Chapter 1
Huck and Widow
Huck and Miss Watson
Chapter 2
Huck and Tom
Huck and Jim
Huck and the Gang
Chapter 3
Huck and Miss Watson
Huck and the widow
Huck and Miss Watson
Huck and Tom
Chapter 5
Huck and Pap
Pap and Judge Thatcher
Pap and the new judge
Chapter 7
Huck and Pap
Chapter 8
Huck and Jim
Chapter 9
Huck and Jim (and dead Pap)
Chapter 10
Huck and Jim
Chapter 11
Huck pretends to be a girl so that he can find out what is going on in town, and find out the latest about his murder and Jim's escape. He meets Judith Loftus, who reveals that she is sending her husband to Jackson Island on a hunch that Jim is hiding there. She catches him playing a girl, but doesn't suspect he is Huck. Huck returns to the island and rousts Jim and they leave the island.
Huck (as Sarah Mary Williams) and Mrs. Judith Loftus
Huck and Jim (at the campfire preparing to escape)
Chapter 12
Jim and Huck find a wrecked steamboat, and climb aboard to get some loot (or truck). But there are three thieves on the wreck, and they are about to kill one of them for betrayal. Huck and Jim escape.
Jim and Huck.
Jim Turner, Bill, Jake Packard on the Steamboat wreck.
Chapter 13
Huck solicits the help of a watchman on a ferry boat to 'rescue' his 'aunt' on the wreck. He wants the thieves to be saved so they can be hung. But the wreck is soon lost, and the watchman's mission is a failure, or at least that is what we think.
Jim and Huck.
A Watchman.
Jim Turner, Jake and Bill. (Somewhere in the wreck it is implied)
Chapter 14
Jim and Huck are back on the raft, looking through the truck, and having a conversation. Huck talks about Kings and Dukes, and about Frenchmen.
This was, according to Hearn, a favorite chapter of Twain's. Huck tries to explain talking French, and Jim argues it doesn't make sense. Huck talks about King Solomon, and when the anecdote of the threat to cut the baby in half comes up, Jim argues that he is a bad king, since he literally thinks the King was going to split the baby.
At first this seems to create a sense of Jim's ignorance- taking things too literally. But on a deeper level Jim is calling out an injustice. If noone ever explained the wisdom of the threat to Jim as socratic irony, then of course Jim is going to fight for the child.
Jim and Huck.
Chapter 15
One of the most important chapters in the book, probably even literature. Here Huck and Jim get separated by a storm, and by the time they are reunited Jim is asleep. Huck convinces Jim that he dreamed the storm up, and Jim goes for the trick. But eventually, when Huck asks about the river trash on the raft, Jim realizes that there was a storm, and that his agony about having lost Huck was real. Jim admonishes Huck for the trick, and Huck, not quite for the first time, but definitely for the first consciencious time, feels Jim's pain and apologizes.
Jim and Huck
Chapter 16
As a result of the encounter in chapter 15, where Huck awakens to the humanity in Jim, this chapter sets up the duel of temperament and conscience, heart and conscience.
Twain himself states in his reading notes in 1885-86, according to Hearn, "a sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision and conscience suffers defeat".
Unaware that they have passed Cairo, and therefore the easy path to freedom for Jim, Jim is sure that they are near the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi where a turn to the north will award freedom. He begins to anticipate, with Joy, this event.
He will save up money and buy his wife. Then they will both save up money and buy his kids back.
Huck, in the middle of this heart/head struggle, begins to judge himself as worthy of eternal punishment because he is helping a man to freedom, and not only that:
"... and saying that he would steal his children- children that belonged to a man I didn't even know: a man that hadn't ever done me no harm."
Huck actually breaks into a dialogue with his conscience, and finally makes a deal with it. He will turn in Jim.
