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Huckleberry Finn Summaries
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins with Huckleberry Finn, the narrator of the story, depicting his new life to the reader. Huck Finn runs away form the Widow Douglas who tries desperately to civilize him. The widow hopes to properly educate Huck and teach him about religion. Miss Watson, the widow’s sister teaches Huck about Heaven and explains to him that if he does not behave well, he will have to go to Hell. Huck, being the young and naïve boy he is, decides that he would rather go to Hell than be stuck at home learning boring lessons out of the Bible. On his way to meet Tom Sawyer, Huck’s sense of superstition kicks in when he accidentally kills a spider and worries that he will suffer bad luck. On their way to the secret hideout, Tom and Huck pass Jim, Miss Watson’s slave, who they decide to play a trick on by removing his hat. Jim then proceeds to claim that he had been attacked by witches. After the boys arrive at the cave, Tom reads an oath comprised of stories from pirate books. Humor is shown here, as Tom and the gang decide to ‘ransom’ their captives, even though they do not understand what ‘ransoming’ is, thus showing the ignorance of the gang. The next day Huck’s shrewdness is portrayed as he deems Miss Watson’s idea of praying futile, due to the fact that he had prayed once before only to receive a fishing line with no hooks, as well as during Tom’s escapade fighting “Arab’s and elephants” which in all actuality turned out to be a children’s picnic which Huck quickly became bored with.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins with Huckleberry Finn, the narrator of the story, depicting his new life to the reader. Huck Finn runs away form the Widow Douglas who tries desperately to civilize him. The widow hopes to properly educate Huck and teach him about religion. Miss Watson, the widow’s sister teaches Huck about Heaven and explains to him that if he does not behave well, he will have to go to Hell. Huck, being the young and naïve boy he is, decides that he would rather go to Hell than be stuck at home learning boring lessons out of the Bible. On his way to meet Tom Sawyer, Huck’s sense of superstition kicks in when he accidentally kills a spider and worries that he will suffer bad luck. On their way to the secret hideout, Tom and Huck pass Jim, Miss Watson’s slave, who they decide to play a trick on by removing his hat. Jim then proceeds to claim that he had been attacked by witches. After the boys arrive at the cave, Tom reads an oath comprised of stories from pirate books. Humor is shown here, as Tom and the gang decide to ‘ransom’ their captives, even though they do not understand what ‘ransoming’ is, thus showing the ignorance of the gang. The next day Huck’s shrewdness is portrayed as he deems Miss Watson’s idea of praying futile, due to the fact that he had prayed once before only to receive a fishing line with no hooks, as well as during Tom’s escapade fighting “Arab’s and elephants” which in all actuality turned out to be a children’s picnic which Huck quickly became bored with.