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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain I. Discover Moses and the Bulrushers (pg 1) Huckleberry Finn is kept by a widow who provides for his schooling and life necessities but he hates being mannered and wants to runaway all the time. The widow’s sister – “a tolerable slim old maid” – teachers him the Bible and Huck soon finds it pointless to learn about “dead people” but would only stand all these miseries because he wants to join Tom Sawyer’s gang in the robbing business (2). II. Our Gang’s Dark Oath (pg 4) Tom Sawyer calls Huckleberry Finn out and they are almost caught by the slave Jim, who is famous “because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches” (6). Soon, Tom and Huck escapes and goes onto…show more content…
I fool Pap and Get Away (pg 30) Huck finds a canoe when he is suppose to be out checking the end of the fish-lines for dinner, so he devises a plan to escape to Jackson’s Island with others thinking that he is murdered. VIII. I Spare Miss Watson’s Jim (pg 36) After Huck’s escape, people who knew Huck set out to search for Huck’s corpse but are unsuccessful. Huck manages to live on the island but felt lovely and scared all the time so he decides he needs a friend thus accidentally finds the runaway slave Jim at the Illinois shore. IX. The House of Death Floats By (pg 47) Young birds “flying a yard or two at a time and lighting” is a sign of rain later on, according to Jim’s conversation with Huck (45). The three or four foot deep flood sends houses afloat so Huck and Jim dig through them for supplies and one night, they found a dead man in the house and takes everything worthy from the house, paying no attention to the corpse. X. What Comes of Handling Snake-skin (pg 52) Jim told Huck that touching snake skin causes bad luck and Huck decides to trick Jim with a dead rattlesnake but ends up causing Jim a snake bite that takes “four days and nights” to heal. As the story goes on, Jim has repeatedly proved himself to be correct in Huck’s eyes, even thought Huck refuses to acknowledge it. XI. They’re After Us! (pg 52) Huck disguises himself as a girl to “slip over the river and find out what was going on” and he went to a lady who immediately found out that Huck was a boy…show more content…
Overreaching Don’t Pay (pg 186) Huck cannot stand the frauds anymore when he sees Mary-Jane crying over the slaves sold and have their families separated, so he tells Mary-Jane the truth about the frauds and devises a plan to jail the king and his duke, which Huck feels proud of because even “Tom Sawyer couldn’t ’a’ done it no neater himself” (195). XXIX. I Light Out in the Storm (pg195) The day Mary-Jane went to town was the same day that the real Harvey and William return. The townspeople along with Dr. Robinson and lawyer Levi Bell inspects the frauds and almost immediately reveals their fraud identities. XXX. The Gold Saves the Thieves (pg 205) The King says that there is a blue cross on the dead man’s chest whereas Harvey Wilks says that there are the words “P-B-W” so everyone goes along and brings the coffin up to inspect the corpse and finds the gold that Huck has hidden (202). That spares the King and Duke’s lives as well as Huck’s own and nobody guess that Huck is ever suspicious yet. XXXI. You Can’t Pray a Lie (pg 209) The King and Duke become desperate after fruitless attempts to earn a living so they sold Jim for forty dollars. The Duke then tells Huck that Jim is at a house “forty miles back here in the country, on the road to Lafayette,” but Huck knows well that Jim is at Silas Phelps’s estate. XXXII. I Have a New Name (Pg 218) Huck devises a plan to sneak into the Phelps’s estate, where he finds out that Phelps was Tom Sawyer’s uncle and is able to
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