In a perfect example of Ignatius' description of false consolation, Huck observes, once he has made up his mind, or negotiated with his conscience, to turn Jim over to runaway slave hunters:
"I felt easy, and happy, and light as a feather. All my troubles was gone. I went to looking out sharp for a light and sort of singing to myself."
Look for the tail of the snake, Ignatius cautions.
Huck takes off in the canoe, ostensibly to find out where Cairo is. He meets two men in a skiff. They ask him whether there are any men on it.
The battle continues. As Huck was rowing to the shore, Jim keeps shouting to Huck. Huck is his friend. His only friend. "...de on'y white genlman dat ever kep' his promise to old Jim'"
Huck "... it seemed to kind of take the tuck all out of me."
And so the consolation is revealed as desolation. A betrayal of Jim leads to death of the soul, away from God. The conscience has suffered defeat.
Huck then plays what Jim calls the 'smartes dodge'. He pretends that his pap is on the raft with smallpox (although he never says this; the men just assume).
The men leave, but not without feeling guilty that they have abandoned Huck and his pap for their own safety. They both offer 20 dollars each to Huck.
A side note: In what is probably an unnoticed line, Huck says: " Then we (he and Jim) talked about the money. It was a pretty good raise; twenty dollars apiece."
Not, "I gave Jim twenty dollars." Not, we pooled our money to buy something later. Huck just says, as a matter of fact, that they both got twenty dollars out of the ruse. Huck shows that he has shifted from the trickster in chapter 15 to a friend and partner here. It is a huge shift.
Huck returns to the raft, and continues his battle with his conscience. This is a 14 year old boy. He asks himself "s'pose you'd a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than what you do now? No, says I [who is he talking to?] I'd feel bad- I'd feel just the same way I do now." He observes that because he didn't get started right (the conscience trained by associations) he is 'beat'
He vows from this point on to always do whichever come handiest at the time.
Finally, Huck is separated from Jim when the raft is struck by a riverboat.
The book takes a side trip to the Grandersons.
Jim and Huck.
Two slave hunters.
An unnamed man setting a trot line.
A riverboat pilot shouting at them when the raft is struck by the boat.
Chapter 17.
(Hearn posits that this chapter came after a long break in writing.)
This chapter sets up the dark story of a family that is involved in a feud. Although only hinted at in this chapter, we get the premonition that something is wrong here. Boys with guns. A Father that assures the 14 year old son that his time to shoot someone with the gun will surely come. The obsession with death that their deceased daughter reveals with poetry and drawing.
Huck begins to befriend Buck, a boy his age.
He has inner dialog (again this is a 14 year old boy) about poetry, and about his thoughts of the deceased daughter, Emmeline and her macabre poetry and art.
Huck. (as George Jackson)
The Grangerford family. Colonel. Buck. Emmaline (deceased). Tom and Bob. Charlotte. Sophia.
Servants.
Three sons that got killed.
Chapter 18.
Huck.
Grangerford family.
Harney Shepherson.
Sophia (asking Huck to retrieve a note in her bible at church)
Hucks slave, Jack. (who leads him to Jim)
Jim.
Huck learns about the feud from Buck when they are out near the river and see Harney on a horse. Buck shoots at him. Harney fires back. Noone is shot. Huck asks about the feud, and Buck doesn't really know what started it.
Huck claims that Harney is a coward for firing at them. Buck defends all the Shepherdsons as brave.
Buck and Huck, the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons go to church with their guns. They sit together and listen to a sermon about faith, good works, and free grace. And 'preforeordestination', a neologism of tenants of Presbyterianism. Predestination and Foreordination.
Obviously the two families are not hearing any of this, but Huck notices the irony. ".. it did seem to me to be one of the roughest Sundays I had run across yet."
Jack leads Huck to a secret hiding place where he finds Jim. The Grangerford slaves have helped Jim. The raft is not wrecked after all.
Sophia runs off with Harney.
The Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons go to battle and the Col and his two brothers were killed. Huck goes after them, climbs a tree and then witnesses as the Shepherdsons kill Buck and his cousin. He cries.
