Huck makes it look as if someone killed him and then runs away to Jackson Island. While on Jackson Island he runs into Jim, a slave who ran away from the widow and Mrs. Watson. They decide to sail down the Mississippi until they get to a state where Jim will be free. On the way to a free state Huck and Jim had many adventures. Huck met the Grangerford family, who was involved in a feud with the Shepherdsons, and he stayed with them until one day all of them got shot and killed by Shepherdsons. On their journey Huck and Jim also met two men who called themselves the king and the duke. They were greedy thieves who forced their way on board Huck’s raft. Shortly thereafter they arrive in a little Tennessee town where the duke and the king expect to rob the Wilks girls of their inheritance by playing the parts of the girls uncles, a parson and a deaf mute. Huck comes to feel badly for the girls and tells them that the king and the duke aren’t their actual uncles. Before Mary Jane can do anything, the girls’ real uncles show up and the town decides they are both frauds. They decide to tar and feather them. While all the commotion is going on Jim and Huck try to slip away, but they are noticed. While trying to escape Huck is shot so Jim takes him back to the towns people to try and get Huck a doctor. The towns’ people are angry and decide to hang Jim. Just before they get the chance Mary Jane shows up with a gun and demands that they release the slave and get Huck to a doctor. Well in the end Huck gets well and Jim becomes a free man because on their journeys Mrs. Watson died and in her will she gave Jim his freedom. The plot is written in chronological order. ...
