heard that telling the truth is a lot easier than telling lies so he decides to try it. Mary Jane is shocked and says that she will do whatever Huckleberry tells her to do in order to help. The only thing that Huck doesn't tell her about is where he put the money. Instead, he writes it on a note for her to read on her way top a friend’s house (which is part of the plan). This is part of the plan so that Mary Jane's face doesn't give away that she knows the truth behind her "Uncles".
Chapters 29-31
The real Wilks show up and are much more genuine than the frauds. Harvey explains that his mute brother William just broke his arm so he can't communicate very well, and their luggage is being retrieved. The frauds laugh over how convenient that is given the situation. Both sets of Wilks are taken to town to be examined and Huck is brought down with them. the handwriting of all of them is compared with real letters from the real Harvey. None of the handwritings match and the real HArvey explains that william was the scribe for Harvey's letters but since his right arm is broken, he can't prove it. Th real harvey then says that he knows what tattoo is on Peter's chest. He asks the frauds if they know. the king says that is is a very faint, thin line of a blue arrow. The real Harvey says i is the initials P-W-B. Oddly enough, the undertaker didn't see either one of the tattoos on the chest of the dead man. A mob has formed and yells for all (4) of the frauds to be killed. But the lawyer calms them and says that they will undig the body and check the theories. When the lid is taken off the coffin, Huckleberry manages to escape from the clutches of his guard amidst the excitement. He steals a canoe and runs into the raft while yelling for Jim to shove them off. He is so happy to be free form the duke and king that he daces a little jig on his raft. But then the duke and king appear.
the King is furious at Huckleberry for deserting them and he threatens to drown Huck. The duke clams him down but then the duke and the king turn on each other each convicting the other of putting the money in the coffin and planning on deserting and uncovering the money later leaving it all to themselves. By the end the duke makes the king "confess" and they fall asleep.
the duke and king try to all sorts of different rip offs at different towns but none of them seem to work at all. Then duke and king start conspiring a secret plan for hours at a time alone in their tent. Huckleberry and Jim start to worry and look for an opportunity to escape. the foursome stops at a town where Huckleberry is sent in to scope it out. When he returns he find that the duke and king are non where to be seen and Jim is also gone. He learns that Jim was captured by the king dor $200 dollars and then he was eventually sold for $40 to a man named Silas Phelps. Huck decides to write Miss. Watson and tell her where Jim is but hen he decides that he would rather go to hell for Jim than to give him up like that. He figures that he would just be sold again by Miss. Watson. Also, Huck can't think of a good reason to desert Jim considering that Huck is Jim's only best friend. On his way in town, Huck runs in to the duke and the king who are hanging posters for one of their performances. Huck asks where Jim is and the duke says that he was sold to a man named Phelps but then he changes his story and says that he was sold to a man 40 miles away. Huck tells him that he will travel for a total of about three days to reach Jim and the duke seems pleased with that.
the King is furious at Huckleberry for deserting them and he threatens to drown Huck. The duke clams him down but then the duke and the king turn on each other each convicting the other of putting the money in the coffin and planning on deserting and uncovering the money later leaving it all to themselves. By the end the duke makes the king "confess" and they fall asleep.
the duke and king try to all sorts of different rip offs at different towns but none of them seem to work at all. Then duke and king start conspiring a secret plan for hours at a time alone in their tent. Huckleberry and Jim start to worry and look for an opportunity to escape. the foursome stops at a town where Huckleberry is sent in to scope it out. When he returns he find that the duke and king are non where to be seen and Jim is also gone. He learns that Jim was captured by the king dor $200 dollars and then he was eventually sold for $40 to a man named Silas Phelps. Huck decides to write Miss. Watson and tell her where Jim is but hen he decides that he would rather go to hell for Jim than to give him up like that. He figures that he would just be sold again by Miss. Watson. Also, Huck can't think of a good reason to desert Jim considering that Huck is Jim's only best friend. On his way in town, Huck runs in to the duke and the king who are hanging posters for one of their performances. Huck asks where Jim is and the duke says that he was sold to a man named Phelps but then he changes his story and says that he was sold to a man 40 miles away. Huck tells him that he will travel for a total of about three days to reach Jim and the duke seems pleased with that.
