The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapter 1 Plot

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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 to God) 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 on 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 to Huck. Rumor that Huck’s Pa has been found dead, but it later turns out to be a woman dressed as a man. The 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, gets Judge Thatcher to take control of the money he has. Jim has the oracle ox hairball and tells Huck 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: Pa returns to see Huck, and is not very impressed by his clothes, and education. Pa goes to the Judge to get the money back, after Huck tells him he is not really rich (even though he technically is, but Thatcher has control of the money). Pa says he is trying to change, so the new judge takes him in and helps him. Pa then later gets drunk and goes back to normal. Thatcher claims the only real way Pa will be reformed is with a shotgun. Quote: “I’ll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father and let on to be better’n what he is” (19).

Chapter 6 Summary: Pap keeps Huck locked in a remote cabin, not wishing for him to be influenced by the town’s mannerisms. Pap frequently drinks and subsequently beats Huck, so Huck wants to get away from him. Huck finds a rusty saw and secretly creates a hole out of the cabin that can be covered by a blanket. Pap returns before Huck is able to finish the hole and Pap goes on a drunken rant about his distaste for a government that will let a Black man vote (this rant is Mark Twain directly making fun of corn-pone opinions). Pap awakens from a drunken slumber to chase Huck around with a knife, claiming Huck is the Angel of Death. Once his Pa falls back into a drunken slumber, Huck gets a shotgun and points it at Pa, waiting for him to awaken again. Quote: “A man can’t get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I’ve a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all. ” (26)

Chapter 7 Summary: Upon awakening, Pap asks Huck what he is doing with a gun, to which Huck lies, saying someone was trying to break into the cabin. Pap checks their fishing lines while Huck finds a canoe on the Mississippi river, which he takes and hides from Pap. Later, Pap goes to town to sell driftwood, so Huck continues his saw work. Huck escapes the cabin and takes everything worth value from it, placing it in his hidden canoe. Huck then proceeds to fake his own death using pig’s blood an ax. Huck heads down the river and passes Pap’s raft, heading to Jackson’s Island. Upon arriving Huck and watches his plan unfold, as, eventually, a large boat (presumably searching for Huck) comes floating down the river. Quote: “They won’t ever hunt the river for anything but my dead carcass. They’ll soon get tired of that, and won’t bother no more about me. ” (34)

Chapter 8 Plot: Huck wakes up on Jackson's Island to hear a ferryboat firing a cannon. He knows that this will bring a drowned body to the surface and realizes that they must be searching for him. Huck also remembers that another way to find a body is with a loaf of bread filled with quicksilver. He scouts the shoreline and finds a large loaf, then wonders if prayer really works. Confident that he is now safe, Huck explores the island until he stumbles upon fresh campfire ashes. Huck climbs a tree for safety but curiosity sends him back to the site, and he discovers Miss Watson's slave, Jim. After convincing Jim that he is not a ghost, Huck learns that Jim has run away because Miss Watson was going to sell him down the river to New Orleans. “I says, now I reckon the widow or the parson or somebody prayed that this bread would find me, and here it has gone and done it. So there ain’t no doubt but there is something in that thing-that is, there’s something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don’t work for me, and I reckon it don’t work for only just the right kind. ” (Huck Finn 37) This shows Huck’s growth because at the beginning of the book he didn't like what the widow was saying. But now he is at least starting to think about her teaching.

Chapter 9 Huck and Jim camp in a cave for a night while a storm goes on. After the storm they stumble inside a cabin and fine a dead person. Huck doesn't’t want to look at him so Jim covers him with rags. They raid the cabin for supplies and depart shortly after. “’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. ’” (Huck Finn 49) Huck is growing his relationship with Jim and getting to know him better along there journey.

Chapter 10 Jim tells Huck that he will have bad luck because he touched a snake-skin; Huck initially doesn’t believe this, because he has been having such great luck since he touched it. Huck later finds a rattlesnake in the cabin and kills it, but leaves it on the floor as a prank for Jim. A second rattlesnake appears and bites Jim, leaving him incapacitated for around four days. Huck decides he wants to visit town, so Jim suggests Huck go in the night, and dress as a girl to be inconspicuous. Huck finds a newcomer to the town, a middle-aged woman, and decides to talk to her to get news on the latest town events without being identified. “After breakfast I wanted to talk about the dead man and guess out how he come to be killed, but Jim didn’t want to. He said it would fetch bad luck… That sounded pretty reasonable, so I didn’t say no more…” Page 52

