Huck Finn Chapter 1 Summary

His father yells at him for being able to read and go to school. He dislikes how Huck is trying to be better than he will ever be. Huck is forced to move in with his father in a cabin away from the Widow Douglas and Mrs. Watson. Hucks dad continues to torment him and take money for alcohol. One night Huck’s father is so drunk he almost kills Huck, in defense he holds a gun all night just to be safe. With no other way out, Huck fakes his death by making it look like Pap killed him and runs away without telling anybody. This stop is significant for Huck because it reminds him of what his old life was like. Just as he was starting to like his new life and getting used to being civilized, he had to revert back to his old ways. Finally, this stop showed that Huck was so desperate to get away from his father that the only thing he could think of doing was to fake his own

Jim is a runaway slave. He lived on Jackson’s island across the river from where the community he was originally at. By being a runaway slave, Jim is breaking the law. He is owned by another human, Miss Watson. Jim is considered the legal material property of another person. Huck rejects this legal law, and agrees to help Jim break the law by escaping. Huck is shocked at himself for doing this and even believes he will go to hell for his actions. But Huck decides to choose friendship over what society tells him to do. When Huck and Jim are on the adventure down the Mississippi, their friendship grows stronger and stronger. They depend on each other to survive. Huck attempts to turn in Jim. When Huck and Jim came to the shore by a town. Huck gets off and looks for someone to report Jim. However, Huck runs into some white people wanting to capture runaway slaves. They Huck if he had any others in the boat with him. Huck get scared for Jim and told them that there was his mom, dad and sister in the boat and they all had small pox. By doing this, Huck puts his heart ahead of his head. Huck and Jim returns to St. Petersburg. Jim gets to be free, although Huck doesn’t realize that. Huck saw Jim in a building thinking that Jim was now a slave that couldn’t leave the plantation. So he got Tom Sawyer and then Tom wanted to plan out a way to get Jim out. The plan that Tom had was ridiculous because they could just walk in and take Jim away. Huck tried to point that out to Tom but, as stubborn as Tom is, they did Tom’s plan. A while later, they finally got Jim

Huckleberry’s life is changed and influenced by Tom Sawyer, the widow, his father, Miss Watson, and Jim. Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry’s best friend, is a wild imagination often caused trouble for him and others. Throughout the book, Huck questions what he is doing, and wonders if Tom would do the same. He almost always decides Tom would agree with his decisions and be on his side. When Huck’s life completely turns around, he receives thousands of dollars and a place to stay with a widow from town.

He has a father who is abusive as well as an alcoholic, which is why two older ladies by the names of Miss. Watson and Widow Douglas watch over and care for him. The concept of a journey to freedom is portrayed through Huck due to him leaving home as a young boy and seeking for independence. In chapter eleven, Huck dresses up as a girl to go steal food and other items from a home for Jim and himself. “My mother’s down sick, and out of money and everything…” (62). Huck lied to a woman just to steal things from her home to survive because he was running away to become free. "It didn't take me long, though, to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all..." (40). This is ironic because Huck is noticing that the King and the Duke are con men and liars, but Huck himself is just like them because he lies to people all the time to better himself and get to freedom. Huck has to go through many disadvantages as well as Jim, on their journey to

They then find the robbers' skiff and immediately take off in it. Later they see the wrecked steamship floating downstream. Along with it find their original raft, and continue down the river with both the raft and the canoe. As Jim and Huck continue floating downstream they start to become better friends but Huck feels confused about helping a slave. Their goal is to reach Cairo, where they can get a steamship that will take them up the Ohio River and into a free state. Unfortunately during a dense fog, while Huck is in the canoe and Jim in the raft, they become separated. When they find each other in the morning, it soon becomes clear that during the fog, they passed Cairo because they can see the murky waters of the Ohio River. A few nights later, a steamboat runs over the raft, which forces Huck and Jim to jump overboard. From this they are separated again as they swim for their lives. Huck reaches the shore and gets surrounded by dogs. He manages to escape and is invited to live with a family he came across called the Grangerford's. While at the Grangerford home Huck is treated well and finds Jim hiding in a nearby

