Summary

Chapter 1-16  Carolyn Lo Coco

The novel begins with Huckleberry Finn, the narrator, speaking in regards to “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” to display how “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” takes place after Tom and Huck inherit a lot of money. Huckleberry Finn now lives with the Widow Douglas because his father is a drunk, however he hates living there so he runs away. But shortly after returns because Tom Sawyer will allow him to join their game. Jim, the Widow Douglas’s slave, is woken up by Tom and Huck, and they trick Jim by putting his hat on a tree, leading Jim to think a spell has been put on him. Tom and Huck later meet their friends at a cave to form a robbers group. The Widow and Miss Watson attempt to teach Huck Finn about religion, but it doesn’t work. A rumor starts that Huck’s dad is dead, but he know’s that isn’t true. Huck and Tom’s group of robbers dissembles, and Huck begins to realize that most of the stories Tom tells are fake and lies. Huck also begins to realize that his dad’s footprint from his boot is outside the house, so he sells all his money to the judge for a dollar. Huck got back to the house to see his dad in his room, who gets mad at him for being literate. Then Huck’s dad goes to the judge and demands for Huck;s money. The widow wants to adopt Huck, but the new judge doesn’t want to separate father and son. Pap lives with the new judge in the town to attempt to be reformed, however after this he because a drunk again. Huck’s dad kidnaps Huck and they move into a shed near the river. Huck keeps trying to escape and his Pap chases him with a knife then passes out, and that night Huck holds a gun to his father head while he sleeps. When huck goes the next morning to find fish, he actually finds a canoe which he hides. Huck fakes his own death using pig blood and then travels to Jackson’s Island. The next day there is a ferry searching for Huck’s body. Huck later finds Jim who believes Huck is a ghost, but Huck later finds out Jim is a runaway slave. A storm comes and Jim and huck stay in a cave until it’s over. They board a floating houseboat and Jim finds a dead body. Huck wants to see the dead body but Im continues to change the subject and not let him see it. As a joke, Huck puts a dead snake by Jim’s bed, and another snake bites JIm. Huck dresses as a girl and goes too shore to tell people. Huck learns that Pap is a victim for the murder of Huck, and a 200$ reward is for finding Pap. Huck returns to the island to tell Jim that a lady from shore is out to get Jim and she is keeping Huck’s secret that he is a boy. Huck and Jim trade down the Mississippi River and they board another ship. Huck and Jim overhear two robbers, and they steal there getaway ship. They go through the left over items on the robber’s ship, and they start telling stories about King and Queens. Huck decides he is going to turn Jim in for the better, but then Jim tells Huck that he is his only friend, causing Huck to change his mind. Huck fends off two men searching for Jim by saying he has small pox. Their canoe is stollen, and Huck finds himself on land surrounded by dogs.

Chapter 17-21 Margo Irie

Huck Finn finds himself in a home, in which he tells the hosts his name is “‘George Jackson, sir. I’m only a boy’”(107). After some talk about calling off the dogs and inviting Huck in, Huck meets a boy in close age proximity to himself named Buck. After telling lie after lie on his orphanage, Huck Finn decides he enjoys the company of the hosts, the Grangerfords, and that he was comfortable in this home. After some time in this home, Huck witnesses Buck attempt to shoot one of the Shepherdsons, a neighboring family in which they had a feud with. After being in the middle of a gunfight between these two families, Huck decides to retreat the the raft in which he embarks on yet another journey with Jim. On this adventure, Jim and Huck come upon two “liars”(141) who claimed to be royalty. The young boys went along with this scheme for some time calling them “‘Your Majesty’”(140), but eventually learn they are “humbugs and frauds”(141). Along the journey, these four encounter a town, in which the so called royalty con people out of their money claiming to be going on a missionary. In the following town, in Arkansas, Huck watches a drunken man being killed right in front of his daughter.

