HUCK FINN PRESENTATIONS CHAPTER 1 PLOT HUCK AND

HUCK FINN PRESENTATIONS

CHAPTER 1 • PLOT: HUCK AND TOM GETTING THE MONEY THEY FIND IN THE CAVE, WIDOW DOUGLAS TAKES GUARDIANSHIP OF HUCK AND TRIES TO CIVILIZE HIM, THEY ARE TRYING TO GIVE HIM A RELIGIOUS EDUCATION (PRAYING, THANKING/LISTENING TOG OD) • QUOTE: “…ALLOWED SHE WOULD SIVILIZE ME, BUT IT WAS ROUGH LIVING IN THE HOUSE ALL THE TIME” (1)

CHAPTER 2 • PLOT: HUCK AND TOM PLAY A TRICK ONJ IM. JIM IS A CELEBRITY AMONGST THE SLAVES. THE “TOM SAWYER GANG” FORMS. THEY ARE GOING TO BE A GANG THAT ROBS AND MURDERS PEOPLE (KEEP WOMEN PRISONERS) • QUOTE: “JIM WAS MOST RUINED FOR A SERVANT, BECAUSE HE GOT STUCK UP ON ACCOUNT OF HAVING SEEN THE DEVIL AND BEEN RODE BY WITCHES” (6)

CHAPTER 3 • PLOT: MISS WATSON TRIES TO EXPLAIN PRAYERS TOH UCK. RUMOR THAT HUCK’S PA HAS BEEN FOUND DEAD, BUT IT LATER TURNS OUT TO BE A WOMAN DRESSED AS A MANT. HE GANG DISBANDS AFTER NO ROBBING OR MURDERING ACTUALLY HAPPENS. HUCK TELLS THE READER ABOUT GAME THEY PLAY WHERE THEY RAID PICNICS AND PRETEND THEY ARE RAIDING A CARAVAN OF ARABS AND SPANIARDS. • QUOTE: “I WENT AND TOLD THE WIDOW ABOUT IT, AND SHE SAID THE THING A BODY COULD GET BY PRAYING FOR IT WAS “SPIRITUAL GIFTS”. THIS WAS TOO MANY FOR ME…” (11)

CHAPTER 4 • PLOT: HUCK GOING TO SCHOOL AND ACCEPTING HIS RELIGIOUS AND SCHOOL EDUCATION. HE SEES THE BOOT WITH THE CROSS IN THE SNOW, GETSJ UDGE THATCHER TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE MONEY HE HAS. JIM HAS THE ORACLE OX HAIRBALL AND TELLSH UCK THAT THERE ARE TWO ANGELS SURROUNDING PA (ONE GOOD, ONE BAD), BUT THAT HUCK IS SAFE FOR RIGHT NOW. PA IS IN HUCK’S ROOM. • QUOTE: “I LIKED THE OLD WAYS BEST, BUT I WAS GETTING SO I LIKED THE NEW ONES TOO, A LITTLE BIT” (15).

CHAPTER 5 • PLOT: P : AP BECOMES DISTURBINGLY WHITE. PAP WONDERS OUT LOUD IF HUCK THINKS HIMSELF BETTER THAN HIS FATHER. PAP ASKS HUCK IF HE IS REALLY AS RICH AS HE HAS HEARD. HUCK IS CALLED A LIER WHEN HE SAYS HE HAS NO MONEY AND HIS PAP TAKES THE DOLLAR THAT THE JUDGE HAD GIVEN HIM. PAP BUYS WHISKEY WITH THE DOLLAR HE STOLE FROMH UCK. THE NEXT DAY, PAP COMES LOOKING FOR THE JUDGE DRUNK. PAP GETS THROWN IN JAIL. NEW JUDGE SAY THE ONLY WAY TO REFORM HIM IS WITH A SHOTGUN. • QUOTE: “I BORROWED THREE DOLLARS FROM JUDGE THATCHER, AND PAP TOOK IT AND GOT DRUNK, AND WENT A-BLOWING AROUND AND CUSSING AND WHOOPING AND CARRYING ON. ” ( PAGE 21)

CHAPTER 6 • PLOT: H : UCK’S FATHER TRIES TO TAKEJ UDGE THATCHER TO COURT FOR HUCK’S MONEY, TO NO AVAIL. SO HUCK’S FATHER TAKES TO BEATINGH UCK FOR GOING TO SCHOOL, AND WHEN THEW IDOW TELLS HIM TO BACK OFF, HE KIDNAPS HUCK AND TAKES HIM TO A CABIN A FEW MILES UPRIVER, WHERE HE LOCKS HUCK IN AND GOES INTO TOWN TO GET DRUNKO. NE NIGHT HE DRINKS SO MUCH THAT HE THINKSH UCK IS THE “ANGEL OF DEATH” AND TRIES TO KILLH UCK, WHO THEN AFTER HIS FATHER GOES TO SLEEP, GRABS THE GUN FOR PROTECTION • QUOTE: “. . . I DIDN’T SEE HOWI ’D EVER GOT TO LIKE IT SO WELL AT THE WIDOW’S” (24).

CHAPTER 7 • PLOT: HUCKLEBERRY F INN FINDS A DRIFT-CANOE AND DECIDES TO HIDE IT FOR LATER TO ESCAPE WITH. WHEN PAP LEAVES, HUCKLEBERRY FIGURES HE WILL BE OUT ALL NIGHT AND DECIDES TO MAKE HIS ESCAPE. HE CUTS A SMALL PIECE OF WOOD OUT FROM THE CABIN AND BEGINS TO CLEAN OUT THE CABIN AND PUTS EVERYTHING INTO THE CANOE. HE THEN KILLS A PIG AND BUSTS DOWN THE CABIN DOOR, THEN HE USES THE PIG’S BLOOD AND LIMBS TO MAKE IT SEEM LIKE ROBBERS BROKE INTO THE CABIN, STOLE ALL EVERYTHING, AND KILLEDH UCK. AFTER HE FINISHED, HE THEN HOPPED INTO HIS CANOE AND DRIFTED ALONG THE RIVER. HUCK FALLS ASLEEP TRYING TO GET TO JACKSON’S ISLAND WAKES UP TO SEE PAP ROWING RIGHT NEXT TO HIMH. E WAITS A WHILE UNTIL HE IS OUT OF SIGHT AND THEN CONTINUES HIS DOWN TO JACKSON ’S ISLAND TRYING HIS BEST NOT TO BE SEEN. QUOTE: : ”. . . LOOKED OUT ON THE BIG RIVER AND THE BLACK DRIFTWOOD AND AWAY OVER TO THE TOWN, THREE MILE AWAY. ”

CHAPTER 8 • PLOT: H : UCK WAKES UP TO SEE A FERRY BOAT CARRYING PEOPLE HUCK KNOWS SHOOTING CANNON BLANKS AND FLOATING BREAD WITH QUICKSILVER. HUCK IS ABLE TO GRAB SOME BREAD AND EAT ITA. FTER A FEW DAYS BY HIMSELFH E THEN NOTICES THAT SOMEONE ELSE IS ON THE ISLAND BUT IS DELIGHTED TO SEE THAT IT’S JIM TELLS HIM THAT HE RAN AWAY FROM THE PLANTATION BECAUSE HE WAS GOING TO GET SOLD TO A SLAVE TRADER INN EW ORLEANS. • QUOTE: "WELL I B’LIEVE YOU, HUCK. I-I RUN OFF. ” “JIM!” "BUT MIND, YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T' TELL—YOU KNOW YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T TELLH , UCK. “ "WELL, I DID. I SAID I WOULDN'T, ANDI' LL STICK TO H IT. ONEST INJUN, I WILL. PEOPLE WOULD CALL ME A LOW-DOWN ABOLITIONIST AND DESPISE ME FOR KEEPING MUM—BUT THAT DON'T MAKE NO DIFFERENCE. I AIN'T A-GOING TO TELL, AND I AIN 'T A-GOING BACK THERE, ANYWAYS. SO, NOW, LE'S KNOW ALL ABOUT IT" (8. 43, TWAIN). •

