Huck Finn notes

NOTES ON HUCKLEBERRY FINN CHAPTER 1 huck Finn reminds the readers that he has already appe bed in a book ab by turkey cock Sawyer c solelyed The Adventures of gobbler Sawyer. This book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. in that location was things which he stretched, exclusively when when mainly he told the truth. He reminds us that at the end of that book, he and Tom had turn everyplacet sextet thousand dollars apiece. Since then(prenominal), the Widow Douglas has been nerve-wrac fag to civilize hucka tail, and try come forth Thatcher has invested the capital for him, conveying a dollar a twenty-four hour period in interest.

The leaves sister, mis conjure Wat news, likewise lives in the augury, and she is forever pic fairy at hucka certify, trying to handstion him do things her way. Unlike the Widow Douglas, who is flesh and patient with huckaback, Miss Watson is sharp and nagging. Her insistent interference makes huck resent home life and its restraints. They wont take down let him smoke.

huckaback is so disgusted with home life that he incidentally kills a spider, and he realises that this act is bound to bring grim luck to him. However, as he sits and smokes, he hears Tom Sawyers secret call. huck puts go forth the light, slides to the ground, and gos Tom waiting for him among the trees.CHAPTERS 2 and 3As huck joins Tom Sawyer in the garden, he accidentally trips oer a root and alerts Miss Watsons slave, Jim, to the fact that well-nighthing unusual is happening. Jim sits over whileipulate on the ground between Tom and huckaback, and he would devote go baded them if he had not gone to sleep. Tom then plays a trick on Jim -a trick which multiplies in surface as Jim specialises the trading floor after he awakes. With each telling, the story becomes to a greater extent than fanciful until Jim becomes the most envied Negro in the village.

Tom and huck meet fewer an opposite(prenominal) male childs, and Tom wants to stand up a band of robbers. From the divers(prenominal) pirate-books and robber-books that Tom has read, he binds the members of his crime syndicate to exither with a beautiful oath and then makes plans to smash stages and carriages on the road, with masks on, and kill the wad and take their watches and notes. Tom overly wants to kidnap people and then hold them for ransom, scarce zip knows what a ransom is. It is almost daylight to begin with huck creeps back through his window with his new turn all greased up and clayey. . . . subsequently receiving a ingest words from Miss Watson, huck is to a fault instructed in religion by the old maid, b bely he cant make any signified out of her type of sermonizing. About this time, a drowned organic structure has been found and piece of musicy people think it is hucks pap, save huckaback knows that he couldnt be that lucky. Unfortunately, he knows that his father would show up once again or so day even though he hasnt been around for over a year.

For to the grittyest degree a month, the boys play robbers until huck and all the other boys resign, for, by then, they have neither robbed nor killed anyone but only just pretended. The romantic Tom argues with the realistic Huck astir(predicate) the value of make-believe and the importance of magicians, genies, and the like. Huck tests the hypothesis of genies by require offting an old lamp, rubbing it for hours, and making distend plans for the genie. simply when no genies appear, he loses faith in it and similarly questions Tom Sawyers assertions.

