Huck Finn Chapter 18-17 Summary

He walks along the garden and sees someone’s tracks on the snow. When examining the tracks, Huck saw that it was a cross made out of nails, to keep off the devil. This startled Huck, so he left. He then went to Judge Thatcher, where the judge wants to give him his interest. Huck refuses and tells the judge to keep all of it. Judge Thatcher is surprised, but ultimately he accepts.

When two men looking for runaway slaves approach Huck he had to decide Jim's future. Luckily for Jim Huck decided not to tell the men about Jim. So said his pap had small pox so the men stay away from their raft. After this Huck still felt guilty.

He then ends up in the Grangerfords household, they ask him abounch of questions seeing if he is a Shepherdson. The grangerfords realize that he is not a Sheperson and welcome him into their home. Huck befriends the Grangerfords son named Buck, he tells Huck that they have had a fued with the Shephersons for a long time. One day a battle broke out between the two families because a grangerford daughter and Shperhson son ran away together. Mr Grangerford and his two brothers were gunned down, and buck and his brother were being shot at. Huck watches buck and a boy be ambushed by shepherdsons on top of a tree. Huck is emotionally hurt by bucks death, They were becoming really good friends and he had to watch him be killed. Additionally, this event is significant because Huck sees how the Grangerfords treated him so well and they didn’t deserve the death that came to them. When Huck see Bucks body in the river he has to cover it up because it is the least he could do for him after all buck did for him. At this oint I believe Huck thinks their journey cant get much worse than it already is, he has witnessed death and disappointment too

This young boy’s name is Huckleberry Finn, and he is brave and yearning for adventure. He begins the story with a newly acquired fortune, but goes back to living in rags and in a barrel. Huckleberry is convinced by his best friend, Tom Sawyer, to go back to living with “The Widow” so that he can join Tom’s newly created band of robbers. The Widow Douglas is a woman who takes Huckleberry as her son and does her best to “sivilize” him: teaching him how to behave and forcing him to go to school. Huckleberry slips off and joins “The Tom Sawyer Gang” and pretends to rob people for about a month before he resigns. All this time, Huckleberry is getting used to living with the widow, even admitting that he likes it a little bit. Then, one day, his father shows up, demanding his fortune and eventually taking him to his log cabin, hidden in the woods. There Huck hunts and fishes, but is not permitted to leave. Eventually, “pap got too handy with his hick’ry” so Huck escapes down the river when his father is drunk. Huck hides on Jackson’s Island and meets Jim, The Widow’s slave. Huck learns that Jim had run away from The Widow and so they decide to help each other out. But when Huck learns of a plan to search the island, they leave down the river. Several days later, they almost run into some robbers on a wrecked steamboat and manage to escape with their loot. When Huck and Jim land on the bank

The next morning Pap finds Huck with the gun and remembers nothing about the previous night. When Pap questions him about the gun, Huck says that he has been lying in wait because he thought someone was trying to get in the cabin. Asked why he did not try to wake him, Huck replies that he did try, but could not rouse him.Huck is asked by his father to go out and check if there are any fish on the line. This gives Huck the opportunity to look for a raft or logs floating by in the river. To his good fortune, he sees a canoe floating down the river. He swims to it, brings it ashore, and hides it to help in his escape. When he returns to the cabin and is scolded by his father for being lazy, Huck tells him that he accidentally fell into the river.

1. How does Huck solve the problem of forgetting his name? Bets Buck that he can't spell his name, and does, so then he knows his name - George Jackson

“why, pap and mam and sis and Miss Hooker; and if you’d take your ferryboat and go up there-”( 77). This scene shows how selfless Huck is because he tries to save the gang members even if they were murders, and he thinks about what if he was in their shoes, what if he becomes a murderer and he is about to crash on a ship and die, so he decides to save the men. When Huck plays a trick on Jim that he drowned in the middle of the night. Huck got himself in a canoe and made it seemed like the river took him away. He told Jim that it was just a dream and Jim felt relieved and thankful, but after Jim showed how