Huck blames himself for failing to warn the Col that the message to Sophia from Harney had been relayed by Huck. Once again he thinks that an outcome brought about by the evils of humankind is somehow the result of his failure to follow his conscience, rather than to trust his heart.
Huck is reunited with Jim at the raft, and once again Jim tells Huck how he is so happy that Huck is not dead. He was waiting for Jack to confirm whether Huck was alive before he took off in the raft, not wanting to abandon Huck.
Chapter 19
Huck and Jim start the chapter on the river. Twain writes, through Huck, a masterpiece of a description of the river. It is the language of Huck that makes it distinguished, and Hearn writes that several authors have called this first part of the chapter Twains masterpiece. I've studied this myself in writing my description of the Broomfield farm.
Huck eventually leaves the raft to find a canoe, and runs into two rascals, who attempt to convince each other that they are a Duke and a Dauphin. Huck doesn't buy it, but doesn't let on, to keep the peace on the raft. Jim seems to think it's all on the up and up.
Huck.
Jim.
Duke.
Dauphin (king).
HERE I'VE READ RECENTLY IN HUCK AND MARK TWAIN THAT WE REALLY NOTICE THAT THE TIME ON THE RIVER IS TIME OF FREEDOM AND GOODNESS, AND TIME IN THE TOWNS FROM NOW ON WILL SHOW THE EVILNESS OF HUMANKIND.
Chapter 20
Still on the raft, Huck makes up a story about how he and Jim travel together because Jim belonged to Huck's father, who died in an accident between a steamboat and the raft.
The Duke and the Dauphin rehearse Shakespeare.
Huck and the King go to town and a town meeting. The Duke goes to a print shop (to print bills for showing that they were taking Jim back to his owner as a captured run away).
The King has an altar call as a pirate.
They leave the town richer, and are able to raft in the daytime because they now had the runaway slave flyer to show.
Huck
Jim
Duke
Dauphin
Chapter 21
Duke and King rehearse Shakespeare. Duke teaches Hamlet to the King, and Huck learns it as well.
The find a one horse town, full of 'loafers' who play tricks on dogs and hogs.
Boggs, the drunk, comes to town to harrass Sherburn. Sherburn gives him an ultimatum and eventually shoots Boggs dead. The town has fetched Boggs' daughter, but too late.
After a time of gawking, the townspeople call for lynching Sherburn.
Huck has soberly observed all of this.
Huck
Duke
Jim (at first)
King.
Loafers
Boggs
Colonel Sherburn
Boggs' daughter
Chapter 22
The mob reaches Sherburns house. He chides them for being cowards. His speech is that all men are cowards and only have courage as a mob. The crowd disburses.
Huck goes to a circus. He is fooled into thinking the clown is making up his lines ad hoc. A drunk wants to ride a horse and despite the protests of the ringmaster, finally gets his chance. The drunk pretends to be out of control, but eventually it is clear that he is actually a performer. But Huck never gets this. He has fooled Huck.
The King and Duke do their show after the circus, but it fails.
The second show is advertised for men only- no ladies and children.
Huck
Duke
King
Ringmaster
Drunk foil
Clown
Chapter 23
The new show at the courthouse. The show is short. The townspeople feel ripped off, but don't want to let the others in the town know they were tricked. They get the word out that the show is great so everyone in town will come. The second night is packed. But the third night the town comes with rotten vegetables and eggs, ready to get their revenge. But the 3 have long skipped out to the raft and the river.
Jim then observes that the King and Duke are 'rapscallions'. Huck defends them by citing fictions about other kings and says they aren't as bad. 'You got to make allowances...'.
Jim still thinks they are real royalty.
Then begins another moment of transformation:
'...I do believe that he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n.'
Huck gets Jim to talk about what is so agonizing to him that he is moaning and mourning.
