Huckleberry Finn Chapter 1 Summary

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is about a young boy named Huckleberry Finn, usually called Huck. He was the son of the town’s drunk and had no mother. His father couldn’t take care of Huck because he was always drunk. A widow in the town adopted Huck and let him live in her house. The widow’s sister tried to sophisticate Huck by giving lessons to Huck because she felt sorry for him, but he did not follow them. He wanted to be himself, playing outside and hunting his food. Huck went to school, and he liked it because he could learn something, but one day, his father stole him from the widow. He lived off of hunting and fishing with his father. One day, his father drank so much liquor, he started hallucinating. He started screaming that snakes were crawling all over him. …show more content…
He ran away because he heard that the widow’s sister say that she was going to sell him away from his family. Even though the society at that time said that whites were superior to blacks, Huck and Jim were equals and they helped each other. He went against the flow helping Jim where everybody in America told whites not too. Jim and Huck found an abandoned boat which they found thieves hiding in. They barely escaped, but they had to steal the bandit’s canoe. They were separated by the fog, and they got lost. They eventually get back together, and they kept going down the Mississippi River. Huck and Jims plan was to go to a fork where the Mississippi met the Ohio and bought a ticket on a ferry to bring Jim north on the Ohio River. But, they found out that they had missed the fork when they were separated by the fog and was going down the Mississippi river. Jim and Huck were captured, but they were at Tom Sawyer’s aunt’s sisters’ house. Huck acted like he was Sidney, Tom’s brother. Aunt Polly’s sister heard that the widow had died and that she wanted to set Jim free. After that, Jim became