Chapter 11 Huck asks the woman about his murder, to which she says that the town believes Jim was the one who killed him, though it was more likely Pap killed him for his money. There have been decent rewards set out for Jim and Huck, $500 dollars total; The woman says she suspects Jim is on Jackson’s Island, so her husband is leaving at midnight to find him. After spending some time with Huck, the woman figures out Huck is a boy, and kindly sends him off to his pretend destination. Huck goes back to Jim in a hurry and they flee. “Most everybody thought it at first. He’ll never know how nigh he come to getting lynched. But before night they changed around and judged it was done by a runaway named Jim. ” Page 56

Chapter 12 Plot: Jim and Huck continue down the river between the Missouri mountains and the "heavy timber" of Illinois, hiding the raft during the day and running several hours at night. The fifth night after they pass St. Louis, they come upon a steamboat crippled on a rock. On board, they overhear voices and see that two men have tied up a third and are discussing his fate. When Jim tries to untie the men's skiff and trap them on the wreck, he discovers the raft has broken loose and floated away. While the men are inside the cabin, Huck and Jim take the skiff and leave the wreck. Eventually they find the raft and pull the skiff and the men's supplies up on the deck. Quote: It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed-only a little kind of a low chuckle. (Huck Finn 64, 65) This shows the rivers effect on Huck and Jim and how it will take its toll throughout the story as the river is a big part of it.

Chapter 13 Summary When they come upon a village, Huck finds a ferryboat watchman and begins another elaborate story. He tells him that his family is up on the steamboat wreck, which readers learn is named the Walter Scott. The man hurries off to sound the alarm with visions of a reward in front of him. Later that evening, Huck sees the wreck, which has come loose from the rocks and is quietly sinking as it drifts down the river. Now was the first time that I begun to worry about the men-I reckon I hadn’t had time to before. I begun to think how dreadful it was, even for murderers, to be in suck a fix. ” (Huck Finn 72) Huck has sympathy for murderers which shows how he has grown as a character and is better than his father.

Chapter 14 Plot: This chapter starts out with huck and Jim finding clothes, books, and other things from the robbers bounty. After that they both relax in the woods waiting for night. While they are waiting huck and Jim discuss their adventure and jim says he does not like adventures because he could have died or been captured. Then huck begins to tell Jim about a king named Solomon and Jim thinks the king is a fool for wanting to chop a baby in half but huck tries to convince Jim that the kid was still alive wandering around America. Huck goes on to tell jim of the other kings and tells Jim that they don't speak english but speak a different language and Jim does not believe him. Quote: “They just set around-except, maybe, when there’s a war; then they go to war. But other times they just lazy around”(77)

Chapter 15 This chapter starts off with Huck and Jim planing to go to Cairo where they would sell the raft and get on a steam boat and go north to the free states. the next day a fog rolls in and huck gets in the canoe to go to the towhead to tie the raft to but the raft hits a current and breaks the rope connecting the canoe to it and huck and Jim get separated. After huck and Jim find each other huck decides to prank Jim and say they were never separated and says it was all just a dream and Jim believes it. After this huck feels bad for lying to Jim so he goes and apologizes to him. “I see the fog closing down, and it made me so sick and scared I couldn't budge for most a half a minute it seemed to me-and then there warn’t no raft in sight; you couldn't see twenty yards. ”(87)

Chapter 16 Plot: Huck and Jim continue their expedition to Cairo. Huck can’t help but feel guilty of helping Jim escape Miss Watson who Huck respected. Jim talks about his plan to buy his family to freedom or have them taken to him by abolitionists, when he his free. They then come across a town to what they think to be Cairo. Jim feels grateful because Huck has been Jim’s only friend who kept a promise. Huck goes out on the canoe and encounters two men searching for runaway slaves. In order to repel them, Huck explains that his family is back on his raft suffering from small pox. Out of sympathy, the men give Huck some money. Huck again feels bad lying and receiving the money. Jim and Huck continue to pass several towns and begin to worry they missed Cairo. Huck plans to go back and look the next morning, only to find that the canoe has been stolen. Later, their raft collides with a steamboat separating Jim and Huck swims to shore and his jumped by a pack of dogs. Quote: “Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on; s’pose you’d a done right and give Jim up, would you felt better than what you do now? No, says I, I’d feel bad –I’d fell just the same way I do now. Well, then, says I, What's the use you learning to do right when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to do wrong” This is a satirical statement where Twain criticizes society with Irony of troublesome being right. In this case it is Huck would feel bad turning in Jim. Hence expressing the absurdity of slavery with the situation in which Huck feels the urge to not follow society.

