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Chapter Summary: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Fin

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Tyler Restine Mrs. Briscoe DC English 09 April 2018 In class writing assignment #3 In the novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin” it starts out with a boy named Huck and his father is a very abusive, drunken, bum father. Huck doesn’t want to live with his father so he goes and lives with another family that teaches him good morals and goes to church but the family doesn’t know Huck has money stored away in a bank. As time goes on Hucks father come to the town where he is residing and tries to steal all of Hucks money out of the bank but Huck doesn’t want to go back and live with his drunken father so he faked his death and runs away to a nearby island. On the island he meets a runaway slave named Jim,

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