CHAPTERS 4 5          afterward three or four months, during which time he attends school and learns to read and write, Huck sees some signs which suggest that his pap is back in town. Fearing his pap, he goes to judge Thatcher and asks if on that point is any money from the invest handsts. The judge tells him the amount, and Huck wants to give it to the judge. Leaving the judge confused, Huck goes to have Jim visit his hair-ball to discover Hucks fortune. Hucks fears of his fathers return are justified because that night when he went to his inhabit, there coterie pap, his own self! titmouse stands before Huck smell vicious and mean. He curses Huck out for trying to get some education, for wearing nice clothes, and for the chance that someday he might want to get some religion. He get out not tolerate the idea of his son improving himself and trying to be better than his own father. He forces Huck to give him the dollar which he had gotten from judge Thatcher and goes to get some whiskey with it. He tries to bully judge Thatcher into give him the rest of Hucks money, but the judge refuses. He then goes to judicature to get custody of Huck, and even though the Widow Douglas and the judge oppose it, a new judge gives the custody of the boy to his father. pap promises to reform with the aid of the new judge, but the gain is short lived. Soon Pap trades his new coat for a jug of whiskey, gets inebriated, rolls off the porch, and breaks his left arm in ii bunss. The new judge gives up on Pap.CHAPTERS 6 7         Huck is now determined to prolong with his schooling, partly to appal his pap, who thrashes Huck either time he can generate him. When Pap hangs around the Widow Douglas syndicate as well a lot, she threatens him. To get even with her, he kidnaps Huck and takes him across the river to a confine in the woodwind instrument where he keeps Huck locked up every time he leaves. Soon Huck gets used to lively in the woods and has no desire to return to the widow and sivilization. The worse thing well-nigh living in the woods is that Pap beats Huck quite frequently and sometimes leaves him locked up in the confine for as long as three days. Once when Pap returns from town, he is so d numerationk that he almost kills Huck. It is then that Huck make ups that he has to come upon some way to escape-to avoid being killed.

The next day Huck discovers a boat which he hides in the on a lower floorbrush. When Pap catches some logs, he immediately leaves for town in evidence to sell them. Huck takes out a saw that he had hid, finishes sawing a hole in the wall, and then loads his canoe with provisions. He then shoots a wild pig, smashes the door of the cabin and scatters the pigs line of business all over the place. He pulls out some of his own hair and sticks it on the back of the bloody axe, thereby giving the impression that he has been murdered. He then goes to the canoe and waits until dark. After a nap, he heads across the river for jacksons Island, barely escaping staining from Pap, who is returning home.

CHAPTERS 8 9         The next day, Huck knows that his plan was a success when he sees a ferryboat fill up with the important people of the town searching for his body. A ricochet which is fired to make the body come to the surface almost kills Huck, and a loaf of bread which is supposed to lead them to the body floats to Hucks hiding place and he eats it for his breakfast.

After they leave, Huck is left alone on the island for three days and nights and begins to get lonesome. On the third day, he discovers the remains of a inner circle fire. Huck is frightened and paddles over to the Illinois shore, but fearing discovery from some travelers, he returns and keeps watch over the place where he discovered the ashes. Soon, Miss Watsons Jim appears and Huck is shockingly glad to see him. intellection Huck is curtly, Jim is frightened by Hucks ghost. Huck tells him that he isnt on the spur of the moment, and they speak about their adventures. Jim confesses to Huck that he has run away because Miss Watson was about to sell him follow through south. Huck promises not to tell on Jim, even though people would call me a low gloomy Ablitionist and despise me for keeping mum. .

During the next few days, Jim and Huck move their supplies to a cavern at the abstract of the hill on jacksons Island. They spend their days collecting various things on the river that have floated loose because of the rising river water. Among the choice possessions they break is a large sight twelve feet wide and cardinal or sixteen feet long.

superstar night, they see a devil-story form place float by. They catch up with it and climb on board to see if they can name any useful articles. plot of ground there, they discover a dead man who had been shot in the back. Jim readily books some rags over the corpse so that Huck wont have to see this gruesome sight. They load their canoe with all the worth mend stuff in the cabin and head back to Jacksons Island.

CHAPTERS 10 11 After breakfast, Huck wants to talk about the dead man, but Jim refuses to do so, saying that it might bring them bad luck. The bad luck comes in terms of a practical joke which Huck plays on Jim. He kills a rattlesnake and curls it up at the foot of jims bed, thinking it impart be fun to watch jims reaction when he sees it. But the rattlesnakes ally crawls up around the dead one and when Jim returns, the mate bites him. Huck realizes that it happens because he was such a fool as to not remember that wherever you leave a dead snake its mate always comes there and curls around it. Huck quickly throws the ii snakes away before Jim can discover what happened. Jim is sick for four days and nights before he recovers. After a few days, Huck becomes restless and wants to know what is dismission on in town. Jim advises him to dress up like a girl in some of the clothes that they salvaged from the floating house. He heads out for the shore and, in town, he visualizes a house of a woman who is a newcomer. He decides to talk with this woman, trying hard to remember that he is a girl.