Chapter 17 Plot: A man calls off the dogs he sends after Huck, who greets the man by the name “George Jackson”. When the man expresses that he suspects that Huck is a Shepherdson but “George” convinces the man that “Huck” isn’t a Shepherdson. The man’s son, Buck, tells both the man and Huck that if there were any Shepherdson around, he would have killed them. The man’s family, the Grangerfords, allow Huck to stay however long he needs and Huck accepts, innocently admiring the house. Including the work of the deceased daughter, Emmeline. Quote: “Poor Emmeline made poetry about all the dead people when she was alive, and it didn't seem right that there warn’t nobody to make some about her now she was gone; so I tried to sweat out a verse or two myself, but I couldn't seem to make it go somehow” (104). Huck is starting to become more compassionate. Earlier in the book, he wasn't fazed by people dying. Now, he feels bad for Emmeline and all of the poems she wrote for people, so he tries to make one for her

Chapter 18 Plot: While at the Grangerford residence, he meets the head of the household: Colonel Grangerford, and Huck makes observations about the family being perfect and “beautiful”, as opposed to his family. After seeing Buck try to shoot a man riding by on his horse, he learns that this family has a feud with another family, the Shepherdsons, because they shot down one of their cousins before. Huck attends church with the Grangerfords, and sees a note that says “‘half-past two’” in the book that the Grangerford daughter--Sophia-- asks him to retrieve. The family’s slave leads Huck to Jim after Church to his surprise. Jim tells Huck that he didn’t want to follow Huck up to the house after the crash because of the fear of enslavement. The next day, Huck finds out that Sophia ran away with a Shepherdson, and the two families have a shoot out, killing all the Grangerfords, and a majority of the Shepherdsons. Huck feels so much guilt and sorrow that when he sees Jim after the commotion, he gives him a hug Quote: “‘Well, ’ says Buck, ‘a feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man’s brother kills him; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the cousins chip in—and by everybody’s killed off, and there ain’t no more feud. But it’s kind of slow, and takes a long time. ’” (Huck Finn 100) “I was powerful glad to get away from the feuds, and so was Jim to get away from the swamp. We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. ” (Huck Finn 107)

Chapter 19 Plot: Jim and Huck continue to travel along the river. They meet two men that beg to get on the raft and take them a mile down the river. The men end up being con artists and they trick Jim and Huck into believing that they are the long lost son of King Louis XVI of France. Jim and Huck then treat them as loyalty, however Huck soon realizes they are lying and continues to play along in order to prevent a fight. Quote: “Well, he cried and took on so that me and Jim didn’t know hardly what to do, we was so sorry-and so glad and proud we’d got him with us, too. So we set in, like we done before with the duke, and tried to comfort him. ” (124) -

Chapter 20 Plot: The duke and the dauphin ask whether Jim is a runaway slave. Huck makes up a story about how he was orphaned and tells them that they have been forced to travel at night. That night, the duke and the dauphin take Huck’s and Jim’s beds while Huck and Jim watch the storm. They reach the town and find that everyone in the town has left for a religious festival. The duke also prints up a “handbill” (Reward for bringing in Jim). Quote: “When we got there, there warn’t nobody stirring; streets empty, and perfectly dead and still, like Sunday. ” (p. 98) Huck describes the importance of religion in the southern town that they stumble upon. The townspeople all left there homes and jobs to attend church even though it was not even Sunday.

Chapter 21 Plot: The Duke and King practice there Shakespeare acting. In a lot of their acts, they mix up several different Shakespeare plays with each other making their acts completely wrong despite the duke’s supposed intelligence surrounding the subject. Upon the arrival of a small town in Arkansas they prepare playbills promoting their performance by labeling themselves with the names of famous Shakespearean actors. The town turns out to be a very run down area. Not a place where Huck and his crew would want to show off their acting. The people there loiter and argue over tobacco. One person named Boggs is tremendously drunk and insults another man named Sherburn outside his store. Sherburn threatens to kill Boggs if he doesn’t leave. Boggs still impaired, doesn’t listen and as a result, Sherburn shoots Boggs, killing him while his daughter was present. The incident creates a scene of re enactments of the event and a mob that go to hang Sherburn. Quote: He see me, and rode up and says: ‘Whar’d you come f’m, boy? You prepared to die? ’ Then he rode on. I was scared, but a man says: ‘He don’t mean nothing; he’s always a-carryin’ on like that when he’s drunk. He’s the naturedest old fool in Arkansaw- never hurt nobody, drunk nor sober. ” The way the community reacts to a drunk person going around casually threating to kill people is really ironic. They act ignorant of any dangers someone like that could bring, while in theory it is typically something to fear and avoid as Huck does.