Jim recounts the story of when he beat his daughter Elizabeth because she wasn't responding to him after he asked her to 'shet de do'. She had just had scarlet fever.
He tests the deafness by slamming the door, and then shouting, and he realized she was deaf. He is overcome with grief, and now is so ashamed of his behavior, 'de Lord God Almighty forgive po' ole Jim.'
Jim models the guilt and shame that comes from behavior that comes from ignorance, and how the solution for him is to ask for forgiveness from God.
Huck once again is exposed to the absolute humanity of Jim.
Huck
King
Duke
Jim back at the raft
Chapter 24
Duke dresses Jim up as a 'sick Arab' so that they don't have to tie Jim up all day as the 'captured runaway slave'. There is an ironic glimpse of humanity there- Jim was complaining that it was hard to have ropes on all day, and the Duke took pity.
Learning that wealthy man named Peter has died, without seeing his brother William and his other brother Harvey, from England, the King hatches a plan to defraud the family out of the Wilkes fortune.
Huck learns of this, and although he admires the plan, states "It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race".
Duke (as a deaf and dumb man), William Wilkes
King (as Reverand Elexander Blodgett), then as Harvey Wilkes
Jim
Huck(also the 'servant' Aldolphus)
A young jake
Some towns folk.
Chapter 25
The King hatches the scheme, introduces himself as Peter's long lost brother, reads the letter giving him some of the estate (the rest goes to the girls, brother George's) and then gives all the money to the girls. The Doctor shows up and accuses them of being frauds, but noone buys it.
Mary Jane Wilkes
King (as Harvey)
Duke (as William)
Huck
Dr Robinson
Abner Shackleford
Chapter 26
King arranges for rooms for the night. Joanne grills Huck about England. Huck uses his imagination to answer questions but gets caught in lies by Joanne. He manages to wiggle out of the lie each time. Mary Jane admonishes Joanne for accusing Huck. So does Susan. Joanne has to apologize. Huck then realizes he is helping defraud these decent girls, and vows to steal the money after the heist and give it back.
Huck steals the money and sets out to hide it.
Huck (still the valley (sic))
King
Duke
Mary Jane
Susan (one of the sisters)
Joanna (another sister, a hare-lip)
Chapter 10
Huck and Jim
Chapter 11
Huck pretends to be a girl so that he can find out what is going on in town, and find out the latest about his murder and Jim's escape. He meets Judith Loftus, who reveals that she is sending her husband to Jackson Island on a hunch that Jim is hiding there. She catches him playing a girl, but doesn't suspect he is Huck. Huck returns to the island and rousts Jim and they leave the island.
Huck (as Sarah Mary Williams) and Mrs. Judith Loftus
Huck and Jim (at the campfire preparing to escape)
Chapter 12
Jim and Huck find a wrecked steamboat, and climb aboard to get some loot (or truck). But there are three thieves on the wreck, and they are about to kill one of them for betrayal. Huck and Jim escape.
Jim and Huck.
Jim Turner, Bill, Jake Packard on the Steamboat wreck.
Chapter 13
Huck solicits the help of a watchman on a ferry boat to 'rescue' his 'aunt' on the wreck. He wants the thieves to be saved so they can be hung. But the wreck is soon lost, and the watchman's mission is a failure, or at least that is what we think.
Jim and Huck.
A Watchman.
Jim Turner, Jake and Bill. (Somewhere in the wreck it is implied)
Chapter 14
Jim and Huck are back on the raft, looking through the truck, and having a conversation. Huck talks about Kings and Dukes, and about Frenchmen.
This was, according to Hearn, a favorite chapter of Twain's. Huck tries to explain talking French, and Jim argues it doesn't make sense. Huck talks about King Solomon, and when the anecdote of the threat to cut the baby in half comes up, Jim argues that he is a bad king, since he literally thinks the King was going to split the baby.
