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ADVENTURE OF
HUCKLEBERRY FINN
THE NOVEL TELLS THE STORY OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN’S
ESCAPE FROM HIS ALCOHOLIC AND ABUSIVE FATHER AND
HUCK’S ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY DOWN THE MISSISIPI
RIVER TOGETHER WITH THE RUNAWAY SLAVE JIM.

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 Adventures
of
Huckleberry Finn
 Background
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Slavery in America

• In 1620, English private citizens brought the first slaves to Virginia.

• Due to the high demand of slave labor, legislation changed – no surprise in this time of political liberalism.

• Technological progress further divided the North and the South.

• Abraham Lincoln, an abolitionist, was elected president in 1860.

• The war ended with the capitulation of the Confederacy in April 1865 and a death toll of more than 620,000 military
men
Author
The author known as Mark Twain was born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens on
November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri.

• Clemens’s father died in 1847

• In 1851, he got a job with the Hannibal Journal.

• From 1857 to 1860, he worked as boat pilot on the Mississippi River.

• “mark twain” * In 1861, he briefly served as a volunteer in the Civil War on the
side of the Confederacy.

• In 1870, Clemens married Olivia Langdon.

Author

• Following the publication of The Adventures of Tom

Sawyer in 1876, Mark Twain started on its sequel, with
Huckleberry Finn as the main character.
• Clemens set up a publishing business, but its eventual
collapse left him financially ruined.
• Olivia died in 1904, followed six years later by Samuel
on April 21, 1910.
 Setting
•
It takes place in the real town of St. Petersburg,
Missouri.

• Early-mid 1800's
Characters
 Huckleberry Finn Jim

An unschooled but honourable runaway slave.

Huck is the thirteen-year-old son of the local
drunk of St. Petersburg, Missouri, a town on the
Mississippi River.
 Tom Sawyer

Tom’s stubborn reliance on the “authorities” of romance

novels leads him to acts of incredible stupidity and startling
cruelty.
 Pap Finn

Huck’s father, the town

drunk and ne’er-do-wel.
 The duke and the dauphin

A pair of con men whom Huck and

Jim rescue as they are being run out
of a river town.
 Widow Douglas and Miss Watson

Two wealthy sisters who live together in a large

house in St. Petersburg and who adopt Huck.
 Judge Thatcher

The local judge who shares responsibility for Huck with the
Widow Douglas and is in charge of safeguarding the money
that Huck and Tom found at the end of Tom Sawyer.
 The Grangerfords

A family that takes Huck in after a steamboat

hits his raft, separating him from Jim.
 The Wilks family

At one point during their travels, the duke and

the dauphin encounter a man who tells them of
the death of a local named Peter Wilks, who has
left behind a rich estate.
 The Silas and Sally Phelps Aunt Polly

Tom Sawyer’s aunt and

Tom Sawyer’s aunt guardian and Sally Phelps’s
and uncle. sister.
Plot
• Rising Action

• Pap reappears in town, demands Huck's money, and kidnaps Huck. Miss Watson and the
Widow Douglas try to civilize Huck before Pap reappears in town, demands Huck's money, and
kidnaps Huck. Huck eludes civilization by pretending to die and fleeing to Jackson's Island,
where he encounters Jim and embarks on a river journey with him.

• Climax

Huck still has to save Jim, who has been sold to the Phelps family, after they
eventually get rid of the king and the duke. Tom has had his escape adventure,
Jim is free, and Huck learns that his mean old Pap is no longer alive.
• Falling Action

• When Aunt Polly appears at the Phelps farm and recognizes Tom and Huck, Tom
reveals that Miss Watson died two months ago and left Jim free in her will.
Following that, Tom recovers from his wound, while Huck decides he's had enough of
civilized civilization and sets out for the West.

• Resolution

• The truth about Tom Sawyer is revealed to Huck. Mrs. Watson released Jim in
her will, so Tom has known all along that Jim has been set free. Jim is now free, but
he seems to get much more compassion even Tom Sawyer during this stage.
Theme
• Freedom

Sharply contrasted with the existing civilization along the great river.
This conflict between freedom and orderly civilization forms the
overarching theme of the novel. Huckleberry Finn presents freedom in
exploring questions about the meaning of liberty and at what price, if
any, a person is truly free.
Mood
• It serves to match the genre the novel
adheres to, that of the "adventure".
features episodic narratives, placing the
protagonist or other characters in peril,
posing problems to be solved and solving
them through valor, wit, or luck.
 Tone
T Tone
e
• Moralistic, most clearly on the theme of
slavery
Summary
•The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells the story of a boy named Huckleberry
“Huck”Finn. And Jim who is black. They both run away from the town, for different
reasons. Huck was tired of have to go to school and having to use manners all the time and
wanted to be “free”. Jim overhear his owner talking to another man about selling him to
New Orleans, and ran away.
• They meet many different people, including two people also on the run , one who pretend
to be a duke and the other pretending to be a king. However, they are frauds and are just
tricking people to earn money.
• Huck meets Tom Sawyer, one of his friends from town, while treying to free Jim. In the
end. Tom becomes a watchman and Huck goes back to town and Jim becomes a free black.
 Activity
Create a Mind Mapping about the story of “Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn” and explain your work at least 5-10 sentences.

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