Chapter 22 Plot: The mob knocks down the front fence of Sherburn’s house. Sherburn greets the mob from his porch, pointing a rifle at them. He claims those within the mob are cowards and would not have the guts to face him in daylight. The mob then leaves. Huck goes to the circus and sees a performer trying to ride a horse, the crowd is laughing however Huck is concerned that the man is in danger. Twelve people attend the duke’s performance and make fun of the show. He prints another handbill to advertise a performance of the King’s Giraffe. The ticket prohibits women and children from entering the show. Quote: “You didn’t want to come. The average man don’t like trouble and danger. You don’t like trouble and danger… you’re afraid to back down--- afraid you’ll be found out to be what you are--cowards. ” (147)

Chapter 23 Plot: The duke performs “The Royal Nonesuch”, , covered in paint with no clothing. After the audience have a couple laughs, they are displeased with the length of the show at the end, and realize they were ripped off. As they were about to storm the stage, a man tells them to wait and tell the others of the town, so they will get scammed too, and be ready to get revenge as a whole. On the second night, there is a full audience, who all got scammed like the day before. In the final performance before the actual start, Huck and the duke run to the raft to avoid getting pummeled by unpleasing items from the crowd. The next day Huck sees Jim sadly thinking about his children and wife. He concludes that Jim cares about his family as much as white people do, even if it doesn’t seem natural. Quote: “‘I knew the first house would keep mum and let the rest of the town get roped in; and I knew they’d lay for us the third night, and consider it was their turn now. Well, it IS their turn, and I’d give something to know how much they’d take for it. , ’” (Huck Finn 140)

Chapter 24 Plot: Duke and King began to lay out a plan for working in then towns. Jim hopes it doesn’t take but a few hours Jim dresses robe and blue face paint and posts a sign on him that reads, “Sick Arab—but harmless when not out of his head. ” The Duke and the King play as Brothers while one of them are deaf and dumb, Arriving in Wilks’s hometown, the duke and the dauphin ask for Wilks and feign anguish when told of his death. The dauphin even makes strange hand gestures to the duke, feigning sign language. The scene is enough to make Huck “ashamed of the human race. ” Quote: "It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race" pg 163

Chapter 25 Plot: A crowd gathers and heads to Wilks home to watch Wilks’s three nieces tearfully greet the duke and the dauphin, who they believe to be their English uncles. Then, they hand all the money over to the Wilks sisters in a great show before a crowd of townspeople. Huck starts to feel bad because the Duke and King are about to steal money so he tells Mary Jane about the duke and the king about their plan. Then Doctor Robinson, an old friend of the dead dude , interrupts to question the duke and the dauphin as frauds, noting that their accents are ridiculously FAKE. He asks Mary Jane, the eldest Wilks sister, to listen to him as a friend and BUST the impostors. In reply, Mary Jane hands the dauphin a bag of money telling them to invest. Then they try to prove that they are the Brothers of the dead dude by answering questions Quote:

Chapter 26 The Duke, King, and Huck are staying at the Wilk’s house. Later that night, the townspeople had a big supper. Huck encounter a conversation with Joanna who he called the “hare-lip”. She questioned him about England, Huck begins to forget his responses from previous questions, Joanna realizes he was lying. Mary Jane approaches, tells Joanna to be courteous to guests, Huck feels guilty about stealing the girl's money, he decided to get their money back. Huck went to king’s room, overheard two men talked about selling the house. After they left, Huck found the money, and took it. Quote: ‘Because Mary Jane ‘ll be i the mourning from this out; and first you know the nigger that does up the rooms will get an order to box these duds up and put ‘em away; and do you reckon a nigger can run across money and not borrow some of it. ”’(178) Analysis: The duke is saying that all black people can’t do any nice deed for a white person without stealing from them, but this obviously isn’t true. Mark twain is criticizing that society would automatically welcome white strangers, even if they are the most wanted criminals but wouldn’t welcome a black person.