CHAPTER 9 • PLOT: HUCK WANTS TO GO TO A PLACE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ISLAND THAT HE SAW WHEN EXPLORING. IT WAS A STEEP HILL AND WHEN THEY CLIMBED TO THE TOP THEY SAW A CAVERN. JIM SAID THAT THEY COULD HIDE IN THERE HE ALSO SAID THAT THE BIRDS SAID IT WAS GOING TO RAIN SOJ IM AND HUCK STAYED IN THE CAVERN. SOON IT STARTED TO THUNDER AND LIGHTNING, THE WATER IN THE RIVER KEPT RAISING FOR TEN TO TWELVE DAYS. ONCE IT STOPPED JIM AND HUCK PADDLED ALL OVER THE ISLAND. THEY SAW A BIG RAFT AND LATER FOUND A TWO-STORY HOUSEW. HEN THEY WENT IN THEY FOUND A DEAD MAN. IN THE HOUSE THEY ALSO FOUND MANY THINGS, FOR EXAMPLE: A STRAW HAT, SOME KNIVES, A HATCHET, A FISH-LINE AND HOOKS, SOME MEDICINE A ROLL OF BUCKSKIN, A FIDDLE-BOW, AND A WOODEN LEGW. HEN THEY LEFT THE HOUSE JIM HAD TO LAY DOWN IN THE CANOE COVERED BY A QUILT SO PEOPLE WOULDN’T SEE HIM. • QUOTE: “‘JIM, THIS IS NICE, ’ I SAYS. ‘I WOULDN’T WANT TO BE NOWHERE ELSE BUT HERE. PASS ME ALONG ANOTHER HUNK OF FISH AND SOME HOT CORN-BREAD’” ( 49).

CHAPTER 10 • PLOT: H : UCK WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THE DEAD MAN, BUTJ IM WARNS HIM THAT HE WILL HAVE BAD LUCK BECAUSE OF IT. JIM TELLS HUCK THAT HE ALREADY HAS BAD LUCK BECAUSE HE TOUCHED A SNAKE’S SHED OFF SKIN. HUCK DOES END UP WITH BAD LUCK WHEN HE PLAYS A JOKE ON JIM BY KILLING A SNAKE AND PUTTING HIM NEXT TOJ IM WHEN HE IS ASLEEP. WHEN JIM WAKES UP, THE SNAKE’S MATE COMES AND BITES HIS FOOT CAUSING IT TO SWELLH. UCK AND JIM ALSO CAUGHT A MASSIVE CATFISH AND DISSECTED ITS STOMACH AND FOUND A LOT OF WEIRD THINGS. THE NEXT DAY HUCK WANTS TO GO TO THEI LLINOIS SHORE (THE OTHER RIVERBANK ACROSS THE RIVER) TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS GOING ONH. E DISGUISES HIMSELF AS A GIRL. HUCK FINDS AN OLD SHACK WITH A ROUGHLY 40 YEAR OLD LADY IN IT WHO LOOKS LIKE A NEWCOMER WHICH IS GOOD FORH UCK BECAUSE THAT MEANS SHE WON’T RECOGNIZE HIM. • QUOTE: I PRACTICED AROUND ALL DAY TO GET THE HANG OF THE THINGS, AND BY AND I BY COULD DO PRETTY WELL IN THEM, ONLYJ IM SAID I DIDN’T WALK LIKE A GIRL; AND HE SAID I MUST QUIT PULLING UP MY GOWN TO GET AT MY BRITCHES-POCKETI . TOOK NOTICE, AND DONE BETTER. ”(54).

CHAPTER 11 • PLOT: T. E FIRST : HE WOMEN LETS HUCK INTO THE HUT AND HE IS DISGUISED AS A GIRLH INTRODUCES HIMSELF AS SARAH WILLIAMS, AND AFTER TALKING FOR AWHILE, THE TOPIC OF HUCK’S MURDER COMES UP, AND SHE REVEALS THAT THERE IS A $300 BOUNTY FOR JIM AND A $200 REWARD FOR P AP. THE WOMEN THINKS THAT JIM MIGHT BE ON JACKSON’S ISLAND ASKED HER HUSBAND TO GO THERE AND LOOK FOR HIMA. FTER ALMOST HITTING A RAT WITH A PIECE OF LEAD, THE WOMEN FIGURES OUT THAT H UCK IS A BOY, AND HE SAYS HE IS A FARMER’S APPRENTICEA. FTER KNOWING THAT THE WOMEN WON’T TURN HIM IN, HE RUSHES BACK TO THE CAMPSITE AND ALERTS JIM THAT THEY HAVE TO LEAVE. • QUOTE: “THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS IS A POWER OF MONEYI . WISH MY MOTHER COULD GET IT. IS YOUR HUSBAND GOING OVER THERE TONIGHT” (PG 58).

CHAPTER 12 • PLOT: JIM AND HUCK DURING THE NIGHT AND COVER THE RAFT UP DURING THE DAY, LIVING OFF FOOD THEY BOUGHT, HUNTING, AND OCCASIONALLY STOLET. O COUNTERACT THEIR ACTS OF STEALING, THEY DECIDE ON THREE THINGS NOT TO STEAL ANYMORE SO THEY ARE JUSTIFIED. HUCK AND JIM FIND A WRECKED STEAMSHIP AND HUCK IMMEDIATELY WANTS TO EXPLORE AND LOOT IT, BUT JIM DOES NOT FEEL THE SAME. THEY WENT ON THE BOAT AND HEAD TWO ROBBERS WHO WERE GOING TO LEAVE A THIRD MAN TO DROWN. JIM AND HUCK RUN BACK TO THEIR RAFT TO ALTER THE SHERIFF, BUT THEIR RAFT WAS GONE. • QUOTE: “PAP ALWAYS SAID, ‘ TAKE A CHICKEN WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE, BECAUSE IF YOU DON’T WANT HIM YOURSELF YOU CAN EASY FIND SOMEBODY THAT DOES, AND A GOOD DEAD AIN’T NEVE FORGOT” ( TWAIN 49)

CHAPTER 13 • PLOT: H : UCK AND JIM JUMP INTO THE ROBBERS BOAT WHILE THE ROBBERS GO GET MORE MONEY FROM THE VICTIMS ON THE STEAMBOATH. UCK AND JIM STEAL THE ROBBERS BOAT AND LEAVE THE ROBBERS STRANDED ON THE WRECK. HUCK STARTS TO FEEL BAD ABOUT LEAVING THE ROBBERS (MORALITY COMPASS CHANGE). THEY GO TO SHORE TO GET HELP, HUCK TELLS A WATCHMAN THAT HIS FAMILY IS STRANDED ON THE STEAMBOAT WRECK AND CONVINCES HIM TOH ELP. HUCK AND JIM THEN GO TO SINK THE ROBBERS BOAT. THE ROBBERS DO NOT SURVIVE. • QUOTE: “BUT TAKE IT ALL AROUND, I WAS FEELING RUTHER COMFORTABLE ON ACCOUNTS OF TAKING ALL THIS TROUBLE FOR THAT GANG, FOR NOT MANY WOULD ‘A’ DONE IT”(75).