Chapter 22-28 Carmen Mascarenhas

Summary (pgs. 162-218)

So all the lynchers form a mob and are like, “let’s go to Sherburn’s house and show him who’s boss”, but as it turns out, Sherburn is the boss and he let’s them know real quick with a speech about how they all have no backbone which is kind of brave given he’s one guy and they’re like, more than one guy. Anyway, turns out he’s right and they all leave his house and then BAM! Now we’re at the circus! There’s this drunk guy who’s trying to get in on all the circus action and the ringmaster is like NO but the drunk guy is like YES. The man jumps off a horse and everyone realizes it’s all a trick and he’s part of the circus. Later, our fav con duo the duke and king are doing Shakespeare and no one gets it, so back to the drawing board! They come back with some stupid show where the king somehow ends up naked which makes the crowd so angry that they want to lynch him (what is with the crowd and lynching Jesus Christ). But before the crowd can lynch to their heart’s content, the duke and king run away with the money! Back on the raft there’s a cute lil moment where Jim is clearly being such a protector of Huck but then he’s homesick and freaking out and plot twist Jim has a daughter (I thought he was like 18 lol oops). Lest we forget Jim is an illegal runaway, the white folk dress him up like a “sick A-rab” to keep all the captors away and end up in a town where some really rich guy has died and the story is apparently his two brothers were supposed to show up to collect their dues. Turns out they haven’t, and no one knows who they are so D and K are like this sounds like a prime scheming situation! So they decide to dress up as the dead guy’s brothers, and now we’ve got a deaf mute and a British guy. They go to the guy’s funeral and con the nieces and it’s all kind of gross and unethical but everyone buys it somehow. They find out what their inheritance is, and they’re all psyched until the actually go to count it and realize that the money is a couple of hundred dollars short. So to make this plan even more convoluted, they replace the missing money from the money they conned through their naked show disaster and then give it all to the dead guy’s daughters to seem extra generous and they go ahead and do that but there’s this one guy who isn’t having it and tells the king he’s “the worst imitation” of a British person ever and the entire town is like ugh what a skeptical butt and to prove that she trusts the (CON AS HECK) men, the daughter gives all the money to the duke and king without a receipt (really, Mary Jane? really?). Flash forward and Huck’s conscience that shows up once in a blue moon reappears and he’s like shoot, guess we can’t rob these nice people after all. So Huck decides to steal it from D and K and hide it and then tell Mary Jane everything, and in the most convenient plot of all time, he overhears where the duke and king are keeping the money while hiding in a closet. So Huck steals the gold and then decides to hide it in the most obvious place- the dead guy’s coffin. The funeral happens and the duke and king are trying to split as fast as possible but then they realize all of their money is gone and Huck blames it on slaves that are long gone since D and K sold them. Mary Jane is sad and pretty and Huck feels guilty and tells her everything and comes up with a whole intricate deal in which the duke and king get majorly duped and the sisters escape with the money and everything is set until the absolute most predictable thing happens: the real brothers show up.

Chapter 29-35 Kristen Allan

Chapter 36-the last Natalie Fung

Mischief Managed

Here’s a short recap of what happened before: The Duke and the King sell Jim to a farmer named Phelps, claiming he is a runaway slave and a reward would come if he was turned in. Huck goes to the Phelps house to look for Jim, soon realizing that the Phelps family is Tom Sawyer’s aunt and uncle then Huck pretends to be Tom Sawyer. Soon after this the real Tom Sawyer come for a visit but goes along with Huck’s plan and pretends to be his younger brother, Sid. Now since we are all caught up this section of the reading starts with the boys finding Jim, wanting to set him free. Yet classic Tom Sawyer wants an adventure out of Jim’s escape plan telling Huck this needs to be interesting like the breakouts that he has read about in books. With the escape comes danger, the farmers shoot at them with a bullet landing on Tom’s leg, which sets the escape on pause. Huck looks for a doctor to help Tom, who then turns in Jim and Tom. Then Aunt Sally arrives revealing the true identity of both Tom and Huck, as well as the information that Jim was a freed man all along. Miss Watson had died and set Jim free in her will. Remember the dead man on the floating house? That was important because it was Huck’s father meaning that Huck is an orphan (again). Aunt Sally wants to adopt Huck Finn with the intention of civilizing him, but Huck is not going down that road again. Then he decides to travel westward. THE END.