
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.