CHAPTER 14 • PLOT: H : UCK AND JIM FIND VALUABLE LOOT FROM ALL THE THINGS THEY TOOK FROM THE ROBBERS. THEY ALSO GOT A BOOK FROM THE WRECK ABOUT ADVENTURESJ. IM SAYS THAT HE IS NOT A FAN OF ADVENTURES BECAUSE IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG HE COULD GET CAUGHT AND DIE. THEY CONTINUE READING BOOKS TOGETHER AT NIGHT. HUCK AND JIM APPROACH THE OHIO RIVER FINALLY. HUCK CAME TO THE CANOE WHILEJ IM WAS ON THE RAFT, WHICH LEADS THEM TO GET SEPARATED IN THE FOGGY RIVERT. HEY FINALLY MEET AGAIN AND HUCK DECIDES TO PULL A PRANK ONJ IM SAYING THAT THEIR SEPARATION WAS ALL A DREAM. HE GETS UPSET WITH HUCK WHEN HE REALIZES THAT IT WAS A PRANK. HE HUCK FEELS BAD FOR HURTINGJ IM (MORAL COMPASS CHANGE) AND APOLOGIZES TO HIM. QUOTE: “HE SAID THAT WHEN I WENT IN THE TEXAS AND HE CRAWLED BACK TO GET ON THE RAFT AND FOUND HER GONE HE NEARLY DIED, BECAUSE HE JUDGED IT WAS ALL UP WITH HIM ANYWAY IT COULD BE FIXED; ” (76).

CHAPTER 15 • PLOT: HUCK AND JIM APPROACHED THE OHIO RIVER, DEALING TO SELL THE RAFT AND GET ON A STEAMBOAT TO THE FREE STATESU. NFORTUNATELY, A FOGGY NIGHT SEPARATED THEM, AND THEY LOST THE DIRECTION NEAR THE ISLANDT. HEY WHOOPED TO EACH OTHER, TRYING TO DETERMINE THEIR POSITIONW. HEN HUCK REUNITED WITH JIM, JIM WAS SURPRISED TO SEEH UCK ALIVE, BUT HUCK TRIED TO TRICK JIM BY SAYING ALL OF THE ADVENTURES ARE HIS DREAMJ. IM BELIEVED HUCK AFTER AN ARGUMENT, BEGINNING TO SAY SUPERSTITIOUS THINGS ABOUT THE DREAM. THEN, HUCK LET JIM NOTICE THAT IT WAS NOT DREAM, JIM GOT MAD BY THAT. BY THIS TIME, HUCK FELT VERY GUILTY, STOPPING TO TRICKJ IM ANYMORE. • QUOTE: “IT WAS FIFTEEN MINUTES BEFOREI COULD WORK MYSELF UP TO GO AND HUMBLE MYSELF TO A NIGGER; BUTI DONE IT, ANDI WARN’T EVER SORRY FOR IT AFTERWARD, NEITHER. I DIDN’T DO HIM NO MORE MEAN TRICKS, AND I WOULDN’T DONE THAT ONE IFI ’D’A’ KNOWED IT WOULD MAKE HIM FEEL THAT WAY” (86).

CHAPTER 16 • PLOT: HUCK WAS ON TENTERHOOKS BECAUSE OF HELPING THE SLAVE ESCAPE FROM HIS RIGHTFUL OWNER. JIM’S TALKING ABOUT HIS GOALS OF GOING TO THE FREE STATES MAKE H UCK FELT FROZEN. JIM SAW HUCK AS HIS ONLY AND BEST FRIEND SOFTEDH UCK’S HEART. WHEN THEY MET 2 MEN WHO WANTED TO SEARCH THEIR RAFTH , UCK LIED TO THEM, LETTING THEM RAN AWAY AND LEFT $20 GOLD PIECE WITH THE IDEA THAT THE PERSON ON THE RAFT HAD SMALLPOX. HUCK AND JIM REALIZED THAT THEY WENT BYC AIRO IN THE FOG. WHEN THEY WANT TO GO BACK, THEY LOST THEIR CANOE. BOT OF THEM AGREE WITH THAT THE BAD LUCK WAS BROUGHT BY THE SNAKE SKIN. LATER, A BIG BOAT BROKE THE RAFT. HUCK AND JIM WERE SEPARATED AGAIN. • QUOTE: “S’POSE YOU’D’A’DONE RIGHT AND GIVEJIM UP, WOULD YOU FELT BETTER THAN WHAT YOU DO NOW? NO, SAYS I, I’D FEEL BAD. . . WHAT’S THE USE YOU LEARNING TO DO RIGHT WHEN IT’S TOUBLESOME TO DO RIGHT AND AIN’T NO TROUBLE TO DO WRONG, AND THE WAGES IS JUST THE SAME? I WAS STUCK. I COULDN’T BOTHER NO MORE ABOUT IT, BUT AFTER THIS ALWAYS DO WHICHEVER COME HANDIEST AT THE TIME” (91).

CHAPTER 17 • PLOT: A MAN WALKS OUT AND RELIEVES H UCK FROM THE DOGS ASKING HIM FOR HIS NAME ANDH UCK REPLIES “GEORGE. ” HUCK IS INVITED IN AND SUSPECTED FOR BEING AS HEPHERDSON. AFTER INVESTIGATING THE GRANGERFORDS CONCLUDE HE IS NOT. BUCK WHO IS HUCK’S AGE THREATENS HE WILL KILL ANYS HEPHERDSON HE SEES. HUCK IS INVITED TO STAY IN THE NICE HOUSE AND ADMIRES EMMERLINE’S POETRY AND REALIZES THAT HE HASN’T EVER BEEN IN A BETTER PLACE. • QUOTE: “AIN’T THERE NO SHEPHERDSONS AROUND? ”(PG 103)

CHAPTER 18 • PLOT: HUCK LOOKS UP TO COLONEL GRANGERFORD, WHO OWNS A LARGE PIECE OF LAND, AND SLAVES. ONE OF HIS SONS, BUCK TRIES TO SHOOT HARNEY SHEPHERDSON, BUT MISSES. HUCK ASKS BUCK WHY HE TRIED TO SHOOT HARNEY, AND BUCK EXPLAINS THE RIVALRY BETWEEN THE TWO FAMILIES. SOPHIA GRANGERFORD HAS HUCK GET A BIBLE FROM ONE OF THE PEWS AT THE CHURCH, IT HAS THE WORDS ‘HALF PAST TWO’ INSIDE ITL. ATER, HUCK GETS REUNITED WITH JIM. THE NEXT DAY, IT IS DISCOVERED THATS OPHIA RAN OFF WITH HARNEY. BUCK AND ONE OF HIS SIBLINGS GET INTO A GUNFIGHT WITH THE SHEPHERDSONS AND THEY BOTH GET KILLED. HUCK LEAVES WITH JIM AND THEY FLOAT DOWN THE RIVER. • QUOTE: “WE SAID THERE WARN’T NO HOME LIKE A RAFT, AFTER ALLO. THER PLACES DO SEEM SO CRAMPED UP AND SMOTHERY, BUT A RAFT DON’TY. OU FEEL MIGHTY FREE AND EASY AND COMFORTABLE ON A RAFT” (88).

CHAPTER 19 • PLOT: H UCK FINDS A CANOE AND : UCK AND JIM CONTINUE DOWN RIVER WHENH TAKES IT TO THE MAIN SHORE TO LOOK FOR SOME BERRIEST. WO MEN COME OUT OF THE WOODS AND GET INTOH UCK’S CANOE BECAUSE THEY WERE IN TROUBLE AND BEING CHASED BY DOGS. THEY WENT DOWN RIVER TO SAFETY ANDH UCK LEARNS THAT THE TWO MEN DIDN'T KNOW EACH OTHERO. NE MAN IS ABOUT 70 AND THE OTHER 30, THEN THEY DECIDE TO TEAM UPT. HE YOUNGER ONE DECLARES HIMSELF THE DUKE OF BRIDGEWATER AND LATER THE OLDER MAN SAYS HE IS THE DAUPHIN. HUCK AND JIM TREAT THEM LIKE ROYALTY EVEN THOUGH HUCK REALIZES THAT THEY ARE JUST FRAUDS. HE DOESN'T WANT ANY TROUBLE SO HE JUST KEEPS GOING ALONG WITH IT. • QUOTE: “I HAD NO OBJECTIONS, ‘LONG AS IT WOULD KEEP PEACE IN THE FAMILY; AND IT WARN’T NO USE TO TELL PAP, I LEARNT THAT THE BEST WAY TO GET ALONG WITH HIS KIND OF PEOPLE IS TO LET THEM HAVE THEIR OWN WAY”(125)