Chapters 32-34
Huck doubles back to the Phelps house as soon as he is out of sight of the duke and king. When he arrives he is greeted with hugs and kisses from woman named Sally who thinks that he is her nephew Tom. Huck pretends to be Tom without knowing anything about who he is. When the woman’s husband arrives after waiting for the real Tom to arrive at the docks, Huckleberry finds out that he is supposed to be none other than Tom Sawyer. He then goes to 'get his luggage’ from where he 'left it' but really he goes out to try to find the real Tom Sawyer and tell him of the predicament.
Huck meets Tom and Tom doesn't believe that it is really Huck when he first sees him- Tom thinks that Huck is a ghost of Huck. Huck tells Tom everything including how he is trying to steal Jim. Tom says that he will help steal Jim which shocks Huck. He is very surprised that Tom would agree to do something that is so bad. Huck then goes back to the house with the real Tom's luggage (pretending it is his own) and waits for Tom to come. When he does, Tom says to the family that he is a stranger from Ohio and they invite him for dinner. In the middle of dinner he kisses Aunt Sally and she yells at him. Then he declares that he is actually her other nephew Sid. Huck and Tom learn from Silas- the husband of Sally- that Jim had warned him that the duke and king's performance was a trick. Tom and Huck sneak off to town at night and see a mob that has tar and feathered the duke and king and tied them to a rail. Huck feels bad for them and guilty. But he concludes that his conscience always makes him feel that way.
Tom recalls seeing food being brought to a shed and they conclude that that is where Jim is being held. Tom and Huck work to devise a plan to steal Jim. Huck's original plan is simple and easy and affective and Tom's is 15 times more complicated and fancy. Tom comments that his own plan might even get all three of the killed. Huck can’t believe that Tom would risk his reputation and life just to steal a slave.
Huck meets Tom and Tom doesn't believe that it is really Huck when he first sees him- Tom thinks that Huck is a ghost of Huck. Huck tells Tom everything including how he is trying to steal Jim. Tom says that he will help steal Jim which shocks Huck. He is very surprised that Tom would agree to do something that is so bad. Huck then goes back to the house with the real Tom's luggage (pretending it is his own) and waits for Tom to come. When he does, Tom says to the family that he is a stranger from Ohio and they invite him for dinner. In the middle of dinner he kisses Aunt Sally and she yells at him. Then he declares that he is actually her other nephew Sid. Huck and Tom learn from Silas- the husband of Sally- that Jim had warned him that the duke and king's performance was a trick. Tom and Huck sneak off to town at night and see a mob that has tar and feathered the duke and king and tied them to a rail. Huck feels bad for them and guilty. But he concludes that his conscience always makes him feel that way.
Tom recalls seeing food being brought to a shed and they conclude that that is where Jim is being held. Tom and Huck work to devise a plan to steal Jim. Huck's original plan is simple and easy and affective and Tom's is 15 times more complicated and fancy. Tom comments that his own plan might even get all three of the killed. Huck can’t believe that Tom would risk his reputation and life just to steal a slave.
Chapters 35-38
Tom decides that they must invent all the difficulties to rescue Jim because there would be more humor getting him out with danger. Tom and Huckleberry argue over what way they should save Jim. Huckleberry is for the simple and easy ways while Tom argues to make more difficulty and follow tradition. Finally, Tom and Huckleberry have a plan that includes a rope ladder made out of sheets snuck in inside a pie, a "journal" for Jim written with pens made out of candlesticks and written in blood, plates to write on and throw outside, and a tunnel dug out with case knives. Tom and Huckleberry resort to "borrowing" for their supplies and justify the borrowing by saying that it is alright to borrow for a prisoner.
In chapter 36, Tom sighs and says that they have to use picks and shovels because case knives would take one year to long. He decides that they will pretend that they are using case knives but really will be using shovels and picks. that night the boys sneak into Jim's cabin through a dug out tunnel. After talking with Jim, Tom tells him that they will send him supplies though the pockets and in through the delivery of jim's food. One day, Nat (the slave who delivers Jim's food and is very superstitious) is delivering Jim's food when Tom and Huckleberry when the dogs pile in because the door was unlocked. Nat freaks out and the dogs leave to chase after a pice of meat that Tom threw. The boys encourage Nat to believe that they were witches by saying that they didn't see anything. They tell Nat to make a pie for the witches.