Chapter 27 Huck is trying to get away with the money but hears a noise and has to hide the gold in the coffin with Peter’s body. He then hides to avoid being seen and finds that the noise was Mary Jane. While Mary is crying over Peters coffin, Huck sneaks out the door worrying about how he is going to get the money back. Luckily for Huck, at the funeral the undertaker nails the coffin closed without looking inside. The King left early and sold the girls’ slaves to whoever will buy them, even if the. Ir families are broken apart. Then the next day the King and Duke interrogate Huck about the stolen money and Huck blames it on the slaves that were just sold so that they can take the blame without being punished. Quote: ‘He had a rat!. . . There warn’t no more popular man in town than what that undertaker was. ”’ (182) Analysis: Twain uses dark humor the be satirical of death and how it was presented. When the funeral is interrupted, everyone draws their attention away from the person who died, and turns towards a rat because they were just following the natural progression of the disturbance.

Chapter 28 Plot: The chapter starts off with Huck walking in on Mary Jane packing her bags for her trip to England. He sees that Mary is crying because the Wilks slaves are being sold and that the slave families are being separated. Since lying in this case would be a bad thing to do Huck proceeds to blurt out that the slave families will see each other in two weeks. After this Huck also says that the duke and king are frauds, he proposes a plan to get them jailed but he doesn’t want Mary to tell the duke and king so she sends her to Mr. Lothrop to spend the night. They also have to be really careful because Jim's life is at stake. Huck gives Mary a piece of paper with “Royal None-such Bricksville” written on it so she can show it to the people of Bricksville in the morning. Huck tells Mary where he hid the gold so she can grab it on her way to Mr. Lothrop. Quote: “Saying them words put a good idea in my head. I see how maybe I could get me and jim rid of the frauds; get them jailed here, and then leave. ”(188)

Chapter 29 Plot: This chapter starts off the real Harvey Wilks explaining why him and his brother were delayed. To prove that the real brothers were who they say they are both the frauds and the real Wilks are taken to a tavern for examination. A lawyer then examines Harvey's handwriting and exposes the duke and king. The duke then says that he was playing a practical joke on everyone by disguising his handwriting. To finally prove that the real Wilks brothers are who they say they are, Harvey says that he knows a tattoo on his deceased brothers chest. When the coffin is opened they find the $6, 000 of gold in the coffin. Through the riot Huck is able to escape to the raft with Jim and set sail once again. They then see the duke and king coming up behind them in a boat. Quote: “I am Peter Wilks’s brother Harvey, and this is his brother William”(196)

Chapter 30 Plot: After Huck and Jim escape the angry mob, they go to the raft and leave. As they leave the dauphin and the duke approach them. The dauphin angrily strangles Huck because they were trying to escape. The Duke and Dauphin start to blame each other for hiding the gold in the coffin and begin to kind of fight each other. Dauphin “confesses” just to get the duke to stop strangling him. They calmed down and went to sleep. Quote: “The man that had a-holt of me was very good to me, and kept saying he had a boy about as big as me that died last year, and he was sorry to see a boy in such a dangerous fix. ” (206) Analysis: This is possibly foreshadowing how the duke may treat Huck and might do something because he reminds him of his son. “That made me feel easy and satisfied. Of course when they got to snoring we had a long gabble, and I told Jim everything. ” (209) Analysis: This quote shows that Huck is being more “attached” and friendly to Jim. They seem to be more friends and Huck seems to be more comfortable around Jim because the use of “of course” kind of tells that Huck obviously would tell Jim.

Chapter 31 Plot: The duke, dauphin, Huck, and Jim raft down the river for many days to get away from the rumors as far as possible. The dauphin and the duke go town trying to con people but they had no luck and became broke. The dauphin and the duke began to talking to each other secretly and quietly which made Huck and Jim because they could be making any type of plan. Huck and Jim thought they were making robbery plans which they didn’t want a part of so they decided to leave the duke and dauphin. The duke brought Huck to a tavern and the duke got into a fight and Huck decided to leave back to Jim. When Huck returned Jim was no where to be seen. A boy came along and told Huck that a man took Jim to be sold for the $200 bond he had on him for being a runaway slave. But the handbill was the same paper that the duke printed earlier. Then the boy told Huck that the person who captured Jim sold him to a farmer named Silas Phelps for $40. Huck realizes it was the dauphin. Huck contemplates whether he should write to tom Sawyer to tell Miss Watson on where Jim is to get him because he realizes that miss Watson would just sell Jim anyways and Huck’s story would be found out that he helped a slave escape. But after he thinks about all of the good times he has had with Jim and how nice he is, he decides to go out and look for Jim. Huck eventually runs into the duke and the duke almost tells him where Jim actually is but tells him Jim is in a place about 40 miles away. Quote: “And he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only he’s got now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper. It was close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: “All right, then, I’ll go to hell”– and tore it up” (214) Analysis: Huck seems to fully like Jim and accept him for who he is even knowing the consequences. Their friendship has grown and so has Huck is willing to go find a rescue Jim while knowing he may be shunned and punished for helping an African American/slave.

