The story begins in St. Petersburg, Missouri, on the shore of the Mississippi River (1830-1840). Huck Finn, first-person narrator , and his friend, Thomas Sawyer, have together collected a considerable sum of money as a result of their past adventures. While sitting together Huck explains to Tom how he is placed under the guardianship of the Widow Douglas, who, together with her stringent sister, Miss Watson, are attempting to civilize him and teach him religion which Huck Finds confining and thinks of leaving Widow douglas’s house and run away . His hopes are raised somewhat when Thomas explains that he can help him in escaping. One night past Miss Watson's slave Jim, Huck meets with Tom's gang of self-proclaimed "robbers." Just as the gang's activities begin to bore Huck, he is suddenly interrupted by the reappearance of his father,
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Huck’s father forcibly moves Huck to his isolated cabin in the woods along the Illinois shoreline. Pap beats up Huck in a drunken state and imprisons Huck inside the cabin. Huck, during his father's absence, fakes his own death and escapes the cabin, and sets off down river. He then reaches Jackson's Island. Here, Huck reunites with Jim, Miss Watson's slave. Jim has also run away after he overheard Miss Watson planning to sell him "down the river" to presumably more brutal owner. Jim makes his way to the town of Cairo in Illinois, a free State, so that he can later buy the rest of his enslaved family's freedom. At first, Huck is conflicted about the sin and crime of supporting a runaway slave. As the two talk in depth and bond over their mutually held superstitions. Huck gets emotionally connected with Jim, who becomes Huck's close friend and guardian. After heavy flooding on the river, the two find a raft as well as an entire house floating on the river. Entering the house to seek loot, Jim finds a dead body of a man lying on the floor, shot in the back. He prevents Huck from viewing the
Huck’s father forcibly moves Huck to his isolated cabin in the woods along the Illinois shoreline. Pap beats up Huck in a drunken state and imprisons Huck inside the cabin. Huck, during his father's absence, fakes his own death and escapes the cabin, and sets off down river. He then reaches Jackson's Island. Here, Huck reunites with Jim, Miss Watson's slave. Jim has also run away after he overheard Miss Watson planning to sell him "down the river" to presumably more brutal owner. Jim makes his way to the town of Cairo in Illinois, a free State, so that he can later buy the rest of his enslaved family's freedom. At first, Huck is conflicted about the sin and crime of supporting a runaway slave. As the two talk in depth and bond over their mutually held superstitions. Huck gets emotionally connected with Jim, who becomes Huck's close friend and guardian. After heavy flooding on the river, the two find a raft as well as an entire house floating on the river. Entering the house to seek loot, Jim finds a dead body of a man lying on the floor, shot in the back. He prevents Huck from viewing the