Aunt Sally is angry because she can't find Uncle Silas shirt, a missing spoon, six candles, a sheet, and a brass candlestick. All of these things have actually been borrowed by Tom and Huckleberry and made into supplies for Jim. Uncle Silas finds the spoon in his pocket where Tom and Huckleberry had put it. Aunt Sally tires to count them but Huckleberry cleverly steals one spoon and puts it back so that she never counts them the same two times in a row. They o the same thing with the sheets so that she doesn't know how many sheets she is supposed to have. Then Tom and Huckleberry bake the pie in the woods with a concealed rope ladder inside. They give this to Nat as a the witches pie and instruct him to leave it in Jim's cabin and not watch when Jim eats it.
Tom creates some sappy frases for Jim to inscribe on the walls of his cabin because it follows tradition. Because Jim can't write, he will trace Tom's writing on the wall. Tom also wants to fill Jim's cabin with snakes, rats, and spiders. Jim begs him not to make him tame theses animals that he is scared of. Tom blames Jim for not appreciating the opportunities that the has to make himself a great prisoner.
In chapter 36, Tom sighs and says that they have to use picks and shovels because case knives would take one year to long. He decides that they will pretend that they are using case knives but really will be using shovels and picks. that night the boys sneak into Jim's cabin through a dug out tunnel. After talking with Jim, Tom tells him that they will send him supplies though the pockets and in through the delivery of jim's food. One day, Nat (the slave who delivers Jim's food and is very superstitious) is delivering Jim's food when Tom and Huckleberry when the dogs pile in because the door was unlocked. Nat freaks out and the dogs leave to chase after a pice of meat that Tom threw. The boys encourage Nat to believe that they were witches by saying that they didn't see anything. They tell Nat to make a pie for the witches.
Aunt Sally is angry because she can't find Uncle Silas shirt, a missing spoon, six candles, a sheet, and a brass candlestick. All of these things have actually been borrowed by Tom and Huckleberry and made into supplies for Jim. Uncle Silas finds the spoon in his pocket where Tom and Huckleberry had put it. Aunt Sally tires to count them but Huckleberry cleverly steals one spoon and puts it back so that she never counts them the same two times in a row. They o the same thing with the sheets so that she doesn't know how many sheets she is supposed to have. Then Tom and Huckleberry bake the pie in the woods with a concealed rope ladder inside. They give this to Nat as a the witches pie and instruct him to leave it in Jim's cabin and not watch when Jim eats it.
Tom creates some sappy frases for Jim to inscribe on the walls of his cabin because it follows tradition. Because Jim can't write, he will trace Tom's writing on the wall. Tom also wants to fill Jim's cabin with snakes, rats, and spiders. Jim begs him not to make him tame theses animals that he is scared of. Tom blames Jim for not appreciating the opportunities that the has to make himself a great prisoner.
Chapters 39-40
While collecting the snakes to put in Jim's room, they escape and Ant Sally is a nervous wreck for weeks after they are all finally captured. In the cabin, every time a rat would bite Jim he would write an inscription on the wall with his blood. Tom decides that it is time to give the family a notice that something is about to happen so that when it does, there is a reaction. Huckleberry on the other hand thinks that it would be better to not cause as much trouble when sneaking Jim off. But Tom writes some letter from an anonymous friend warning them that trouble is brewing and they should be on the lookout. The boys also draw pictures of skulls and coffins with blood which they posted to the back and front doors. The last letter was from an anonymous friend too, but it said that at exactly midnight a gang of robbers were going to try to steal Jim away.
The night that they are going to steal Jim way, Huck dresses as a girl again and Tom dresses in one of Aunt Sally's dresses which Jim will then wear. Jim’s clothes will be stuffed with straw and put on his bed. Huck is caught by Aunt Sally in the cellar trying to sneak some butter. He is brought upstairs where the front room is filled with farmers with guns. Aunt Sally discovers the butter under Huck’s hat and realizes all he wanted was some butter (and that he wasn’t up to trouble). She sends him to bed. He runs to tell Tom that they need to hurry up. The three manage to slip out of the cabin. Then the farmers start shooting at them as they run and the dogs are sent out. The dogs don’t give the boys any trouble because they are familiar with the boys. When they reached the raft, they realized that Tom had a bullet in his leg. Huck was to go fetch a doctor against what Tom wanted and swear the doctor to secrecy.