Chapter 32 Plot: Huck plans on freeing Jim from a family (Silas Phelps) that bought Jim from the Dauphin and the Duke. The family was expecting the nephew to come visit as Huck shows up and pretends to be that nephew. In discussion with the family it is revealed that they are waiting for their nephew, Tom Sawyer, who at this point Huck was pretending to be. Quote: “She grabbed me and hugged me tight; and then gripped me by both hands and shook; and the tears come in her eyes, and run down over; and she couldn't seem to hug and shake enough” (220). Analysis: Aunt Sally is so quick to greet Huck as if she remembers him and treats him like family. This is ironic because it shows how white people can greet other white but don’t think twice about separating black families.

Chapter 33 Plot: Huck meets Tom and Tom thinks Huck is a ghost. Later on Tom is convinced that Huck is not a ghost. He then agrees to help Huck free Jim. Tom follows Huck to the Phelps house a half-an-hour later. The family is thrilled to have another guest. Tom introduces himself as William Thompson from Ohio. Tom leans over and kisses Aunt Sally in the middle of dinner, and she nearly slaps him. Laughing, Tom pretends that he is his own half-brother, Sid. Later on Tom and Huck sneak out the house and witness a mob of townspeople running the duke and the dauphin out of town on a rail. Quote: “Well, it made me sick to see it; and I was sorry for them poor pitiful rascals, it seemed like I couldn’t even feel any hardness against them any more in the world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cruel to one another. Analysis: Huck wants to save the king and the duke that the town people are going to punish them is some form. In reality, tarring and feathering is a cruel punishment and Huck is feeling sorry for the king and the duke. Ironically if they were the slaves, they would have been just as cruel if not just as worst to them.

Chapter 34 Plot: Tom remembers seeing a man bringing foods to the hut everyday on the Phelps farmhouse. Huck plans was to grab the key to hut, steal Jim and escape on the raft but Tom thought it easy. Tom wants to dig Jim out from the hut. The boys followed the man to hut, is one of Phelps slave, Nat who is superstitious. Huck and Tom told Jim that they were going to free him. Quote: “Jim only had time to grab us by the hand squeeze it, then the slave come back, and we said we’d come again some time if the slave wanted us to; and he said he would, more particular if it was dark, because the witches went for him mostly in the dark, and it was good to have folks around then”(179) Analysis: Even though Tom and Huck have sympathy for Jim because he’s their friend, they still view him and slaves in general as unintelligent people, who are at the bottom of the social class.

Chapter 35 Plot: Huck and Tom start to plan out Jim’s escape but Tom insists on many complicated ideas. Tom acts as the adventure expert in the planning of the escape because of his experience with adventure books. Huck is weary of Toms ideas because they’re all so out of the way and very extra. Tom even goes as far as to suggest that they should cut Jim’s leg off instead of lifting the bed up to get the chain off. He alao says that they should dig a moat so the story of his escape is more interesting. As Huck questions many parts of Tom’s plan, Tom insists that it is simply Huck being dumb about how to properly break a slave out. Quote: “ I called it borrowing, because that was what pap always called it; but Tom said it warn’t borrowing it was stealing. He said he was representing prisoners. ”(183) Analysis: Here Twain is criticizing how society thinks it doesn’t matter if you steal from a slave because you're just “borrowing” it. Huck doesn’t know the difference because he’s been influenced by pap to believe so, but Tom tries to tell him that what he’s doing is wrong.

Chapter 36 Plot: Late at night, Tom and Huck give up digging with the knives and switch to pick-axes instead, eventually getting to Jim. The next day, they gather candlesticks, spoons, and tin plates. Tom says that Jim can write messages on the tin plate using the other objects, then throw it out the window for the world to read. He tells them that Sally and Silas have been to visit and pray with him. Jim does not understand the boys plan but agrees to go along. Tom convinces Jim’s keeper, Nat, who believes witches are haunting him, that the only cure is to bake a “witch pie” and give it to Jim. Tom plans to bake a rope ladder into the pie. Quote: “Picks is the thing, moral or no moral; and as for me, I don't care shucks for the morality of it, nohow. When I start in to steal a nigger, or a watermelon, or a Sunday-school book, I aint no ways particular how its done so its done. What I want is my nigger. . . and I don't give a dead rat what authorities thinks about it nuther”. Page 246 Analysis: This shows the relationship between Huck and Jim and how overtime Huck develops emotions for him. This also shows how Huck feels responsible for Jim's situation because of their friendship.

