INTRODUCTION

• Samuel Langhorne Clemens, also known as Mark

Twain, was a major American writer from Missouri.
• His stories and novels are famous for their humor,
vivid details, and memorable characters.
• His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both
classics in American literature.
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
BACKGROUND
➢ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is like many of Twain’s
other writings, it’s a comedy, but it also has some serious
issues in it, like slavery.
➢ Twain paints a picture of what life was like in the 19th century.
➢ This adventurous story also is cool because the characters
talk like regular people, they use slang.
➢ This book is an American classic, and a sequel to The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
 MAIN CHARACTERS

• Huckleberry Finn: He is the main dude of the story. An all around good kid, he has a self-
esteem problem. His dad is a big drunk who beats him. Huck’s age is somewhere between 12-15.
• Tom Sawyer: Huck's good friend. Tom gets into all sorts of trouble. He is a witty kid who can
lie.
• Slave Jim: Jim is a black dude who is a slave. Jim was "owned" by Widow Watson. In the
beginning he is an outlaw slave running away. He and Huck become really close.
• King and Duke: They are two con-artists. They tell Huck they are nobility. Huck calls them the
king and the duke. They are fast talkers but get busted in the end.
 PLOT
The book starts out with Huck telling the reader that this is a sequel to Tom Sawyer. After his dad deserted him, Huck
lives with some lady named Widow Douglas. He describes the widow’s sister and his two friends, Tom Sawyer and Slave Jim.
Then Huck’s dad comes back and takes Huck. After a while, Huck’s dad starts beating Huck, so Huck runs away. He fools
everyone into thinking he has been killed. He goes to some island where slave Jim to where Jim had also escaped.

Huck and Jim get a raft and sail down the Mississippi River. Then their raft gets hit by a boat and breaks. While Jim fixes it,
Huck hangs out with some family. Then the raft is repaired and they sail on. They are joined by two crooks who tell Huck they
are French royalty. Huck doesn’t believe them, but plays along. Then the two guys, King and the Duke, go from town to town
and swindle people out of cash. Huck doesn’t like traveling with two con men, so he thinks up a plan to sail away and have the
two guys arrested.The plan doesn’t work.Then the two jerks run out of cash so they sell slave Jim to a farmer.

The farmer that buys Jim is Tom Sawyer’s uncle. Then Huck and Tom meet up. They decide to set Jim free. They devise a
plan but the plan does not work and on top of that, Tom gets shot in the leg. Then they all find out that Jim has actually been a
free black man all along. So everyone goes home. Huck decides that he is going to go live in the Indian territory.