The night that they are going to steal Jim way, Huck dresses as a girl again and Tom dresses in one of Aunt Sally's dresses which Jim will then wear. Jim’s clothes will be stuffed with straw and put on his bed. Huck is caught by Aunt Sally in the cellar trying to sneak some butter. He is brought upstairs where the front room is filled with farmers with guns. Aunt Sally discovers the butter under Huck’s hat and realizes all he wanted was some butter (and that he wasn’t up to trouble). She sends him to bed. He runs to tell Tom that they need to hurry up. The three manage to slip out of the cabin. Then the farmers start shooting at them as they run and the dogs are sent out. The dogs don’t give the boys any trouble because they are familiar with the boys. When they reached the raft, they realized that Tom had a bullet in his leg. Huck was to go fetch a doctor against what Tom wanted and swear the doctor to secrecy.
Chapters 41-43
Huck goes to find a doctor who he brings back to treat Tom. Later, he encounters Uncle Silas who brings Huck back to the house. At the house there are farmers with their wives who are discussing the "crazy" Jim. They call him crazy because of the crazy things in his cabin and inscribed on the wall. Aunt Sally won’t let Huckleberry go and find Tom because she doesn't want to risk losing another boy. Huck vows to himself never to hurt her again.
The next day, tom is brought back on a mattress by the doctor and a bunch of other people who have Jim with his hands tied behind his back. The doctor tells about how helpful Jim was to the doctor. He says that they should be kind to him because when the doctor said that he needed help, Jim appeared to help him. Later, when Tom is in bed, Huckleberry visits him. Tom asks how Jim is. He doesn’t realize at first that Jim had been captured again. Aunt Sally comes in and Tom tells her about how they did such a great job rescuing Jim and how hard it was. When Tom realizes that Jim didn't escape, he becomes very angry. He says that they have to let Jim go because he is free. He explains that when Miss. Watson died, she set Jim free in her will. Suddenly, Aunt Polly arrives. She explains that Tom is Huckleberry Finn and Sid is really tom to Aunt Sally.
Finally, Jim is set free and Tom gives him forty dollars for being such a good and patient prisoner. Jim reminds Huck about Jim’s hairy chest. He says that he knew that one day he would be rich. Tom says that they should all go for an adventure. Huckleberry says that unfortunately, he doesn’t have any money- his pap probably took it all by now. Tom says that that isn't true- all the money is still there. Jim tells Huck that his pap isn't coming back no more. Huck asks why. Jim tells him that when they found the dead body in the floating house, it was Huck’s Pap. That is why Jim didn't let Huck see him.
The next day, tom is brought back on a mattress by the doctor and a bunch of other people who have Jim with his hands tied behind his back. The doctor tells about how helpful Jim was to the doctor. He says that they should be kind to him because when the doctor said that he needed help, Jim appeared to help him. Later, when Tom is in bed, Huckleberry visits him. Tom asks how Jim is. He doesn’t realize at first that Jim had been captured again. Aunt Sally comes in and Tom tells her about how they did such a great job rescuing Jim and how hard it was. When Tom realizes that Jim didn't escape, he becomes very angry. He says that they have to let Jim go because he is free. He explains that when Miss. Watson died, she set Jim free in her will. Suddenly, Aunt Polly arrives. She explains that Tom is Huckleberry Finn and Sid is really tom to Aunt Sally.
Finally, Jim is set free and Tom gives him forty dollars for being such a good and patient prisoner. Jim reminds Huck about Jim’s hairy chest. He says that he knew that one day he would be rich. Tom says that they should all go for an adventure. Huckleberry says that unfortunately, he doesn’t have any money- his pap probably took it all by now. Tom says that that isn't true- all the money is still there. Jim tells Huck that his pap isn't coming back no more. Huck asks why. Jim tells him that when they found the dead body in the floating house, it was Huck’s Pap. That is why Jim didn't let Huck see him.