Chapter 37 Plot: In an attempt to get Jim supplies, Huck and Tom steal some household items from Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas’s home but confuses the aunt and uncle into believing that they have either misplaced them or lost them because of their memory, or that the rats have entered their home and have taken them. As an example, Huck and Tom went into the cellar and sealed up the rat holes into the home, unbeknownst to Uncle Silas who went into the cellar and noticed all the rat holes have been sealed. Uncle Silas at that point says out loud, ‘“Well, for the life of me I can’t remember when I done it”. Also, in an attempt to get a rope to Jim, they baked a witch pie in which the pie had a rope inside of it. It was delivered to Jim as part of his meals. Quote: “So we was all right now, as to the shirt and the sheet and the spoon and the candles, by the help of the calf and the rats and the mixed-up counting; and as to the candlestick, it warn’t no consequence, it would blow over by and by. ” (256). Analysis: Huck and Tom succeed in convincing the family that all the items were lost or misplaced and that as time goes by they will forget about them. It shows Tom is mischievous and a schemer.

Chapter 38 Summary Tom and Huck discuss that they cannot rescue Jim until Jim leaves an inscription and his coat of arms behind. Huck begins making his “pen” out of a spoon, and Jim begins making his out of some brass (pens to mark and leave an inscription behind), while Tom begins to think of a compromise for Jim’s lack of a coat of arms. Tom finishes ideas for the coat of arms and it reads. . . 1. Here a captive heart busted 2. Here a poor prisoner, forsook by the world and his friends, fretted out his sorrowful life 3. Here a lonely heart broke, and a worn spirit went to its rest, after thirty-seven years of solitary captivity 4. Here, homeless and friendless, after thirty-seven years of bitter captivity, perished a noble stranger, natural son of Louis XIV Jim is to pick one of the four but can’t make up his mind on which one to scrabble onto the wall so he picks all of them. Because Jim picks all four, the process would be too slow and take too long to finish, so Tom and Huck come up with the idea to get a rock that will be used for the coat of arms and the mournful inscriptions and to file the pens and saw on it. They then head to the nearby big grindstone down by the mill and retrieve it. Tom implies to Jim that every prisoner must have a dumb pet and so he suggests to him a rattlesnake, a spider, and a rat, all of which Jim refuses to have. Jim then thinks of growing a flower in his “room” and Tom suggests he waters it with his own tears and call it Pitchiola. Quote: “I know how to fix it. We got to have a rock for the coat of arms and mournful inscriptions, and we can kill two birds with that same rock” (234) When Jim chooses all four sentences for the coat of arms, the boys realize that inscribing it will take a while, but Tom and Huck come up with an idea to make the process go by faster. This shows Tom, Huck, and Jim’s relationship together is strengthening, as they are willing to go the extra mile to help each other out.

Chapter 39 Summary Huck and Tom are on a mission to find all the critters around Aunt Sally’s house. In doing so, they come upon some huge rats that they caught in their trap and was later mistakenly released under her bed by little Thomas Franklin Benjamin Jefferson Elexander Phelps. Huck and Tom also captured snakes that would later be put in Jim’s cabin but due to the untighten knot that was holding the snakes, they went everywhere throughout the house which led to Aunt Sally having a heart attack when she saw a snake. While Jim was being terrorized with all these creatures, Tom and Huck had to finalize their plan on running away with Jim. They wrote little notes and letters to Aunt Sally scaring her so badly causing her to be very frightful everywhere she went. To top things off, they wrote another letter claiming that they were the Cutthroats and that they will steel Jim and they do not want anyone trying to defend him. “Next night we stuck a picture which Tom drawed in blood, of a skull and crossbones, on the front door; and next night another one of a coffin, on the back door. ” (242) “There is a desperate gang of cutthroats from over in the Ingean Territory going to steal your runaway [slave]. . Don’t do anything but just the way i am telling you, if you do they will suspicion something and raise whoopjamboreehoo” (243) These quotes shows how Tom terrorizes his family in an immature way which could cause Jim’s escape to be ruin. It would be better if there were no notes so that they could escape in secrecy