CHAPTER 20 • PLOT: T UCK MAKES UP A STORY : HE KING AND THE DUKE ASK IF JIM IS A RUNAWAY SLAVE SOH ABOUT HOW THEY CAME TO BE, BUT EVERYBODY THINKS HE’S A RUNAWAY SO THEY CAN ONLY TRAVEL AT NIGHT. THAT NIGHT THE DUKE AND KING TOOKH UCK AND JIM'S BEDS WHILE THEY TOOK TURNS SLEEPING WHILE THE OTHER TOOK WATCH OVER THE STORM TO MAKE SURE NOTHING BAD WOULD HAPPEN. THE NEXT MORNING THE DUKE SUGGESTS THAT THEY PERFORM ROMEO AND JULIET IN THE NEXT TOWN THEY SEE TO EARN A LITTLE EXTRA MONEYT. HEY ARRIVE IN TOWN AND ARE SURPRISED TO SEE THAT NO ONE IS THERET. HE WHOLE TOWN IS AT A RELIGIOUS MEETING IN THE WOODS. THE DUKE GOES TO THE PRINTING OFFICE, WHILEH UCK AND THE KING GO TO THE MEETING IN THE WOODS WITHJ IM WATCHING THE RAFT. HUCK AND THE KING FIND THOUSANDS LISTENING TO THEP REACHER GO CRAZY. THE KING GOES UP ON STAGE AND TELLS THE CROWD HE IS A REFORMED PIRATE FROM THEINDIAN OCEAN AND WILL CONVERT OTHERS THERE TO CHRISTIANITY IF GIVEN ENOUGH MONEY. HE GETS EIGHTY SEVEN DOLLARS FROM THE CROWD, WHILE THED UKE PRINTED OUT A BOUNTY FORJ IM DESCRIBING HIM AS A WAY TO TRAVEL IN THE DAYTIME. • QUOTE: “I DOAN’ MINE ONE ER TWO KINGS, BUT DAT’S ENOUGH D. IS ONE’S POWERFUL DRUNK, EN DE DUKE AIN’ MUCH BETTER. ”(PG 134)

CHAPTER 21 • PLOT: IN CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE, IT STARTS OFF WITH THE DUKE AND THE KING PRACTICING THEIR SHAKESPEARE. THE DUKE STRUGGLES TO KEEP HIS PLAYS STRAIGHT AND ENDS UP MIXING THE STORIES. MAKING A FOOL OF HIMSELF. THEY THEN DECIDE IT'S FINALLY TIME TO PERFORM THE PLAY AND PRINT SOME PLAYBILLS USING FAKE STAGE NAMES. THEIR STAGE NAMES WERE DAVID GARRICK AND EDMUND KEAN. THEY DECIDE TO PERFORM THE PLAY IN A VERY RUN-DOWN TOWNT. HEY THEN MEET THE TOWN DRUNK, BOGGS, WHO HAS A HABIT OF GETTING WASTED AND RIDING THROUGH THE TOWN ON HIS HORSES YELLING THAT HE IS GOING TO KILL ANYONE HE DISLIKESB. OGGS THEN THREATENS SHERBURN, WHO RESPONDS BY SAYING LEAVE BY ONE O’CLOCK OR DIE THE. TOWNS PEOPLE THEN RUSH TO TRY TO GETB OGGS’S DAUGHTER TO CONVINCE HIM TO STOP. SHERMAN EVENTUALLY GETS TOO TIRED OFB OGGS’S THREATS AND SHOOTS TWICE AND KILLS HIM. HIS DAUGHTER FINALLY ARRIVES, BUT SHE IS TOO LATET. HE TOWN THEN DECIDES TO CREATE A MOB AND TO LYNCH SHERBURN. • QUOTE: “THEY LAID HIM ON THE FLOOR , AND PUT ONE BIBLE UNDER HIS HEAD, AND OPENED ANOTHER ONE AND SPREAD IT ON HIS BREAST - BUT THEY TORE OPEN HIS SHIRT FIRST, AND I SEEN WHERE ONE OF THEM BULLETS WENT IN. ” (143) •

CHAPTER 22 • PLOT: THERE WAS A BAR FIGHT IN TOWN BETWEENB OGGS AND SHERBURN AND A LOCAL DRUNK. IT ESCALATED AND SHERBURN SHOT THE DRUNK NEAR A CROWD OF TOWNSPEOPLE. THEY GOT ANGRY AND CALLED FOR HIM TO BE LYNCHED FOR HIS ACTIONS. SHERBURN THEN GETS ON TOP OF HIS ROOF WITH A GUN IN HAND BASICALLY CALLS THE TOWNSPEOPLE COWARDS BECAUSE HE BELIEVES THEY AREN'T GOING TO LYNCH ANYONE. THE CROWD EVENTUALLY GOES HOME AFTERS HERBURN CALLS THEM “HALF A MAN”. HUCK THEN GOES TO THE CIRCUS AND WITNESSES THE RINGMASTER ALLOWING A “DRUNK” TO RIDE A HORSE WHICH WAS VERY AMUSING TO THE CROWD. THE DRUNK WAS ACTUALLY SOBER ANDH UCK REALIZES IT WAS ALL STAGED. THEN THE KING AND DUKE PERFORMS THEIRS HAKESPEARE ACT THAT WAS MEANT TO BE SERIOUS BUT EVERYONE WAS LAUGHING AND THE DUKE MADE A POSTER SAYING THAT THE NEXT PERFORMANCE WILL ONLY ALLOW MEN TO SEE IT. • QUOTE: “THE IDEA OF YOU LYNCHING SOMEONE! IT’S AMUSING. ” (145) •

CHAPTER 23 • PLOT: T : HE DUKE AND THE KING WORKED ALL SAY SETTING UP THE STAGE FOR THEIR PLAY AND SOLD OUT THEIR SHOW FOR THE DAY. THE DUKE HAD BUILT UP EVERYONES EXPECTATIONS BY SAYING IT WAS GOING TO BE THE MOST THRILLING PLAY EVER, BUT REALLY IT WAS JUST THE KING PRANCING AROUND ON STAGE NAKED AND PAINTED WHICH THE CROWD THOUGHT WAS HILARIOUS. ONCE THE PLAY WAS OVER THE CROWD WAS ANGRY AND FELT CHEATED BECAUSE THEY EXPECTED MORE. THE CROWD IS EMBARRASSED SO THEY TELL EVERYONE IN TOWN THAT THEY LOVED THE PLAY SO EVERYONE GETS RIPPED OFFT. HEY SELL OUT THE SECOND NIGHT AND THE THIRD NIGHT IS FULL OF PEOPLE GETTING THEIR REVENGEH. UCK AND THE DUKE RAN TO THE RAFT TO GET AWAY. JIM TELLS HUCK THAT THE DUKE AND THE KING ARE “RAPSCALLIONS”. JIM LATER TELLS HUCK A STORY ABOUT HIS DAUGHTER AND ADMITS THAT HE IS HOMESICK. • QUOTE: ”HE WAS THINKING ABOUT HIS WIFE AND HIS CHILDREN, AWAY UP YONDER, AND HE WAS LOW AND HOMESICK; BECAUSE HE HADN’T EVER BEEN AWAY FROM HOME BEFORE IN HIS LIFE; AND I DO BELIEVE HE CARED JUST AS MUCH FOR HIS PEOPLE AS WHITE FOLKS DOES FOR THEIR’N. IT DON’T SEEM NATURAL, BUTI RECKON IT’S SO”(155).