At first this seems to create a sense of Jim's ignorance- taking things too literally. But on a deeper level Jim is calling out an injustice. If noone ever explained the wisdom of the threat to Jim as socratic irony, then of course Jim is going to fight for the child.
Jim and Huck.
Chapter 15
One of the most important chapters in the book, probably even literature. Here Huck and Jim get separated by a storm, and by the time they are reunited Jim is asleep. Huck convinces Jim that he dreamed the storm up, and Jim goes for the trick. But eventually, when Huck asks about the river trash on the raft, Jim realizes that there was a storm, and that his agony about having lost Huck was real. Jim admonishes Huck for the trick, and Huck, not quite for the first time, but definitely for the first consciencious time, feels Jim's pain and apologizes.
Jim and Huck
Chapter 16
As a result of the encounter in chapter 15, where Huck awakens to the humanity in Jim, this chapter sets up the duel of temperament and conscience, heart and conscience.
Twain himself states in his reading notes in 1885-86, according to Hearn, "a sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision and conscience suffers defeat".
Unaware that they have passed Cairo, and therefore the easy path to freedom for Jim, Jim is sure that they are near the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi where a turn to the north will award freedom. He begins to anticipate, with Joy, this event.
He will save up money and buy his wife. Then they will both save up money and buy his kids back.
Huck, in the middle of this heart/head struggle, begins to judge himself as worthy of eternal punishment because he is helping a man to freedom, and not only that:
"... and saying that he would steal his children- children that belonged to a man I didn't even know: a man that hadn't ever done me no harm."
Huck actually breaks into a dialogue with his conscience, and finally makes a deal with it. He will turn in Jim.
In a perfect example of Ignatius' description of false consolation, Huck observes, once he has made up his mind, or negotiated with his conscience, to turn Jim over to runaway slave hunters:
"I felt easy, and happy, and light as a feather. All my troubles was gone. I went to looking out sharp for a light and sort of singing to myself."
Look for the tail of the snake, Ignatius cautions.
Huck takes off in the canoe, ostensibly to find out where Cairo is. He meets two men in a skiff. They ask him whether there are any men on it.
The battle continues. As Huck was rowing to the shore, Jim keeps shouting to Huck. Huck is his friend. His only friend. "...de on'y white genlman dat ever kep' his promise to old Jim'"
Huck "... it seemed to kind of take the tuck all out of me."
And so the consolation is revealed as desolation. A betrayal of Jim leads to death of the soul, away from God. The conscience has suffered defeat.
Huck then plays what Jim calls the 'smartes dodge'. He pretends that his pap is on the raft with smallpox (although he never says this; the men just assume).
The men leave, but not without feeling guilty that they have abandoned Huck and his pap for their own safety. They both offer 20 dollars each to Huck.
A side note: In what is probably an unnoticed line, Huck says: " Then we (he and Jim) talked about the money. It was a pretty good raise; twenty dollars apiece."
Not, "I gave Jim twenty dollars." Not, we pooled our money to buy something later. Huck just says, as a matter of fact, that they both got twenty dollars out of the ruse. Huck shows that he has shifted from the trickster in chapter 15 to a friend and partner here. It is a huge shift.
Huck returns to the raft, and continues his battle with his conscience. This is a 14 year old boy. He asks himself "s'pose you'd a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than what you do now? No, says I [who is he talking to?] I'd feel bad- I'd feel just the same way I do now." He observes that because he didn't get started right (the conscience trained by associations) he is 'beat'
He vows from this point on to always do whichever come handiest at the time.
Finally, Huck is separated from Jim when the raft is struck by a riverboat.
The book takes a side trip to the Grandersons.
Jim and Huck.
Two slave hunters.
An unnamed man setting a trot line.
A riverboat pilot shouting at them when the raft is struck by the boat.
Chapter 17.
(Hearn posits that this chapter came after a long break in writing.)
