Huckleberry Finn Chapter Summary

This is about a boy and a slave in the bastion of racial tolerance known as pre civil war Missouri. It all started in the town of St. Petersburg, Missouri where Huckleberry Finn is in the custody of Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas, who was attempting to turn him into an upstanding Christian with good grooming habits. That is, until his drunk and abusive father, Pap, returns for the six hundred dollars Huckleberry had given to Judge Thatcher. It did not go quite so well, so Pap takes Huckleberry and keeps him locked up in a shed. Huck takes action to this, by faking his own death with animal blood. He then escapes to Jackson’s Island on the Mississippi River where he encounters Miss Watson’s runaway slave, Jim. Jim fled because his family of …show more content…
Jim runs inside the floating house to see a dead man inside with animal blood all over and won't let Huck inside. They take girls clothes from the house for Huck to use. Huck chooses to go back to shore dressed as a girl to gather information. He discovers there's a search for Jim and a three hundred dollar reward, because they believe Jim killed Huck. Huck immediately returns to the island and they begin their journey on a raft down the Mississippi River. Down the Mississippi River, Jim and Huck run into fog and have a wreck with a steamboat. Huck is then separated from Jim and rescued by a rich, southern family, the Grangerfords. The Grangerfords are locked in a blood feud with rival, rich family the Shepherdsons. Huck escapes and reunites with Jim on the raft. They encounter two con-artists who claim royal decent, the duke and the dauphin. The duke and dauphin impersonate the brothers of a rich, dead guy and sell all of his property. Huck falls for the dead guy’s daughter, Mary Jane Wilks. The duke and dauphin sell Jim to a plantation for reward money. Huckleberry is infuriated and sets off to rescue his