Huckleberry Finn Chapter Summary

The book begins when Huck introduces himself to the reader as a character from Mark Twain’s earlier novel [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer] He elaborates on the end of the novel, explaining how Tom and he became rich after finding the robber’s cache of gold. Furthermore, Huck states that he now lives with the Widow Douglas, an automatic woman, and her devout sister, Miss Watson. Huck says that he does not like the “civilized” lifestyle the widow inflicts on him, yet he manages. As huck lives his life, one day, his “Pap”reappears and demands him for the loot and his consent for legal custody. Although the village tried everything they could, it appeared to be that Huck’s father would win, however, he kidnapped him, and dragged him across the Mississippi

On the island, he finds a man named Jim, a slave owned by Miss Watson, he ran away after he overheard her plans to sell him. One night after a foggy storm hit and a steamboat plunged into their raft, separating him and Jim, Huck finds himself waking up on an Aristocratic family’s porch. After hearing that Jim is hiding in the used to be broken, now repaired raft, he rejoices and forgets about the Aristocratic family [Grangerson’s] drama about their children and eloping. On the run, Huck and Jim find two men [The Duke and The King] in need. After tricking them both with a sob story and taking their raft, The Duke and The King sell Jim to a local farmer (and be brought in for a reward and Jim’s execution) Huck arrives at the Phelps farm where he meets Aunt Sally, whom Huck tricks into thinking that Huck is a family member she was expecting, named Tom, ironically, she has actually been Tom Sawyer’s aunt. Along the way, Huck and Tom intersect, they devise a plan to save Jim. Upon the next dusk, the trio makes a successful break for the Mississippi River. Everything was going according to plan until the group realized that Tom was shot in the leg by one of their