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HUCKLEBERRY FINN

After Huck and Tom discovered Huck was adopted by the Widow
hidden money and received twelve Douglas, a kind woman, who lives
Huck made a novel in which he told what he with her sister. Huck is not very
thousand dollars in gold in
excited about his new life of
had experienced in the adventures of Tom return, Judge Thatcher invested cleanliness, manners, church and
Swyer. the money for them. school.

Soon after, Huck discovers footprints in the


snow and recognizes them as those of his Huck is caught by his father after
A new judge in town refuses to
violent and abusive father. Huck realizes leaving Judge Thatcher, who
separate Huck from his father. He
that his father, whom he hasn't seen in a forces him to hand over the
takes Huck away from the widow's
long time, has come back to claim the money dollar, and threatens to beat him
house and takes him to a log cabin.
he found. up if he ever goes to school again.
Huck fue inteligente y cuando su padre After hearing the widow's plan to
se fe a la ciudad, Huck aprovecha y Sale sell him to a slave trader, Jim
de la cabaña, mata a un cerdo, extiende ran away. Jim, like the rest of the
la sangre como si fuera la suya, toma townspeople, thinks that Huck
una canoa y se deja llevar río abajo was dead and freaks out when he While Huck and Jim live on the
hasta la Isla de Jackson. sees him. island, the river rises significantly.

they observe a log raft and a floating They climbed aboard to see who
house. they could save.

they find a dead man in a corner of


the house. Jim goes to inspect the
body and realizes that it is Pap,
Huck's father. Jim keeps this
information secret.
A few nights later, a steamboat runs
over the raft, forcing Huck and Jim
to jump overboard. They part again
as they swim for their lives.

Huck returns to town disguised as a The woman tells him that she thinks
girl to pick up some news. While Jim is hiding out on Jackson Island.
talking to a woman, she learns that Hearing his suspicions, Huck returns
both Jim and Pap are suspects in for Jim and together they flee the
her murder. island to avoid detection.

Huck finds the shore and is


immediately surrounded by dogs.
After managing to escape, he is
invited to live with a family called
the Grangerfords.

In one day all the men in the


At the Grangerford house Huck is Grangerford family are killed,
treated well and he discovers that including Huck's new best friend,
Jim is hiding in a nearby swamp. Buck.
Further away, Huck rescues two
well-known fraudsters the Duke The Duke and the King develop a
and the King. The two men take scam that makes them more than
control of the raft and begin four hundred dollars. The scam
Amidst the chaos, Huck runs to traveling downstream and making involves getting all the men in town
Jim, and together they start money by cheating people in various to go to a show under the promise
sailing down the river again. towns along the river. of great entertainment.

In the show, the King parades naked


On the third night, they all return
for a few minutes. The men are too they tell everyone that the show
plotting revenge, but the Duke and
ashamed to admit that they wasted was phenomenal, so the next night's
King manage to escape with all the
their money this way. show is a success.
profits made.
He hides the gold in the coffin of
Peter Wilks (the girls' father).

Further down the river, the two


swindlers learn of a large The girls treat Huck so kindly that he
inheritance destined for three promises to protect them from the
recently orphaned girls. To steal con men's plan. Huck sneaks into the
the money, the men pretend to be the King's room and steals the heirloom's
girls' British uncles. large bag of gold.

Huck runs into Mary Jane Wilks, the Finally, one of the royal uncles says
oldest of the girls, and sees that the city attorney assembles the four that his brother Peter had a tattoo
she is crying. Then he confesses the men to determine who is lying. The on his chest and challenges the King
whole story to her. She is furious, King and the Duke play their roles to identify it. To determine the truth,
but agrees to leave the house for a so well that there is no way to the citizens decide to exhume the
few days so Huck can escape. determine the truth. body.
Digging up the coffin, the
townspeople discover the missing
money that Huck hid in the coffin.

Huck runs straight to the raft and


he and Jim jump into the river. The Huck boldly decides to go save his
Duke and King also escape and friend Jim because Ducke and King
manage to join the others on the have sold him into slavery for being
raft. a fugitive from New Orleans.

After much planning, the boys


convince the town that a group of but Tom is shot in the leg. Huck
thieves is planning to steal Jim. That The local farmers follow them, returns to town to find a doctor,
night, they pick up Jim and begin to shooting as they run after them. whom he sends to Tom and Jim's
run away. Huck, Jim and Tom manage to escape hideout.
The doctor returns with Tom on a At this point, Aunt Polly appears,
stretcher and Jim in chains. Jim is having come all the way down the
mistreated until the doctor river. She realized something was Huck and Tom give Jim forty dollars
describes helping him take care of seriously wrong after her sister for being such a good prisoner and
the boy. When Tom wakes up he wrote that both Tom and Sid had letting them free him, when in fact
demands that Jim be set free. arrived. he was free a while ago

Jim reveals to him that the dead man


on the houseboat was, in fact, Huck's
father.

Huck concludes the novel by


Aunt Sally offers to adopt Huck, but declaring he would never have
he refuses, on the grounds that he's undertaken the task of writing his
tried that lifestyle before and it story in a book if he had known it
wouldn't suit him. would take so long to complete.

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