Huckleberry Finn is the son of St. Petersburg, Missouri’s town drunk. He takes care of himself for a period of time until he and his friend Tom Sawyer discover a large sum of money. The Widow Douglas, who lived with her sister Mrs. Watson, then took in Huck and tried to civilize him. This is how Mark Twain’s, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huckleberry Finn is the son of St. Petersburg, Missouri’s town drunk. He takes care of himself for a period of time until he and his friend Tom Sawyer discover a large sum of money.
The Widow Douglas, who lived with her sister Mrs. Watson, then took in Huck and tried to civilize him. This is how Mark Twain’s, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins. One night, Huck finds his drunken father sitting on his bed; he is startled and does not know why he is there. He figures out that his father is there just to get some of Huck’s discovered money. Huck is more educated than his father is. Huck is told that he should not be going to school anymore so as not to embarrass his father. Huck was threatened about going to school but he disobeyed his father and went anyway.
The kindly judge that invests money for Huck, Judge Thatcher, was the one that kept the money for Huck and will do anything he can to keep it from his father. This made Huck’s father very angry and caused him to kidnap Huck from the Widow’s house, taking him deep into the forest to a deserted cabin. At first Huck liked the idea of freedom from the civilized world; he could do whatever he wished. Many times his father would go into town, come back drunk and beat him. Huck couldn’t take much more abuse, but there was no way of escaping the little cabin.
One day, while his father was in town, Huck found a way to escape. He made a hole going through the floor and crawled out. He stages his own murder for a successful and dramatic getaway. A canoe, which Huck discovered a few days earlier, helps him to escape to the deep forest. The next day, Huck knows that his plan was a success when he sees a ferryboat filled with important people from the town searching for his body. After three days and nights Huck begins to get lonesome. On the third day he discovers remains of a campfire. Huck is frightened and paddles over to the Illinois shore.
He fears that some travelers will discover the island he is staying on. So he returns and keeps watch over the place. Soon, he sees Mrs. Watson’s slave, Jim, Huck is awfully glad to see him. Jim, thinking Huck is dead, is frightened at first sight. Huck tells him that he is not dead and they tell each other about their adventures. Jim confesses to Huck that he has run away because Mrs. Watson was going to sell him. During the next few days, Jim and Huck find for themselves a cavern, at the top of the hill, on Jackson’s Island.
One night, they see a two-story frame house float by. They climb aboard to see if they can find anything useful inside. They discover a dead man that has been shot in the back. They load their boat with some worthwhile stuff from the cabin and head back to Jackson Island. During breakfast Huck wants to discuss the dead man but Jim refuses to do so. He says that it might bring them bad luck. Trying to reach Cairo they travel down the river from island to island. Although, they never find Cairo, they discover that Mrs. Watson has died, leaving Jim as a free slave.
Jim and Huck have many adventures along the way together, and as a result, they encounter many different types of people with whom their story continues. Throughout all the adventures that Huck experienced, he always manages to come out on top. While reading this book it can be assumed that one of the themes is exploring self-reliance and self-growth. Through these adventures he learned about his inner strengths and weaknesses. One night, Huck finds his drunken father sitting on his bed; he is startled and does not know why he is there.
He figures out that his father is there just to get some of Huck’s discovered money. Huck is more educated than his father is. Huck is told that he should not be going to school anymore so as not to embarrass his father. Huck was threatened about going to school but he disobeyed his father and went anyway. The kindly judge that invests money for Huck, Judge Thatcher, was the one that kept the money for Huck and will do anything he can to keep it from his father. This made Huck’s father very angry and caused him to kidnap Huck from the Widow’s house, taking him deep into the forest to a deserted cabin.
At first Huck liked the idea of freedom from the civilized world; he could do whatever he wished. Many times his father would go into town, come back drunk and beat him. Huck couldn’t take much more abuse, but there was no way of escaping the little cabin. One day, while his father was in town, Huck found a way to escape. He made a hole going through the floor and crawled out. He stages his own murder for a successful and dramatic getaway. A canoe, which Huck discovered a few days earlier, helps him to escape to the deep forest. The next day, Huck knows that his plan was a uccess when he sees a ferryboat filled with important people from the town searching for his body. After three days and nights Huck begins to get lonesome. On the third day he discovers remains of a campfire. Huck is frightened and paddles over to the Illinois shore. He fears that some travelers will discover the island he is staying on. So he returns and keeps watch over the place. Soon, he sees Mrs. Watson’s slave, Jim, Huck is awfully glad to see him. Jim, thinking Huck is dead, is frightened at first sight. Huck tells him that he is not dead and they tell each other about their adventures.
Jim confesses to Huck that he has run away because Mrs. Watson was going to sell him. During the next few days, Jim and Huck find for themselves a cavern, at the top of the hill, on Jackson’s Island. One night, they see a two-story frame house float by. They climb aboard to see if they can find anything useful inside. They discover a dead man that has been shot in the back. They load their boat with some worthwhile stuff from the cabin and head back to Jackson Island. During breakfast Huck wants to discuss the dead man but Jim refuses to do so. He says that it might bring them bad luck.
Trying to reach Cairo they travel down the river from island to island. Although, they never find Cairo, they discover that Mrs. Watson has died, leaving Jim as a free slave. Jim and Huck have many adventures along the way together, and as a result, they encounter many different types of people with whom their story continues. Throughout all the adventures that Huck experienced, he always manages to come out on top. While reading this book it can be assumed that one of the themes is exploring self-reliance and self-growth. Through these adventures he learned about his inner strengths and weaknesses.