Huck identifies himself as Sarah Williams and, as he talks with the lady, he learns of the gossip and rumors attached with the separate disappearances of Huck and Jim. Although the lady has lived in the town only dickens weeks, she is already well informed in feign to the different theories of the supposed murder of Huck and the disappearance of Jim. The deuce murder suspects are Jim and Pap. Some people think that Pap did it in order to get Hucks money without twainering with a lawsuit. Others think that Jim did it, since he ran away the same night that Huck disappeared. in that location is a three-hundred dollar support offered for Jim and a two-hundred dollar reward for Pap.

When Huck hears the lady say that she has seen smoke on jacksons Island and that her married man is going over to see if he could capture Jim, Huck becomes so anxious that he forgets that he is a girl. victimisation several basic tests, the lady currently discovers that Huck is a boy. Huck then suits that he is in disguise and invents other story about his escape from a hard master and his flight to Goshen. He is promptly informed, however, that this is not Goshen; it is St. Petersburg. He convinces her that soulfulness has played a trick on him and leaves as soon as possible.

After Huck leaves, he goes as quickly as possible back to jacksons Island, starts a fire in the old camp site, then goes to find Jim. When he comes upon Jim, he tells him to get ready quickly because Theyre after us! Since their vision is already loaded, it takes only a few minutes to leave, and they seafaring on the shady stead of the island until they have passed the foot of the island.

CHAPTERS 12 13 It is almost one oclock before they get down the stairs the island. At daybreak they tie the plenty to a tow-head on the Illinois side which is covered with trees and crotch haires so that they are valueed from sight. here they can watch the steamboats go by. Huck tells Jim about the conference with the lady in the cabin and how he built the fire to make the men stay there to catch Jim when he returned.

Jim builds a tent in the middle of the raft for fortress from the weather. He and Huck also make an extra focal point oar for emergencies. For five nights they travel down the river, lying on their backs and flavor at the stars. Every night, Huck slips ashore for provisions. Five nights under St. Louis, they encounter a big storm and they board a wrack steamboat, even though Jim tries to dissuade Huck from boarding it.

Once on the steamboat, they see a light down the texashall and overhear a conversation between two robbers, Jake Packard and Bill, who are about to murder an accomplice, Jim food turner, because he threatened to inform on them. At this point, Huck has to crawl into a stateroom on the amphetamine side to keep from being detected. The thieves accidentally follow him into the room but Huck is able to hide from them. Packard argues that instead of murdering Turner they should take their boat ashore and leave Jim Turner on the wreck which provide break up in two hours and wash down the river. Huck goes back to tell Jim and to set the robbers boat adrift so that the men cannot get away. At this point, Jim reveals that the raft has broken loose in the storm, and they are also stranded.

Huck and Jim look for and find the boat (skifo that the robbers arrived in. just as they are about to board the skiff, Packard and Bill appear, arguing about the money which they left in Jim Turners pocket. They decide to go back and get it. Huck and Jim then jump into the boat, cut the leash and escape, leaving all three cutthroats stranded on the miscarry boat.

Before they are able to notify anyone about the wrecked boat, a summer storm comes up and a rack of lightning reveals their raft floating ahead of them. They recapture it, and Jim guides the raft while Huck follows in the skiff until they see the lights of a village on a hillside. Huck startles the sleeping watchman of a ferryboat and relates one of his stories designed to force the watchman to rescue the people on the wrecked boat. Artfully giving the impression that the niece of the richest man in town is on the boat, Huck influences the watchmen to rescue the cutthroats.