Chapter 40 Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas were very surprised by the mysterious letter they got so they sent Tom and Huck off to bed. The men attacked the shed, Jim, Huck and tom escape through the hole they cut in the wall. Tom hit the fence and made a noise so the men shot at them and they ran but Tom got shot in the leg. Quote: “ I knowed he was white inside, and I reckoned he’d say what he did say-so it was all right now, and I told Tom i was a-goin for a doctor, ” (Twain 275) Analysis: Huck says Jim is white inside meaning that Jim actually cares. Huck told Tom he was going to find a doctor to fix his wound.

Chapter 41 Plot: Huck gets the doctor, but the doctor doesn't think Huck's canoe is big enough for two people and so he takes it and goes to find a bigger one, then he falls asleep and when he wakes up, it is the next day. He starts to run back to the raft, but runs into Uncle Silas, who questions him about where he and Tom have been. Huck makes up a story about how he and Tom were out looking for the runaway slave and that now Tom is at the post office trying to find out some information. They go to the post office, but Tom obviously isn't there. Uncle Silas gets a letter and they leave to go home. Uncle Silas says to let Tom come home on foot. When they reach home, everybody is there for dinner. They all talk about the crazy things they found in Jim’s cabin. They think Jim must have been crazy. Uncle Silas and Aunt Sally realize that Tom still isn't home yet, so Uncle Silas goes to the town to look for Tom. He doesn't find him and tells Aunt Sally that he'll probably be back in the morning. Huck goes to bed and sneaks out a couple of times, with the intention of going down to the river to look for Tom. He never does because he feels guilt in putting Aunt Sally through more pain. He sees her sitting at the window the whole night with the candle burning, waiting for Tom to come home. – Quote: “when we got home Aunt Sally was that glad to see me she laughed and cried both, and hugged me, and give me one of them lickings of hern that don’t amount to shucks, and said she’d serve Tom the same when he come. ” (41. 279) Analysis: We chose this quote because it shows how Aunt Sally is very caring to the boys and loves them even after doing what they did, overall it’s better than how Pap’s treated Huck.

Chapter 42 Plot: Tom was finally waking up from his medical conditions of having a bullet getting shot into his leg. When he was waking up, he was kind of clueless, and thought that his mission with Huck was completed. Tom then later spilled all the beans on how they “completed” their mission of setting Jim free and how Tom and Huck were lying about their identities. Aunt Sally was so confused and just right after that Aunt Polly came in to make the situation even worse, she thought Tom was Sid and Huck was Tom. In the end, Aunt Polly said that Tom was right about Jim being free. It was in her will and this is why Aunt Polly was there because she wanted to see how he was doing because Aunt Sally was not writing back to her due to Tom and Huck hiding the letters. Quote: “And his Aunt Polly she said Tom was right about old Miss Watson setting Jim free in her will; and so, sure enough, Tom Sawyer had gone and took all that trouble and bother to set a free [slave] free!” (261) Analyzing this quote told me that Huck and Tom were working for months and hours “trying” to help free Jim when he was already free. In the end, Tom and Huck really cared about Jim and wanted to make sure that he would be certainly free and not get snatched from other plantation owners.

Chapter The Last Plot: Huck recollects everything that him, Tom, and Jim have gone through to reunite back together. Tom feels bad for making Jim wait so long during the process of the escape and so Tom gives Jim forty dollars for being so patient during the process. Tom then tells Huck and Jim that he dreams that they could all leave where they are so they could go and do howling adventures among the Injuns and they would all buy outfits for their adventures. Huck then says he won’t be able to afford an outfit for their adventures because Pap stole all the money from Judge Thatcher and already used it all to drink, but then Mark Twain reveals the most insane plot twist/call-back of all time…It turns out that the “dead” man found in the house floating down the river (in Chapter 9) that Jim told Huck not to look at was actually Pap and that the money is still safe and he can afford an outfit for their adventures. The chapter then ends with Tom feeling well and good and Huck gets adopted by Aunt Sally so she can civilize him. Quote: “And then Tom he talked along, and says, le’s all three slide out of here, one of these nights, and get an outfit, and go for howling adventures amongst the Injuns, over in the Territory” (263) This shows that the three of them (Huck, Tom, and Jim) have bonded so well and come to respect each other that they want to spend more time together even after all of the madness that they have all been through