CHAPTER 24 • PLOT: H : UCK, JIM, THE DUKE, AND THE DAUPHIN TIE THE RAFT UP IN A NEW TOWNJ. IM IS SCARED BECAUSE HE DOESN'T WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE IN THE RAFTT. O MAKE JIM FEEL BETTER, THE DUKE DRESSES JIM UP IN HIS STAGE CLOTHES. THE DUKE ALSO LEFT A SIGN ONJ IM THAT SAID, “SICK ARAB BUT HARMLESS WHEN NOT OUT OF HIS HEAD”. THE DAUPHIN, DUKE AND HUCK GO ON A STEAMBOAT; THEY MEET A MAN WHO SHARES ABOUT THE DEATH OF P ETER WILKS HAD LEFT ALL OF HIS EARNINGS TO HIS TWO BROTHERS (ONE OF WHICH IS DEAF) BACK IN ENGLAND . THE MAN IS UNSURE IFW ILKS’S BROTHERS WILL ARRIVE. THE BOYS GET OFF AT THE TOWN OF PETER WILKS AND IMMEDIATELY THE DUKE AND DAUPHIN TRY TO PRETEND TO BEW ILKS’S BROTHER. THE DAUPHIN EVEN PRETENDS TO TALK IN SIGN LANGUAGE MAKINGH UCK EXTREMELY EMBARRASSED. • QUOTE: “WELL, THE MEN GATHERED AROUND AND SYMPATHIZED WITH THEM, AND SAID ALL SORTS OF KIND THINGS TO THEM, AND CARRIED THEIR CARPET-BAGS UP THE HILL FOR THEM, AND LET THEM LEAN ON THEM AND CRY, AND TOLD THE KING ALL ABOUT HIS BROTHER’S LAST MOMENTS- IT WAS ENOUGH TO MAKE A BODY ASHAMED OF THE HUMAN RACE. ”

CHAPTER 25 • PLOT: ONCE THE DUKE AND THE KING HAVE CONVINCED THE CROWD THAT THEY ARE THE WILKES’ RELATIVES FROM ENGLAND, THEY ENTER THE BASEMENT OF THE HOUSE TO COLLECT THE $6, 000 FOR THEMSELVES AND “HIS” NIECES THEY. ADD $415 TO THE AMOUNT, AS THE INHERITANCE WAS $415 SHORT, TO MAKE IT MORE BELIEVABLE T. HE FRAUDS ALSO GIVE ALL $6, 000 TO THEIR NIECES TO APPEAR GENEROUS IN FRONT OF THE CROWD, AND TO SELL THE REST OF THEIR INHERITED PROPERTY. WHILE GRANTING THIS MONEY TO HIS NIECES, ONE MAN, DR. ROBINSON, NOTES THE KING’S FAKE ACCENT, CALLS HIM OUT FOR BEING A FRAUD, THEN TRIES TO PERSUADE MARY JANE THE SAME. HOWEVER, MARY JANE INSTEAD GIVES ALL $6, 000 TO THE KING, TELLING HIM TO INVEST IT HOWEVER HE CHOOSES. • QUOTE: “‘KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF ME!’ SAYS THE DOCTOR. ‘ YOU TALK LIKE AN ENGLISHMAN, DON’T YOU? IT’S THE WORST IMITATION I EVER HEARD. YOU PETER WILKS’S BROTHER! YOU’RE A FRAUD, THAT’S WHAT YOU ARE!”(169).

CHAPTER 26 • PLOT: AFTER THE DUKE AND KING WORK OUT THE PLAN FOR THEW ILKES FAMILY GOLD, THEY STAY IN THE WILKES’ HOUSE. THE KING, DUKE, AND HUCK ARE ALL GIVEN RELATIVELY SMALL ROOMS, BUT WERE ENOUGH FOR THEM. THAT NIGHT THERE WAS A BIG DINNER, WHERE HUCK STOOD BEHIND THE KING AND DUKE’S CHAIR AND WAITED FOR THEM TO FINISHT. HE GIRLS FISH FOR COMPLIMENTS BY BEING APOLOGETIC ABOUT HOW “BAD” THE FOOD WAS, AND IT WORKED. HUCK THEN TALKS WITH JOANNA WILKES ABOUT ENGLAND SLIPS UP MULTIPLE TIMES, EVENTUALLY MAKING JOANNA BELIEVE THAT HE WAS LYING. MARY JANE INTERJECTS, SAYING THAT IT IS RUDE TO TREAT A FOREIGN STRANGER THAT WAYH. UCK FEELS BAD THAT HE IS HELPING THE DUKE AND KING STEAL THE GOLD, SO HE DECIDES TO STEAL IT AND GIVE IT BACK. HE GOES TO THE KING’S ROOM, LOOKING FOR THE BAG OF MONEY, WHEN THE KING AND DUKE COME IN AND DISCUSS HOW THEY PLAN TO LEAVE EARLY IN THE MORNING. THEN LEAVE. HUCK THEN TAKES THE MONEY BAG AND HIDES IT IN HIS PALLET AND WAITS UNTIL IT IS LATE AND THEN HEADS OUT TO HIDE IT BETTER. • QUOTE: ‘CUSS THE DOCTOR! WHAT DO WE K’YER FORH IM? HAIN’T WE GOT ALL THE FOOLS IN TOWN ON OUR SIDE? AND AIN’T THAT A BIG ENOUGH MAJORITY OF THE TOWN? ”(177).

CHAPTER 27 • PLOT: HUCK HIDES THE MONEY HE STOLE IN THE COFFIN ASM ARY JANE COMES IN THE ROOM. HUCK HIDES BEHIND THE CURTAIN WHILE MARY JANE IS WEEPING OVER HER DEAD FATHER’S BODY AND DOESN'T GET ANOTHER CHANCE TO REMOVE THE MONEY SAFELY. THE NEXT MORNING THEY HAVE A FUNERAL AND THE UNDERTAKER CHASES A DOG THAT GOT OUT AND CAUGHT A RATS. HORTLY AFTER, HUCK WATCHES THE UNDERTAKER SEAL THE COFFIN WITHOUT LOOKING INSIDE. HE WONDERS IF HE SHOULD WRITE A LETTER TO MARY JANE EXPLAINING WHERE THE MONEY WAS HID BUT DECIDES NOT TO BECAUSE HE COULD GET IN TROUBLE. THE DAUPHIN AUCTIONS OFF THE ESTATE AND PLANS TO TAKE THEW ILKS GIRLS TO ENGLAND WITH THEM WHICH MAKES HUCK SAD TO WATCH THE GIRLS GO WITH THE MEN WHO ARE FOOLING THEMH. UCK WITNESSES THE SEPARATION OF A SLAVE MOTHER AND HER TWO SONS AND IS FURTHER DISHEARTENEDF. INALLY, WHEN HUCK IS APPROACHED BY THE DUKE AND THE KING ASKING IF HE WENT IN THEIR ROOM, HE IS ABLE TO USE THE SLAVES AS A SCAPEGOAT WITHOUT GETTING THEM IN TROUBLE. • QUOTE: “I CAN’T EVER GET IT OUT OF MY MEMORY, THE SIGHT OF THEM POOR MISERABLE GIRLS AND N****** HANGING AROUND EACH OTHER’S NECKS AND CRYING; ANDI RECKONI COULDN’T A’ STOOD IT ALL, BUT WOULD’ A’ HAD TO BUST OUT AND TELL ON OUR GANG IFI HADN’T KNOWED THE SALE WARN’T NO ACCOUNT AND THE N****** WOULD BE BACK HOME IN A WEEK OR TWO”(182).