In a few minutes, the wreck comes floating along. It is so inscrutable in the water that Huck knows that no one could salvage be alive, but he paddles around it and hollers. After comprehend no sound, Huck gives up and goes to catch up with Jim. By now, it is daylight and they pull to shore and sleep like dead people. CHAPTER 14 When Huck and Jim awaken, they examine the loot which the robbers took from the wreck and find all sorts of valuable things, along with many books which Huck reads to Jim. The books consider tales of kings and dukes and earls and their many adventures in life. The only figure familiar to Jim is fag Sollermum, who was not a swell person, in jims opinion, because King Solomon would have divided a child into two parts. Huck tries to explain the story of King Solomon to Jim, but Jim will not throw his opinion. Furthermore, the entire concept of anyone speaking a language different from English is also astonishing to Jim who thinks that if a Frenchman is a man then he should speak like a man.

CHAPTERS 15 16         In three more nights, Huck and Jim bide to reach Cairo, where they will sell the raft and catch a steamboat up the Ohio River. On the moment night, however, there is so much fog that Huck takes the canoe and tries to find a place for them to tie up. Because of the swift current, the raft floats by and Huck cannot find Jim and the raft. He searches until he is exhausted and then falls sleepyheaded.

When he awakens, he sees the raft smashed by, filled with leaves and all sorts of trash, and Jim is asleep from worry and exhaustion. Huck slips onto the raft and when Jim finally wakes up, Huck tries to make him think that they have never been separated and that Jim dreamed everything that happened to them. When he has Jim almost convinced that it was all a dream, he asks Jim to regard the dream-which Jim does; next, Huck asks him to interpret all the trash and branches on the raft. thusly Jim realizes the truth and tells Huck that trash is people ... dat puts diddlysquat on de head er dey frens en makes em ashamed. Huck apologizes to Jim and vows to himself that he will never play a trick on Jim again.

Jim knows that they must be close to Cairo and therefore close to freedom, and he begins to talk about his freedom in a jubilant manner. Suddenly Hucks conscience begins to trouble him because he knows that he is helping someone elses property to escape.



But then Jim says that if the proprietor of his children will not sell Jim his children, then he will get an abolitionist to help steal them. This is almost more than Huck can stand, and he knows suddenly that he is doing an awful thing in helping Jim to escape, and he resolves to slip ashore and tell. As he takes a canoe to go tell, Jim calls out that he will never forget what a reasoned friend Huck has been to him.

When Huck meets some men looking for some runaway slaves, he cannot bring himself to betray Jim. instead, he creates a story about his father on the raft having smallpox, and the men become frightened and give Huck money with instructions that he should never let it be know that his father has smallpox when he is seeking help. After the men leave, Huck feels again that he has done wrong, but it is too much bother to do right.

Later, Huck and Jim try to find out if they have passed Cairo, and when they see the clear water of the Ohio, they know that they have already passed the town. They go to the canoe so as to paddle back upstream, but the canoe has disappeared. As they continue downstream, a steamboat approaches them and, before they can get out of its way, the boat smashes directly into the raft. Jim goes overboard on one side and Huck on the other. Huck stays underwater until the thirty-foot wheel has passed over him. Soon the boat is churning along upstream again, but Huck cannot find Jim. He goes ashore alone, where he finds dogs barking in front of a large house.

CHAPTERS 17 18         At the house, Huck is forced to identify himself He tells the man confronting him that he is George Jackson and that he fell overboard from a strait steamboat. He invents another fantastic story which the people believe. This house belongs to a wealthy landowner, whose youngest child is accuse, about Hucks age. The two boys persona a bedroom together and soon become equitable friends.The house is furnished in a manner that impresses Huck, but of special interest to him are the crayon drawings made by Emmeline Grangerford, who died when she was fourteen. Most of the drawings are of rather morbid subjects. Her attempts at song about dead people are also rated high by her relatives and by Huck. On the whole, Huck is very capacitance to be here since there is so much good food.

plot of ground living with the Grangerfords, Huck is impressed by their ingenuity and mode of living. Every member of the family has a Negro servant, including Huck. The only other aristocratic family is named Shepherdson and, one day while Huck and Buck are walking, Buck jumps behind a bush and shoots at young Harney Shepherdson. Huck is confused, and Buck explains that the two families are having a feud. Since Huck has never heard of a feud, Buck has to explain that it is a type of quarrel in which everyone on one side wants to kill everyone on the other side until by and by everybodys killed off, and there aint no more feud. This finical feud has been going on for thirty years and everyone has disregarded how it started.

