Honesty In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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I am going to be honest before I start summarizing the chapters we were supposed to read. I only read and annotated 9 chapters which I started during the summer. When I had gotten my schedule that was when I stopped reading it after finding out I did not get your class the first semester. I did not finish.

In the beginning of the book, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it starts out with a group of kids having found a stash of money that some robbers had left behind in the run away. Since the children think that imagination is reality, they make themselves the actors of their favorite comic. Since they made themselves swear into the gang they made. Huck has to wait patiently until the moon light is shining to find Tom Sawyer and head out into

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