he end of the book when she has to identify Tom and Huck.Widow Douglass and Miss Watson - Adopted Huck and attempted to sell Jim, they both ended up running away.Author, Title, and SettingThe Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, by Mark Twain, is a very interesting book about the adventures of Huck, Jim and his friend Tom. The adventures mainly take place along the Mississippi River, sometimes on a raft, other times along the bank. They want to reach Cairo, where they want to board a steamship up the Ohio and into the free states, where Jim can be a free slave. They come across many southerners who want to start trouble with them, and start many controversies. They also have many problems on the trip, like the weather, animals, and the water for instance. “we couldn’t take the raft upstream” (Jim, page 97). PlotThe story basically starts from the ending of Tom Sawyer, they got the gold from the robbers, which gave them each around $6,000. They then put this money in the hands of Judge Thatcher. Huck and Tom later signed the money over to the judge, because Huck’s drunk of a father came back to town. In the beginning Huck lived with Widow Douglass and her sister, who were attempting to make Huck very nice and civilized. He then became tired of sitting in the house and being civilized, and put on his old ragged clothes and left. Later in the story Tom and Huck were walking around a house, where Jim was a slave, and one of them fell and made a noise. Jim talked with them and they told him to say it was witches. Jim later became a sort of celebrity for this, because he enjoyed telling the stories to everyone. Tom and Huck then meet up with a couple of their friends and set sail to the cave, where Tom wants to set up a band of robber’s that he wants to call “Tom Sawyer’s Gang.” The town gets word that someone’s body has been found in the river, and by the look of the person, wh...