One day when Huck is delivering a,-nessage for Miss Sophia Grangerford, his servant takes hi.., down to the river. There he discovers Jim in hiding. Jim has been collecting material and preparing the raft for the day when he and Huck can continue their journey.

With the fellowship that Miss Sophia has run off with Harney Shepherdson, the feud breaks out with more intensity. So many Grangerfords and Shepherdsons are killed that Huck is sorry that he ever came on shore. He escapes as quickly as possible, rejoins Jim, and they continue their journey down the river.

CHAPTERS 19 20          twain or three days and nights slide by as they travel by night and hide by day. One morning about daybreak, Huck finds a canoe, crosses to the main shore, and paddles up a creek looking for berries. Suddenly he hears two men being pursued by dogs and other men are following the dogs. When the pursued men beg Huck to save them, he quickly tells them the best way to throw the dogs off their scent.

One man is 70 and bald the other is about thirty. They are not acquainted but both were run out of the town because of their efforts to defraud the citizens by cheating, quackery, and other fraudulent schemes. Once on the raft, the youngest claims to be the rightful Duke of Bridgewater. After Huck and Jim hear his sad story, they begin to treat him with respect. The elder man then tells them that he is the lost Dauphin of France. Huck, however, is not deceived and knows that the two are nothing more than humbugs and frauds. They question Huck about the presence of Jim on the raft and are temporarily comfortable when Huck assures them that a runaway slave would never run south. Huck then invents another fantastic story to protect both Jim and himself.

The two frauds soon appropriate both beds in the wigwam, leaving Jim and Huck out in the rain. By this time, even Jim doesnt want any more kings and dukes to appear. The two frauds pool their resources and decide to rehearse a Shakespearian presentation of Romeo and Juliet, letting the seventy-year-old king play the part of Juliet. When the raft stops for provisions close to a small town, the king wanders into a camp collision where he pretends to be a reformed pirate in need of money to go back and reform the other pirates. By this ruse, he is able to collect eighty-seven dollars and seventy cents.

Meanwhile, the duke goes to a, printing office where he cheats the owner out of niner dollars and, at the same time, prints a handbill describing Jim as a runaway slave from forty miles below New Orleans. If anyone questions them, they will simply say that they are returning Jim for the reward.

CHAPTERS 21 22 23         The king and the duke begin to rehearse for the Shakespearean achievement which they will present in some town along the river. When they arrive in a small Arkansas town, there is already a circus there. The duke distributes his advertisements of the show throughout the town.

         man Huck is lounging around the town, a person named Boggs comes in from the rural for his little old monthly drunk. Everybody laughs at him as he proclaims drunkenly that he is there to kill old Colonel Sherburn. While the townspeople are assuring Huck that Boggs is harmless, they are also sending for Boggs daughter to take care of him. However, before she arrives, Boggs continues to revilement Colonel Sherburn, who appears with a gun and shoots Boggs down in cold blood just as the daughter arrives.

        Led by a man named Buck Harkness, a mob gathers, gets drunk, and then goes to Colonel Sherburns house to lynch the murderer. The colonel calls them cowards and taunts them by saying that if any lynching is to be done, it will be done in the dark with a man, not half a man, as a leader. At the end of Colonel Sherburns speech, the crowd broke all apart and went tearing off every which way. Huck, intent on seeing the circus, dives under the tent and marvels at the color and action of it all. Later, since only twelve people attend the Shakespearean performance, the duke and the king change to a performance where ladies and children are not admitted, thus assuring themselves of a good turnout.

The show is, of course, a fraud and a cheat, but those seeing it the first night do not admit being taken in and advise their neighbors to see the second performance. The third night, both audiences return, ready to tar and feather the king and the duke, but the two con men catch on to the audiences intent and escape to the raft after having cheated the town out of four hundred and sixty-five dollars.

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