ation where Aunt Sally answers the door thinking Huck is her nephew TomSawyer. Huck is reassured by this since he would be able to make up storiesbetter. Huck must go and meet Tom though at the steamboat and explain thesituation. Tom agrees to play along and becomes Sid Sawyer, Tom's youngerbrother. Together in the next chapter, the two boys think of how they can freeJim. Tom thinks of the ultimate plan of course that would take three times aslong to carry out compared to Huck's. But he agrees to follow Tom's absurdplans to make the boy happy, but it ends up causing a lot of unneeded chaos. Aunt Sally starts to find things are missing, Jim has to endure having spidersand rats in his room, and there is a lack of time because Mr. Phelps will bereturning soon. The next chapter begins with the escape of Jim which does notgo as planned. Fifteen men from town come to the house with guns, allprepared for the "desperate men from the Indian Territory." They end upchasing the boys through the woods when they hear their noise and shoot Tomin the leg. Huck and Tom tell Tom he must go see a doctor. Following thischapter, Huck is discovered by an Uncle and must return home since Aunt Sallythinks he ran away. Jim is found and captured again and Tom is brought homeand explained to Aunt Sally their whole plan for trying to free Jim. And then AuntPolly arrives from St. Petersburg. So the boys true identities are at lastrevealed. Jim is freed and tells Huck the dead man who was shot in the back,that they had discovered on the floating house, was his Pap after all. Huckdecides it is time to set off again because Aunt Sally wants to civilize him and hedoes not want that. So the novel seems to end as it began. Huck just wants tobe free and he seems to function as a much nobler person when he is notconfined by "sivilization."...