CHAPTER 28 • PLOT: HUCK SAW MARY JANE CRYING, SHE SAID SHE WAS SAD BECAUSE THEIR SLAVES THAT WERE JUST SOLD WERE SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER. HE REASSURES HER AND TELLS HER THAT THEY WILL BE REUNITED IN TWO WEEKS. HE THEN SAYS IF SHE STAYS SOMEWHERE ELSE FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS HE WILL TELL HER THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SLAVES. AFTER HE REASSURES HER, HUCK TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT WHO THE DUKE AND KING REALLY ARE AND THAT THEY ARE NOT HER UNCLESH. E THEN TELLS MARY JANE TO STAY AT HER FRIENDS HOUSE THAT NIGHT BECAUSE HE’S AFRAIDM ARY JANE WILL TELL SOMEBODY ABOUT WHAT SHE HEARD (THE DUKE AND KING) AND BECAUSE HE NEEDS TIME FOR HIM AND J IM TO ESCAPE. MARY JANE WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE AND HUCK TELLS HER THAT HE WILL WRITE HER A LETTER SAYING WHERE THE MONEY REALLY WAS HID A. FTER SHE LEAVES HE RUNS INTOS USAN AND SHE ASKS WHEREM ARY WAS GOING AND HE LIES AND SAYS THAT SHE WENT OVER TO CHECK ON ONE OF THEIR FRIENDS THAT HAS THE MUMPSJ. UST AS HUCK WAS MAKING SURE SUSAN WOULDN’T SAY ANYTHING TO THE DUKE AND KING, THE REAL BROTHERS OF P ETER WILKS SHOW UP. • QUOTE: “ A STEAMBOAT LANDED, AND IN ABOUT TWO MINUTES UP COMES A CROWND A-WHOOPING AND YELLING AND LAUGHING. . . “HERE’S YOUR OPPOSITION LINE! HERE’S YOUR TWO SETS O’HEIRS TO OLDP ETER WILKS-AND YOU PAYS YOUR MONEY AND YOU TAKES YOUR CHOICE!”’ (195).

CHAPTER 29 • PLOT: THE REAL HARVEY WILKS ARRIVES WITH HIS MUTE BROTHERW ILLIAM. THEY EXPLAIN THAT THEY WERE LATE BECAUSE THEY LOST THEIR LUGGAGE ANDW ILLIAM BROKE HIS ARM, MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO COMMUNICATE BY SIGN. DOCTOR ROBINSON PROPOSES ONCE AGAIN THAT THE DUKE AND DAUPHIN ARE FRAUDS BECAUSE THEY FAILED TO PRODUCE $6000 FROM THE W ILKS’ INHERITANCE. A LAWYER NAMEDL EVI BELL HAS THE DUKE, DAUPHIN AND THE REALH ARVEY SIGN A PAPER TO COMPARE WITH SIGNATURES FROM OLD DOCUMENTS. THE LAWYER CONFIRMS THAT THE DUKE IS A FRAUD BUT THE DAUPHIN TELLS HIM THAT HE IS JUST PLAYING A JOKE. WILLIAM CANNOT PROVE HE IS THE REAL BROTHER BECAUSE HE CANNOT WRITE DUE TO HIS BROKEN ARM. HARVEY SAYS THAT HE IS THE REAL BROTHER BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT P ETER HAS A TATTOO ON HIS CHEST. WHEN SOMEONE GOES TO CHECK, THERE APPEARED TO BE NO TATTOOT. HE CROWD ACCUSED ALL OF THEM OF BEING FRAUDS AND EVERYONE WENT INTO CHAOSD. URING THE COMMOTION, HUCK MANAGED TO ESCAPE ON A RAFT AND MET UP WITHJ IM. HUCK WAS THINKING ABOUT MARY JANE AS THEY PASSED THE WILKS’ HOME. BOTH OF THE BOYS WERE HAPPY. WHILE FLOATING DOWN, THEY CAME ACROSS THE KING AND DUKE IN A RAFT. • QUOTE: “‘THE WHOLE BILIN’ OF ‘M’S FRAUDS! LE’S DUCK ‘EM! LE’S DROWN ‘EM! LE’S RIDE ‘EM ON A RAIL!’ AND EVERYBODY WAS WHOOPING AT ONCE, AND THERE WAS A RATTLING POWWOW. ” (201).

CHAPTER 30 • PLOT: WHEN THE DUKE AND THE KING REACH THE RAFT THEK ING NEARLY STRANGLES HUCK, ANGRY THAT HE TRIED TO ESCAPE WITHOUT THEM. TRYING TO COVER UP FOR HIMSELF, HUCK TELLS THE KING THAT WHEN THE MAN WHO HAD A HOLD OF HIM SAW THE GOLD IN THE COFFIN, HE LET HIM GO SAYING “HEEL IT NOW, OR THEY’LL HANG YE, SURE!” (205). THE DUKE TELLS THE KING TO LET GO OFH UCK AND ASKS HIM IF HE WOULDN’T HAVE DONE ANY DIFFERENTT. HE DUKE AND THE KING GO BACK AND FORTH BLAMING EACH OTHER FOR PUTTING THE GOLD IN THE COFFIN, SO THEY COULD REDEEM IT LATER, WITHOUT THE OTHER KNOWING. NOT RESOLVING THE ISSUE, THEY BOTH LET IT GO, GET DRUNK AND MAKE UP W. HEN THE KING AND THE DUKE FINALLY GET TO SLEEP, HUCK TELLS JIM EVERYTHING. • QUOTE: “LEGGO THE BOY, YOU OLD IDIOT! WOULD YOU ’A’ DONE ANY DIFFERENT? DID YOU INQUIRE AROUND FOR HIM WHEN YOU GOT LOOSE? I DON’T REMEMBER IT” (206).

CHAPTER 31 • PLOT: T : HE RAFT CONTINUED TO TRAVEL DOWN THE RIVER FOR DAYS AND MADE NO STOPST. HE TRANSITION INTO THE SOUTH WAS NOTICEABLE WITH AN INCREASE IN TEMPERATURE AND NEW VEGETATIONT. HE DUKE AND DAUPHIN THEN DECIDE THAT IT’S SAFE TO START DOING BUSINESS AGAIN AND TRY MULTIPLE SCAMS BUT DON’T HAVE ANY LUCK. AFTER DECIDING TO MIGRATE MORE, THE TWO FRAUDS START TO TALK QUIETLY TO EACH OTHER FOR LONG AMOUNTS OF TIME WHICH WORRIESH UCK AND JIM INTO THINKING THEY WERE GOING TO DO A VERY SERIOUS CRIME. HUCK AND JIM DECIDE IF THE CON MEN CONTINUE WITH THEIR PLAN, THEY WILL LEAVE THE TWO CRIMINALS. WHEN THE FOUR DOCK, AND THE TWO FRAUDS + HUCK GO INTO TOWN, HUCK CHOOSES TO ESCAPE BUT WHEN HE RETURNS TO THE RAFT HE SEESJ IM IS MISSING. A BOY EXPLAINS TOH UCK, THAT A MAN (THE DUKE) SAW THE HANDBILL THAT THED UKE PRINTED AND CAPTURED JIM BUT SOLD HIM TOS ILAS PHELPS. HUCK TRIES TO PRAY FORGIVENESS THEN WRITES A LETTER TOM ISS WATSON INFORMING HER WHERE JIM IS BUT THEN CONSIDERS THE CONSEQUENCES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH IT AND DECIDES IT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA. HE RECALLS THE GOOD TIMES HE HAS HAD WITHJ IM AND DECLARES HE’D RATHER GO TO HELL THEN DO WRONG BY HIM. HUCK RUNS INTO THE DUKE AND LIES ABOUT WHERE HE WAS AND THE DUKE ACCIDENTALLY TELLS HUCK WHERE JIM IS. • QUOTE: “I WOULD GO TO WORK AND STEAL JIM OUT OF SLAVERY AGAIN; AND IF I COULD THINK UP ANYTHING WORSE, I WOULD DO THAT, TOO; BECAUSE AS LONG AS I WAS IN, AND IN FOR GOOD I MIGHT , AS WELL GO THE WHOLE HOG” (214).

