Huckleberry Finn Chapter 1 Analysis

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Chapter Summaries In the beginning of chapter 10, Huck wants to find out more about the dead man. However, Jim is reluctant to talk about it, fearing that it will bring bad luck. Huck also finds eight dollars in a linen coat he reckons the people in the house stole. After this, Huck recounts the story of when he touched the snake skin a few days earlier. He recalls when he went to the tobacco store and found a rattlesnake. Huck killed it and put it in Jim’s blanket that night. Unfortunately, the snake’s mate came and bit Jim. Jim told Huck to skin the snake and roast a piece of the skin. Jim said if he ate it, it would help heal him. Also, Jim decides to drink himself drunk to ease the pain. He is drunk for a while, but the swelling…show more content…
Huck introduces himself as “Sarah Williams.” The lady looked at Huck suspiciously. The lady tells Huck that Pap supposedly disappeared and that some people believe that he killed Huck for his money. She tells him that there is a $200 reward out for Pap’s finding. However, she tells Huck that some believe that Jim was the one who killed Huck, considering that Jim ran away the same night that Huck was killed. She said that there was also a $300 reward out to find him. The ladies suspicion increases and when she asks for Huck’s name again, he says “Mary Williams,” instead of “Sarah Williams.” Huck makes up a story saying his full name is “Sarah Mary Williams.” The lady then sees a rat and asks Huck to kill it with a lump of lead. When he throws the lead, she becomes even more suspicious of how he throws. She finally realizes that he is a boy and asks him for his real name. Huck says it is George Peters and he is an apprentice to a mean farmer. She quizzes him about different farming things to see if he is lying. Huck passes the quiz. She then says her name is Judith Loftus, and tells Huck to send for her if he needs her. Huck then goes back to the island and lights a decoy campfire. Then he wakes Jim, and loads up the raft and they leave the
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