While Huck gets help, Jim remains with Tom. As they carry out their plan, Tom is shot in the leg. Jim is held in a shed and Tom has a risky escape plan. When the real Tom arrives, he plays along. He decides to free him and pretends to be the Phelps’ nephew Tom Sawyer. Huck finds out that Jim is now owned by the Phelps. Once, they pretend to be a dead man’s brothers and escape after their true identities are revealed. Later, they rescue two con men who join the boys on their journey. When a conflict breaks out, all Grangerford males are killed. The Grangerfords are in a 30-year feud against the Shepherdsons, another rich family along the Mississippi. He befriends with Buck Grangerford who is about his age. Huck returns to the island and together with Jim he flees downriver.Īfter some time on the river, they are separated by a passing steaming boat and Huck meets the Grangerfords, a rich family. Moreover, she is suspicious about Huck’s true sex and reveals that he is a boy. A woman tells that Jim is considered to be Huck’s murderer. Huck dresses as a girl and returns to town because he wants to hear what’s going on in town. Inside, there is a dead man shot in the back and Jim prevents Huck from seeing the dead man’s face. After a storm, a house is floating down the river and they enter it and grab what they can. When they find a raft, they decide to go to a free state. There he meets Miss Watson’s black slave Jim who ran away. Huck is kept locked but fakes his own death and hides on Jackson’s Island, a small island on the river. When a new judge arrives, Pap gains custody of his son and moves to a cabin on the other side of the river. One day, Huck’s father Pap, a violent drunkard, appears in St. It is a sequel to his earlier book, Tom Sawyer.Īfter The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck was adopted by the widow Douglas who wants to “civilize” him and so he joined Tom’s band of robbers. An illustration of the 1st edition.Īdventures of Huckleberry Finn is a book written by Mark Twain, published in 1884.
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