THE STORY SO FAR…
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
CHAPTER 1
 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
 Huck and Tom find $6000 each
 Huck lives with Widow Douglas and Miss Watson because
they are going to “civilize” him
 Hypocritical: Widow Douglas disapproves of smoking but
she smokes snuff
 The adults are too strict; Huck wants to be free
 Huck accidently kills a spider
 Superstition: bad luck will occur (foreshadowing)
 Huck sneaks out from Widow Douglas’s house
 Onomatopoeia: me-yow me-yow
CHAPTER 2
 Tom plays a joke on Jim, Miss Watson’s slave
 Puts Jim’s hat on a tree
 Superstition: Jim blames it on witches
 Tom creates “Tom Sawyer’s Gang”
 Tom is bossy, leader, violent (child but acts like an
adult)
 Tom is imaginative, dreamer vs Huck is realistic
 Huck offers Miss Watson as family (sacrifice) if he
tells the gang’s secrets
 Huck does not like Miss Watson much
CHAPTER 3
 Miss Watson is strict with Huck but Widow Douglas is more
caring
 Huck prefers Widow Douglas’s Providence
 Huck wants to go to hell to be away from Miss Watson and to
be with Tom
 Huck does not understand prayer/ religion
 Religion does not help him to live everyday life (not realistic)
 Superstition: Huck walks under a ladder
 Townspeople believe that Pap drowned but Huck does not
believe it
 Huck has good instinct
 The Tom Sawyer Gang resign because nothing happens
CHAPTER 4
 Huck finds a footprint
 Foreshadowing: looks like Pap’s boot tracks
 Huck is intelligent: “sells” his money to Judge
Thatcher
 Jim tells Huck a fortune with a hairball
 Superstition
 Symbolism: black angel and white angel
 Huck comes home and finds Pap in his room
CHAPTER 5
 Pap is dirty, hairy, and pale white
 A drunkard (alcoholic)
 Needs money to buy more drinks
 Huck dislikes Pap
 The new judge wants Huck to live with Pap
 The law cannot/does not protect the weak and
innocent
 The new judge tries to reform/change Pap
 Pap pretends he is changed (superficial, fake)
 Takes advantage of a good-doer for money
CHAPTER 6
 Pap wants Huck to quit school
 Does not want his son to be better than him
 Connection to race
 Kidnaps Huck and takes him upriver
 Pap’s beatings are too much and Huck decides to
escape
 Pap gets extremely drunk and blames the
government (gov’t) for his problems
 Racism: Angry at the positive treatment of African
Americans
 Foreshadowing: calls Huck the “Angel of Death”
CHAPTER 7
 Huck finds a drifting canoe
 Huck is resourceful
 Huck escapes
 Takes food and supplies and puts them in the canoe
 Fakes his own death by killing a wild pig and using
its blood -> does not want people to look for him
 Show’s Huck’s intelligence
 Goes to Jackson’s Island
CHAPTER 8
 Huck realizes that people are looking for his dead
body
 Superstition: fill a loaf of bread with quicksilver
(poison) to find a drowned body
 Hypocrisy of the townspeople
 Huck finds Jim
 Jim ran away because Miss Watson is planning sell
him for $800
 Racism/ Slavery
CHAPTER 9
 There is a large storm
 Jim’s prediction in chapter 8 comes true
 Religion vs. Superstition
 Huck and Jim find a house floating and a dead body
inside
 Jim won’t let Huck see the body
 Jim as an adult figure
 Compare to Pap, Widow Douglas and Miss Watson,
Townspeople
CHAPTER 10
 Jim tells Huck that it is bad luck to touch a snake
 Superstition
 Huck plays a prank on Jim
 Jim gets bitten by a snake and is sick for days
 Huck feels bad, grows compassion towards Jim
 Huck realizes the danger of defying superstition and
Jim’s knowledge
 Huck disguises as a girl to hear of the town news
CHAPTER 11
 Huck introduces himself as “Sarah Williams from
Hookerville”
 Hears news about his “death”
 Jim is suspected of murdering Huck $300 reward
 Pap is suspected of murdering Huck $200 reward
 Men are going to hunt Jim to get the money
 Huck and Jim leave Jackson Island
CHAPTER 12
 Huck and Jim continue down the river
 Peaceful and easygoing
 Symbolism: weather and nature
 The two find a steamboat caught on a rock from a
storm and decide to explore
 Two men on the ship have tied down another man
and are threatening him
 Compare to Tom’s pretend gang of robbers
 When Huck tries to prevent the men from escaping,
Jim finds that the raft has floated away
 Huck and Jim are scared but still trying to do good
CHAPTER 13
 Huck and Jim find the raft again
 Steals provisions from the gang
 Begins to storm
 “I begun to worry about the men… I begun to think
how dreadful it was, even for murderers, to be in such
a fix” (p72).
 Huck creates an elaborate story to tell the watchman
about the steamboat
 Steamboat is named the Walter Scott
 Ferryman hurries to the rescue for a “reward”
CHAPTER 14
 Huck and Jim share knowledge
 Friendship, partnership
 “Well, he was right; he was most always right; he had
an uncommon level head, for a nigger” (p76).
 “I read considerable to Jim about kings, and dukes,
and earls and such” (p76).
 Huck and Jim decide that they do not take stock in
King Sollermun’s (Solomon) wisdom
 King Solomon is supposed to be the wisest man alive
(bible)
 They (kings) just sit around, whack heads off, keeps
harems
 “A harem’s a bo’d’n-house, I reck’n” (p77).
STUDY QUESTIONS 10-14
1. What is in the two story house that floats by
Jackson’s Island?
2. Why does Huck dress as a girl to go ashore? What
does he find out?
3. What is the name of the ship in which Huck and
Jim find murderers?
4. What do we learn about Jim from his talking about
“King Sollermun”?