Huck Finn Synopsis

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which is still in St.Petersburg, Missouri. This movie picks up where The Adventures of Tom Sawyer left off. Huck Finn is a poor boy with a drunk as a father and his friend Tom Sawyer, still have the robber's gold. Due to is adventure, Huck came into quite a sum of money, which the bank held for him.Huck was then adopted by the Widow Douglas, a kind elderly woman.

Huck is not excited with his new civil life that includes,church,manners, and school. He only stays at Tom's request, and because Tom says he can't join his robbers game unless he stays civil.Things progress nicely, until Huck's drunken father,Pap, appears in town to claim Huck's money.The widow
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Huck's plan is to expose

the duke and the dauphin when Wilks real brothers arrive

from England. The townspeople become furious at both sets of Wilks claimants, and the

duke and the dauphin barely escape in the confusion.Thankfully for the sisters, the gold is found.Huck and Jim try to leave the duke and dauphin,but they make it back to the raft just as Huck and Jim are pushing off.

The duke and dauphin run a few more small scams, then they commit their worst crime,they sell Jim to a local farmer, telling him Jim is a runaway. Huck finds out where Jim is being held and decides to free him. At the house where Jim is a prisoner, a woman greets Huck and calls him Tom. Huck quickly discovers, the people holding Jim

are none other than Tom Sawyers aunt and uncle, Silas and Sally Phelps. The

Phelpses mistake Huck for Tom, who is supposed to be arriving soon for a visit, and Huck goes with their mistake. He manages to intercept Tom between the Phelps house and the dock, and then has Tom pretend to be his own younger brother, Sid.

Tom devises a wild plan to free Jim, while Huck is sure Tom's plan
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Huck is then forced to find a doctor, and Jim sacrifices his freedom to nurse Tom back to health. All return to the Phelps house, where Jim ends back in chains.

After Tom wakes the next morning, he reveals that Jim has been a free

man all along, because Miss Watson, who made a statement in her will to free Jim,

died two months earlier. Tom planned the entire escape idea all as a game

and intended to pay Jim for his troubles. Aunt Polly then shows up,

identifying Tom and Sid as Huck and Tom. Jim tells Huck that the body they found on

the floating house off Jackson's Island had been Huck's father. Aunt Sally offers to adopt Huck, but Huck, has had enough civility, announces his plan to conquer the West. Hollywood did do a good job in portraying the time period, I think mostly due to the same directors having worked on the Tom Sawyer movie.The actors and directors kept the movie parallel to the book, which doesn’t happen as often today, most directors like to add things to spice up the

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