CHAPTER 32 • PLOT: H : UCK HEADS DOWN THE COUNTRYSIDE TO FIND THEP HELPS’S WHO SUPPOSEDLY TOOK JIM. WHEN HE GETS THERE HE IS THREATENED BY A PACK OF DOGSA . SLAVE WOMAN CALMS THEM DOWN AND SHORTLY AFTER A WHITE WOMEN NAMEDS ALLY APPROACHES HIM. SALLY IS ECSTATIC TO SEE HIM BECAUSE SHE IS CERTAIN HE IS HER NEPHEWS. HE QUESTIONS WHY HE HAS BEEN DELAYED IN HIS ARRIVAL WHICH HE SEES AS AN CHANCE TO CONCEAL HIS IDENTITY. SO HE EXPLAINS THAT A CYLINDER HEAD ON THE STEAMBOAT BLEW OUTS. ALLY IS MORTIFIED BY THE NEWS AND ASKS IF ANYONE GOT HURT, IN WHICH HE REPLIES A SLAVE WAS KILLED S. ALLY BELIEVES IT IS VERY LUCKY THATN OBODY WAS HURT. SOON AFTER, SALLY’S HUSBAND RETURNS HOME WHICH MAKES HUCK NERVOUS. LUCKY FOR HIM DURING THEIR GREETING IT WAS REVEALED THAT THIS WAS INDEED THE FAMILY OFT OM SAWYER! HUCK LIES AND TELLS TOM’S FAMILY HE NEEDS TO FETCH HIS LUGGAGE. INSTEAD HE HEADS UP RIVER TO INFORMT OM OF THE SITUATION. • QUOTE: “WE BLOWED OUT A CYLINDER-HEAD. GOOD GRACIOUS! ANYBODY HURT? NO ONLY KILLED A SLAVE. WELL, IT’S LUCKY; BECAUSE SOMETIMES PEOPLE DO GET HURT” (220 -221).

CHAPTER 33 • PLOT: H : UCK SEES TOM’S WAGON AND TOM BELIEVES HUCK IS A GHOST, AS HE FAKED HIS DEATH EARLIER IN THE NOVEL. TOM IS CONVINCED THAT HUCK IS REAL AND NOT A GHOST AND THEN AGREES TO HELP FREEJ IM. HUCK IS SURPRISED BY TOM’S WILLINGNESS. AFTERWARDS TOM FOLLOWS HUCK TO THE PHELPS HOUSE, AND THE FAMILY WELCOMES HIM. TOM CALLS HIMSELF WILLIAM THOMPSON FROM IDAHO, AND THEN PRETENDS TO BE HIS STEP BROTHERS ID. AS THE BOYS ARE WAITING TO HEAR THE ADULTS DISCUSS “THE RUNAWAY SLAVE”, SILAS MENTIONS THE DUKE AND DAUPHIN WERE CAUGHT AS FRAUDS. LATER THAT NIGHT, HUCK AND TOM SNEAK OUT AND SEE THE DUKE AND DAUPHIN BEING MOBBED. HUCK FEELS REMORSEFUL FOR THE MEN AND THE CONCLUDES CONSCIENCE IS USELESS BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU FEEL BAD NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO. • QUOTE: “I WAS SORRY FOR THEM POOR PITIFUL RASCALS, IT SEEMED I COULDN LIKE ’T EVER FEEL ANY HARDNESS AGAINST THEM ANY MORE IN THE WORLDI. T WAS A DREADFUL THING TO SEE. HUMANS CAN BE AWFUL CRUEL TO ONE ANOTHER”

CHAPTER 34 • PLOT: A : FTER TOM COMMITTED TO HUCK’S JOURNEY TO FREEJ IM, THEY STARTED THINKING OF A PLAN. HUCK OFFERED TO GO TO THE ASH-HOOPER, WHERE SUPPOSEDLY JIM WAS BEING HELD, GET JIM, AND LEAVE ON HIS RAFT IMMEDIATELY. TO, BEING AS WILD AS HE IS DIDN’T LIKE THE IDEA BECAUSE IT WAS TOO “SIMPLE/BASIC”. TOM DECIDED HUCK AND HIM ARE GOING TO DIG A HOLE IN THE GROUND TO THE ASH HOOPER THROUGH THE GROUND TO GET JIM, WHICH WILL TAKE ABOUT A WEEK. THE PLAN IS ACCEPTED BY HUCK AND THE JOURNEY TO FREE JIM BEGINS. • QUOTE: “‘DON’T EVER LET ON TO KNOW US. AND IF YOU HEAR ANY DIGGING GOING ON NIGHTS, IT'S US; WE'RE GOING TO SET YOU FREE. ’ ‘ JIM ONLY HAD TIME TO GRAB US BY THE HAND SQUEEZE IT’”( TWAIN 239).

CHAPTER 35 • PLOT: A : S HUCK AND TOM ARE ATTEMPTING TO FREEJ IM FROM THE PHELPS PROPERTY, TOM BEGINS TO FEEL DISAPPOINTED THATJ IM IS NOT GUARDED VERY WELL. HE GOES ON TO INVENT OBSTACLES THEY NEED TO OVERCOME IN ORDER TO FREE J IM (FOR EXAMPLE SAWING THE CHAIN INSTEAD OF JUST LIFTING THE BED TO WHICH IT IS CHAINED UNDER). TOM SAYS THAT THIS IS HOW IT IS DONE IN ALL THE BOOKSH. E THEN GOES ON TO COME UP WITH MANY OTHER ELEMENTS NEEDED FOR A GOOD ESCAPE STORY, BUT THEY DECIDE TO DIG A TUNNEL WITH LARGE TABLE KNIVEST. OM HAD EARLIER STOLE A WATERMELON FROM THE SLAVE’S GARDEN, ANDH UCK FEELS BAD AND MAKEST OM PAY THE SLAVES A DIME FOR IT. • QUOTE: “WHEN I STOLE A WATERMELON OUT OF THE NI***** PATCH AND EAT IT; AND HE [HUCK] MADE ME GO AND GIVE THE NI***** A DIME WITHOUT TELLING THEM WHAT IS WAS FOR”(242).

CHAPTER 37 • PLOT: TOM AND HUCK ARE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THEY DO NOT GET CAUGHT STEALING BYA UNT SALLY. SHE STARTS NOTICING THAT THINGS ARE GOING MISSING AROUND THE HOUSE AND IS GETTING EXTREMELY AGGRAVATED. UNCLE SILAS MENTIONS THAT IT MUST BE THE RATS THAT ARE STEALING EVERYTHING, BUT AUNT SALLY DOESN’T BELIEVE THAT A RAT CAN STEAL A WHOLE SPOON OR CANDLESTICKT. OM STARTS FEELING BAD, SO AS A FAVOR HE FILLED IN ALL THE HOLES THAT MAY ALLOW RATS TO COME IN THROUGH. AFTER, HUCK AND TOM PROCEED TO STEAL ANOTHER SPOON AND PRETEND THATA UNT SALLY KEEPS MISCOUNTING THE SPOONS. THEY HIDE THE SPOON IN HER APRON AND IT GETS DELIVERED TO J IM. FINALLY, AFTER GREAT DIFFICULTY, THE BOYS BAKE THE WITCH-PIE AND GET IT DELIVERED TO JIM , WHO CONTINUES TO FOLLOW THE PLAN. • QUOTE: “SO I SMOUCHED ONE, AND THEY COME OUT NINE, SAME AS THE OTHER TIMEW. ELL, SHE WAS IN A TEARING WAY---JUST A TREMBLING ALL OVER, SHE WAS SO MAD. ” (254)

CHAPTER 38 • PLOT: IN CHAPTER 38, TOM INSISTS JIM DRAW INSCRIPTIONS WITH HIS CELL OF ARMS ON THE WALL BEFORE HIS ESCAPE. TOM ALSO WRITES OUT A MOURNFUL DECLARATION FOR JIM TO CARVE ON A ROCK. THE ROCK IS TOO BIG FORJ IM AND HUCK TO CARRY, SO THEY HAVEJ IM COME OUT TO HELP HIM. TOM SAYS JIM SHOULD HAVE A RATTLESNAKE BECAUSE IT WILL BE A FRIEND AND LOVE HIMT. OM ALSO WANTS JIM TO GROW A FLOWER AND WATER IT WITH HIS TEARSJ. IM AND TOM DISAGREE ON WHETHER OR NOT THESE THINGS ARE NECESSARY TO HAVE A GREAT ESCAPE. TOM AND HUCK THEN LEAVE JIM AND GO OFF TO BED. • QUOTE: “JIM SAID IT WOULD TAKE HIM A YEAR THE SCRABBLE SUCH A LOT OF TRUCK ONTO LOGS WITH A NAIL AND HE DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO MAKE LETTERS” (259)

