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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Both novels are set in St. Petersburg, Missouri on the banks of the Mississippi River. At the end of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn gained quite a bit of money from his adventures with his friend and partner-in-crime, Tom Sawyer. He was adopted by Widow Douglas who lived with her sister Miss Watson.
At the beginning of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is not too happy with his new life. He has to go to church and school and be well behaved. However, Tom Sawyer tells him that he can’t join his gang unless he stays respectable. Everything goes fine until Pap comes back into town demanding money from Huck. The Widow tries to get legal custody of Huck but a judge in town believes that Pap should have some rights as a father so he takes him home with him to try and reform him. This effort fails miserably because Pap soon returns to his old ways by harassing his son for several months before kidnapping Huck and holding him in an abandoned cabin across the river from St. Petersburg where they live
Whenever Pap goes out, he locks Huck in the cabin and beats him. Huck is tired of being confined to the house and fears that Pap will beat him more often. So, he escapes from Pap by faking his own death. He kills a pig and spreads its blood all over the cabin so that people think that it’s his blood. Hiding on Jackson’s Island in the middle of the Mississippi River, Huck watches as townspeople search for his body. After a few days on the island, he meets Jim who has run away from Miss Watson after hearing her talk about selling him to a plantation down river where he would be treated horribly and separated from his wife and children. Together they team up despite their doubts about whether or not helping Jim is legal or moral because they’re afraid what might happen if they get caught without help since there are no other people around them at this time except for dead bodies floating down with logs in high water levels during heavy storms near an abandoned log raft which was left behind by someone else who had been living there before due to flooding levels rising too high while trying to escape flood waters caused by heavy rainstorms along with strong winds blowing hard enough to pick up houses off of their foundations then float them downstream until eventually getting stuck against each other forming huge piles of debris causing further damage when crashing into other structures such as bridges spanning across rivers blocking traffic flow between roads trapping those trapped inside homes unable to leave unless rescued through emergency services helicopters dropping rescue personnel onto rooftops using ropes attached through harnesses strapped securely around waists secured tightly around backsides pulling stranded victims safely aboard aircrafts transporting them back home safe & sound once again
The island is a great place to live, but Huck and Jim have to leave because of the husband’s suspicions. The reward for Jim’s capture has also been raised. They decide to go downriver on the raft until they can get back onto land and travel upriver in a steamboat to freedom. On their way, they encounter some robbers who are after their loot (they stole from them), but manage to escape with it anyway.
During a night of thick fog, Huck and Jim missed the mouth of the Ohio river. They encountered a group of men looking for escaped slaves. Huck had to lie about where he was from in order not to get caught with his friend who was an escaped slave. The men on the boat were terrified that they would catch smallpox, so they gave them money and left quickly. Now that Huck and Jim were separated from each other, they continued downriver by themselves without any navigation tools or technology like GPS or maps..