This chapter sets up the dark story of a family that is involved in a feud. Although only hinted at in this chapter, we get the premonition that something is wrong here. Boys with guns. A Father that assures the 14 year old son that his time to shoot someone with the gun will surely come. The obsession with death that their deceased daughter reveals with poetry and drawing.
Huck begins to befriend Buck, a boy his age.
He has inner dialog (again this is a 14 year old boy) about poetry, and about his thoughts of the deceased daughter, Emmeline and her macabre poetry and art.
Huck. (as George Jackson)
The Grangerford family. Colonel. Buck. Emmaline (deceased). Tom and Bob. Charlotte. Sophia.
Servants.
Three sons that got killed.
Chapter 18.
Huck.
Grangerford family.
Harney Shepherson.
Sophia (asking Huck to retrieve a note in her bible at church)
Hucks slave, Jack. (who leads him to Jim)
Jim.
Huck learns about the feud from Buck when they are out near the river and see Harney on a horse. Buck shoots at him. Harney fires back. Noone is shot. Huck asks about the feud, and Buck doesn't really know what started it.
Huck claims that Harney is a coward for firing at them. Buck defends all the Shepherdsons as brave.
Buck and Huck, the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons go to church with their guns. They sit together and listen to a sermon about faith, good works, and free grace. And 'preforeordestination', a neologism of tenants of Presbyterianism. Predestination and Foreordination.
Obviously the two families are not hearing any of this, but Huck notices the irony. ".. it did seem to me to be one of the roughest Sundays I had run across yet."
Jack leads Huck to a secret hiding place where he finds Jim. The Grangerford slaves have helped Jim. The raft is not wrecked after all.
Sophia runs off with Harney.
The Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons go to battle and the Col and his two brothers were killed. Huck goes after them, climbs a tree and then witnesses as the Shepherdsons kill Buck and his cousin. He cries.
Huck blames himself for failing to warn the Col that the message to Sophia from Harney had been relayed by Huck. Once again he thinks that an outcome brought about by the evils of humankind is somehow the result of his failure to follow his conscience, rather than to trust his heart.
Huck is reunited with Jim at the raft, and once again Jim tells Huck how he is so happy that Huck is not dead. He was waiting for Jack to confirm whether Huck was alive before he took off in the raft, not wanting to abandon Huck.
Chapter 19
Huck and Jim start the chapter on the river. Twain writes, through Huck, a masterpiece of a description of the river. It is the language of Huck that makes it distinguished, and Hearn writes that several authors have called this first part of the chapter Twains masterpiece. I've studied this myself in writing my description of the Broomfield farm.
Huck eventually leaves the raft to find a canoe, and runs into two rascals, who attempt to convince each other that they are a Duke and a Dauphin. Huck doesn't buy it, but doesn't let on, to keep the peace on the raft. Jim seems to think it's all on the up and up.
Huck.
Jim.
Duke.
Dauphin (king).
HERE I'VE READ RECENTLY IN HUCK AND MARK TWAIN THAT WE REALLY NOTICE THAT THE TIME ON THE RIVER IS TIME OF FREEDOM AND GOODNESS, AND TIME IN THE TOWNS FROM NOW ON WILL SHOW THE EVILNESS OF HUMANKIND.
Chapter 20
Still on the raft, Huck makes up a story about how he and Jim travel together because Jim belonged to Huck's father, who died in an accident between a steamboat and the raft.
The Duke and the Dauphin rehearse Shakespeare.
Huck and the King go to town and a town meeting. The Duke goes to a print shop (to print bills for showing that they were taking Jim back to his owner as a captured run away).
The King has an altar call as a pirate.
They leave the town richer, and are able to raft in the daytime because they now had the runaway slave flyer to show.
Huck
Jim
Duke
Dauphin
Chapter 21
Duke and King rehearse Shakespeare. Duke teaches Hamlet to the King, and Huck learns it as well.
The find a one horse town, full of 'loafers' who play tricks on dogs and hogs.