CHAPTER 39 • PLOT: HUCK AND TOM PUT RATS AND SNAKES IN THE SHED WITHJ IM WHICH ACCIDENTALLY INFESTS THE PHELPS HOUSE. CAUSING AUNT SALLY TO BECOME STRESSED OVER HOW UNORGANIZED HER HOUSE GETS, MEANWHILE UNCLE SILAS, DECIDES HE WANTS TO ADVERTISEJ IM AS A RUNAWAY SLAVE THROUGH THE NEWSPAPER WHICH WORRIES HUCK & TOM BECAUSE IT CAN GET BACK TOM S. WATSON. TOM DECIDES HE WANTS TO PUT THE REST OF HIS PLAN INTO ACTION, WRITING LETTERS FROM AN “UNKNOWN FRIEND” WARNING THE PHELPSES, WHICH WORRY THE FAMILY. ONE OF THE LONGER LETTERST OM WRITES HE PRETENDS TO BE FROM A MEMBER OF DESPERATE GANGSTERS WHO ARE PLANNING TO STEAL JIM . IN MUCH DETAIL, TOM WRITES HOW THEY WILL CAPTURE AND STEALJ IM IN THE LETTER. • QUOTE: “SO. TOM HE WROTE A NONNAMOUS LETTER, ANDI SMOUCHED THE YALLER WENCH’S FROCK THAT NIGHT, AND PUT IT ON, AND SHOVED IT UNDER THE FRONT DOOR, THE WAY TOM TOLD ME TO” (268).

CHAPTER 40 • PLOT: WHEN TOM AND HUCK ARRIVE BACK TO THE FARM, AUNT SALLY SENT THE TWO BED RIGHT AFTER DINNER, DUE TO HER CONFUSION WITH THE MYSTERIOUS LETTERL. ATER, HUCK GOES DOWN TO THE SETTINGROOM AND NOTICES THAT THERE ARE 15 FARMERS WITH GUNS GATHERED OUTSIDE H. E THEN GOES DOWN TO WARM JIM AND TOM, THEY ALL MANAGE TO GET OUT THROUGH A HOLET. HE BOYS SNEAK AROUND AND TRY LISTENING TO THE FARMERS THROUGH A CRACK. THEY HEAR FOOTSTEPS GETTING CLOSER SO THEY STEALTHY MOVED TOWARDS THE FENCE BUTT OM HAD STEPPED ON A BRANCH WHICH HAD MADE A LOUD SNAPPING NOISE. ONE OF THE FARMERS ASKS WHOS THERE AND INSISTS THAT IF THEY DON’T ANSWER, HE WILL SHOOT T. HEY BEGIN SHOOTING AT THE BOYS WHO ARE RUNNING AND THEY END UP SHOOTING T OM IN THE LEG. THEY END UP GETTING TO THE CANOE AND SET OFF TO THEIR RAFTT. HEY ARE ALL PLEASED WITH THEIR SUCCESS, EVENT OM WHO WAS THE GLADDEST WITH THE BULLET IN HIS LEGH. UCK AND JIM FEEL BAD FOR TOM AND ARE CONCERNED ABOUT HIS LEG. • QUOTE: “I KNOWED HE WAS WHITE INSIDE, ANDI RECKONED HE’D SAY WHAT HE DID SAY- SO IT WAS ALL RIGHT NOW, AND I TOLDT OM I WAS A-GOING FOR A DOCTOR” (275).

CHAPTER 41 • PLOT: H : UCK GOES TO FIND A DOCTOR WHILEJ IM AND TOM ARE LEFT ON THE ISLAND WITH THE RAFT. HUCK TAKES A CANOE THAT ONLY HOLD ONE PERSONT. HE NEXT MORNING SILAS FINDS HUCK AND TAKES HIM HOME. THERE HUCK DISCOVERS ALL THE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THE CONTENTS OF JIM’S SHED AND THE HOLET. HEY CONCLUDE THAT A BAND OF ROBBERS OF AMAZING SKILL MUST HAVE TRICKED NOT ONLY THEP HELPSES AND THEIR FRIENDS BUT ALSO THE ORIGINAL DESPERADOES WHO SENT THE LETTERS. ALLY REFUSES TO LET HUCK OUT TO FIND TOM (WHO SHE STILL THINKS ISS ID), SINCE SHE IS SO SAD TO HAVE LOST SID AND DOES NOT WANT TO RISK ANOTHER BOYH. UCK, TOUCHED BY HER CONCERN, VOWS NEVER TO HURT HER AGAIN. • QUOTE: “AND TWICE I WENT DOWN THE ROD AWAY IN THE NIGHT, AND SLIPPED AROUND THE FRONT, AND SEE HER SITTING THERE BY HER CANDLE IN THE WINDOW WHITE HER EYES TOWARDS THE ROAD AND THE TEARS IN THEM”(282).

CHAPTER 42 • PLOT: T UNT POLLY’S HOUSE WITH JIM(IN CHAINS) AND THE DOCTOR. : OM IS BROUGHT BACK TOA THE LOCAL MEN ARE CONTEMPLATING HANGINGJ IM, BUT THEY DON’T WANT TO PAY COMPENSATION TO HIS MASTER. THEN THE DOCTOR INTERVENES AND EXPLAINS HOWJ IM SACRIFICED HIS FREEDOM TO HELP NURSET OM. AS TOM GETS BETTER HE EXPLAINS HOW HE SET JIM FREE, UPON LEARNING THATJ IM WAS BEING LOCKED UP HE EXPLAINS THATM ISS WATSON FREED JIM BEFORE SHE DIED. THEN AUNT POLLY COMES INTO THE ROOM AND IDENTIFIES TOM AND HUCK. • QUOTE: “SO THERE I HAD TO STICK PLUMB UNTIL DAYLIGHT THIS MORNING; AND I NEVER SEE A N*GGER THAT WAS A BETTER NUSS OR FAITHFULER, AND YET HE WAS RISKING HIS FREEDOM TO DO IT, AND WAS ALL TIRED OUT, TOO, AND I SEE PLAIN ENOUGH HE’D BEEN WORKED MAIN HARD LATELY. I LIKED THE N*GGER FOR THAT I TELL ; YOU, GENTLEMEN, A N*GGER LIKE THAT IS WORTH A THOUSAND DOLLARS AND KIND TREATMENT TOO” (285).

CHAPTER THE LAST • PLOT: O : NCE JIM HAD BEEN “FREED”, TOM GAVE HIM $40 TO COMPENSATE FOR ALL HIS TROUBLES. ONCE AUNT SALLY AND THE PHELPSES HEARD ABOUT JIM’S SACRIFICE FOR TOM, HE WAS UNCHAINED IMMEDIATELY, AND SEEN AS A HEROJ. IM CLAIMED THAT THESE GOOD THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO HIM AS A RESULT OF HIS HAIRY CHEST- A SUPERSTITION OF HIS THAT HAS RENDERED TRUE. AS WELL AS THIS, THE DEAD BODY NEAR JACKSON’S ISLAND TURNED OUT TO BEH UCK'S FATHER, AND HE IS RELIEVED. AFTER ALL THIS, HUCK SETS OUT WEST AS SOON AS HE POSSIBLY COULD TO AVOID BEING “SIVILIZED” BYA UNT SALLY, SOMETHING HE EXPERIENCED ENOUGH WITH THE WIDOW. • QUOTE: “THEN THEY ALL AGREED THATJ IM HAD ACTED VERY WELL, AND WAS DESERVING TO HAVE SOME NOTICE TOOK OF IT, AND REWARD”(282).