Following Huck’s escape from his father’s cabin, Huck escapes with Jim, rafting the Mississippi while he becomes his older self who helps others, a sharp contrast to the kidnapped Huck who only aided himself. When Huck encounters Judith Loftus, he lies, telling her that he is a girl by the name of Sarah Mary Williams, and later that he is a runaway apprentice called George Peters (69). Huck continues lying for himself, reflecting the depth of Huck’s descent while with his father; however, the lie also helps Jim, so Huck displays a tiny amount of selflessness. Farther down the river, Huck lies to several men and tells them that Jim is a white man who has smallpox (101). By this point in the story, Huck begins lying to help others such as Jim, not just himself. He slowly loses the overwhelming desire to protect only himself that he developed while with his father. Huck

Huck is spending more time with Jim and he is forming a close relationship with him. Huck is forming feelings for a slave he says, “Well, I warn't long making him understand I warn't dead. I was ever so glad to see Jim. I warn't lonesome now. I told him

Huck narrates about his personality which in turn directly gives the reader a look at his

After a long raft-ride, Huck and Jim are finally about to reach Cairo, which on their arrival would make Jim free. With the smell of freedom, Jim rambles on about how he would buy his wife and then steal his children. This sets off a spark in Huck, igniting his conscience and making him very uneasy. Huck couldn't believe that Jim would steal property from a man that hadn't done him any harm. Huck then begins feeling guilty about helping Jim escape from Miss Watson, since she had never done anything to him and didn't deserve for Jim to be stolen from her. At his departure for the town, on a mission to turn Jim in, Jim leaves Huck with these words. " Pooty soon I'll be a shout'n' for joy, en I'll say say, it's all on accounts o' Huck; I's a free man, en I couldn't ever ben free ef it hadn't it ben for Huck; Huck done it. Jim won't ever forgit you, Huck; you's de bes' fren' Jim's ever had; en you's de only fren' ole Jim's got now". (pg.86-87) Hearing these words, Huck realizes how much Jim's friendship means to him and decides not to turn in Jim. Finally, the last test of Huck's conscience comes when he finds out that the "king" and the "duke" have sold Jim. Huck gets to thinking about how wrong he was to help Jim escape, and decides he should write a letter to Miss Watson. He then changes his mind, seeing that Jim would be worse off as a runaway slave because he would be treated horribly, and Huck

When the King goes to feel out one of the towns to see if the people of that particular town has heard of the fraud of a show that he and the Duke had been putting on Huck is planning his and Jim’s escape. Huck at this point knows that the King is actually going into the town to look for more people’s houses to rob. The Duke is visibly agitated for some reason and Huck senses it. When Huck and the Duke go into the town to look for the King he is obviously drunk. Huck runs as soon as he sees an opportunity to lose the King and the Duke. Huck thinks he and Jim are finally free only to find that Jim is gone. When Huck realizes Jim is gone and he cannot find him he actually cries. We see the emotional attachment and bond that Jim has formed with Jim. When Huck comes across a young boy who tells him of how a runaway slave was caught and he learns that he was caught because the Duke and the King tricked them. Following this encounter Huck is upset. The first reason he seems upset is because he was turned in by the hands of people he thought he was helping but the most ironic reason for his anger

family who brought him in for a little. During his brief stay there, Huck learns of a rivalry between two families via a boy about his age who he befriends. Shortly thereafter, that boy, Buck, was killed and Huck feels sorrow for the boy and never returns to the Grangerford house.

Huck is caught between Jim’s behavior and his own conscience as he is faced with the struggle of whether or not to turn in his friend, who is actually a run away slave, in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry

In the beginning Huck never really knew what a true friend was, and then he went on a journey with Jim, a runaway slave. For a while, Huck has thoughts about turning in Jim and having him sent back to Miss Watson. However, he always remembers how nice Jim is to him. Huck said that he would not tell anyone that Jim had runaway and in return Jim was willing to protect and help Huck. Jim would even give up his sleep just because he wanted to let Huck continue to sleep. That was not the only thing Jim did for Huck either. When the house floated by and the two saw a body laying inside it dead, Jim went in to see what was in the house and found that it was Huck's father that was dead. Jim covered the body so Huck did not realize that his father had been killed. Through just these two actions made by Jim, Huck learns one of the most valuable life lessons: true friendship.