Boggs, the drunk, comes to town to harrass Sherburn. Sherburn gives him an ultimatum and eventually shoots Boggs dead. The town has fetched Boggs' daughter, but too late.
After a time of gawking, the townspeople call for lynching Sherburn.
Huck has soberly observed all of this.
Huck
Duke
Jim (at first)
King.
Loafers
Boggs
Colonel Sherburn
Boggs' daughter
Chapter 22
The mob reaches Sherburns house. He chides them for being cowards. His speech is that all men are cowards and only have courage as a mob. The crowd disburses.
Huck goes to a circus. He is fooled into thinking the clown is making up his lines ad hoc. A drunk wants to ride a horse and despite the protests of the ringmaster, finally gets his chance. The drunk pretends to be out of control, but eventually it is clear that he is actually a performer. But Huck never gets this. He has fooled Huck.
The King and Duke do their show after the circus, but it fails.
The second show is advertised for men only- no ladies and children.
Huck
Duke
King
Ringmaster
Drunk foil
Clown
Chapter 23
The new show at the courthouse. The show is short. The townspeople feel ripped off, but don't want to let the others in the town know they were tricked. They get the word out that the show is great so everyone in town will come. The second night is packed. But the third night the town comes with rotten vegetables and eggs, ready to get their revenge. But the 3 have long skipped out to the raft and the river.
Jim then observes that the King and Duke are 'rapscallions'. Huck defends them by citing fictions about other kings and says they aren't as bad. 'You got to make allowances...'.
Jim still thinks they are real royalty.
Then begins another moment of transformation:
'...I do believe that he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n.'
Huck gets Jim to talk about what is so agonizing to him that he is moaning and mourning.
Jim recounts the story of when he beat his daughter Elizabeth because she wasn't responding to him after he asked her to 'shet de do'. She had just had scarlet fever.
He tests the deafness by slamming the door, and then shouting, and he realized she was deaf. He is overcome with grief, and now is so ashamed of his behavior, 'de Lord God Almighty forgive po' ole Jim.'
Jim models the guilt and shame that comes from behavior that comes from ignorance, and how the solution for him is to ask for forgiveness from God.
Huck once again is exposed to the absolute humanity of Jim.
Huck
King
Duke
Jim back at the raft
Chapter 24
Duke dresses Jim up as a 'sick Arab' so that they don't have to tie Jim up all day as the 'captured runaway slave'. There is an ironic glimpse of humanity there- Jim was complaining that it was hard to have ropes on all day, and the Duke took pity.
Learning that wealthy man named Peter has died, without seeing his brother William and his other brother Harvey, from England, the King hatches a plan to defraud the family out of the Wilkes fortune.
Huck learns of this, and although he admires the plan, states "It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race".
Duke (as a deaf and dumb man), William Wilkes
King (as Reverand Elexander Blodgett), then as Harvey Wilkes
Jim
Huck(also the 'servant' Aldolphus)
A young jake
Some towns folk.
Chapter 25
The King hatches the scheme, introduces himself as Peter's long lost brother, reads the letter giving him some of the estate (the rest goes to the girls, brother George's) and then gives all the money to the girls. The Doctor shows up and accuses them of being frauds, but noone buys it.
Mary Jane Wilkes
King (as Harvey)
Duke (as William)
Huck
Dr Robinson
Abner Shackleford
Chapter 26
King arranges for rooms for the night. Joanne grills Huck about England. Huck uses his imagination to answer questions but gets caught in lies by Joanne. He manages to wiggle out of the lie each time. Mary Jane admonishes Joanne for accusing Huck. So does Susan. Joanne has to apologize. Huck then realizes he is helping defraud these decent girls, and vows to steal the money after the heist and give it back.
Huck steals the money and sets out to hide it.
Huck (still the valley (sic))
King
Duke
Mary Jane
Susan (one of the sisters)
Joanna (another sister, a hare-lip)
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