The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes place in the town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. Huck was trying to become accustomed to his new life of going to church and school as well as being clean and polite. Huck hated his new life but wanted to be part of the “robbers’ gang” that his friend Tom had started. Tom told Huck that in order to be in this gang he had to remain respectable. Suddenly Huck’s alcoholic father comes into town demanding that Huck gives him money. The town Judge and the Widow try to get custody of Huck, but the new town judge believes that Huck’s biological father deserves to have custody. The new judge even takes the alcoholic into his home to try to help him start over, but he remains in his drunken ways. He harasses