In chapter one, the first person narrator, Huckleberry Finn, introduces himself and talks to the readers about his appearance in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. He then summarizes how that book ends, where is that he and his pal Tom found gold that robbers had hidden in a cave. Huck lives with the Widow Douglas who wants him to be civilized and respectable, which Huck doesn't like. The widow tries to conform Huck to religion. The widow lives with her sister Miss Watson who tries to teach Huck spell. Tom appears outside Huck's window that night and meows, and climbs out of his bedroom window and sneak away with Tom. In chapter two, Huck and Tom are trying to sneak away from the house. They come across Miss Watson's slave,

After Huckleberry Finn and Jim have been on the river in hopes of finding Cairo for a couple of days, Huck stops on shore to get some berries, but as he pulls the canoe onto land, out of nowhere comes “a couple of men tearing up the path as tight as they could foot it” (95). The two men claim to be the Duke of Bridgewater and the son of King Louis XVI and they are getting chased by a mob of townspeople and beg Huck to let them onto the canoe so they could escape. This encounter leads to many events that take Jim and Huck away from their quest for freedom. At one point, Huck and Jim finally have an opportunity to get away from the duke and the king, so the boys cut the canoe loose and start paddling down the Mississippi River but when Huckleberry turns around, he sees the two royalties “just a-laying to their oars and making their skiff hum!” (163). Even though they do not escape the hands of the frauds at this point in the novel, Huck sees both the King and the Duke tarred and feathered in chapter twenty- eight and he finally is relieved that he will never have to bother with those two men

Huck, unlike Tom, is gifted with a better conscience and quickly learns his lesson after he sees how it makes Jim feel but that takes a while. They play many evil tricks on him and they make Jims escapement from the farmers shed a game. After a while and a few incidents

Later on in the story, Huck finds out that some slave hunters are searching for Jim. Huck

Huck Finn decides to go back to the Widow Douglas even after being offered to be in Tom Sawyer’s “band of robbers”, which characterizes Huck as a person who can make good decisions. Even though Huck decides to go back to the Widow Douglas, as soon as he returns, he begins complaining about the Widow’s way of civilizing him. “She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn’t do

Then, his father takes him to his cabin, but Huck doesn't like it there either. Then, he fakes his death and runs away to an island where he finds Jim. Later he and Jim go down the river where they find the duke and the king who lie to them so they try to run away from the king and the duke.

Throughout the book, Huck narrates about his personal experiences and his life while floating down the river with his runaway friend, Jim. But although

Huck goes back to living with the Widow Douglas, a widow that took him into her care after he found all the money with Tom. Huck is living a normal boy’s life but wants to return backs to the woods when one night his dad, who is a crazy drunk, shows up in his room. Huck’s dad began to harass him for some of his money to buy drinks but many of the town folks were on Huck’s side and helped protect him. Eventually his dad kidnaps him and keeps him in a shed that he lives in locked up whenever he goes out. Huck gets fed up with being captive and one day when his dad leaves he stages and fakes his own murder and steals a canoe and goes to stay on Jackson Island, an island in the middle of the Missouri river. The townsfolk go looking for him but concluded he is dead and believe that either his father or Jim ,who recently ran away, killed him. Huck discovers someone else is on the island and finds out it is Jim. They begin to live together and one day discover a house floating down the river after a huge storm. There is a dead body in it and they decide to take what they can from the house and leave. Later Huck goes into town dressed up as a girl and discovers that someone is on the island looking for Jim. He rushes back and both him and Jim begin their float down the river. While floating down the river they run into many thing. In one incident some men come along looking for runaway

Huck then escapes from his father and finds Jim on a remote island, and the two travel down the Mississippi. While Jim is akin to family for Huck, he doesn’t completely see Jim as family, evident by his internal dilemma on whether to turn in Jim or not. He “knows it is illegal to be harboring a runaway slave”, but he also wants to help Jim out of friendship (Cyclopedia of Literary

Huck and Jim steal the boat that the robbers had brought, and they go to find their raft, after which, they go through the possessions the robbers had taken and find many riches, which leads to a discussion about kings, and following that, they sail away on their raft, but encounter thick fog, causing them to be separated, but later reunited, and shortly after that, they are hit by a steamboat and separated again, and when Huck is calling for Jim, he gets no