Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a cast of... read more

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Summary

This book is packed with action, funney, adventure, and a lot of WOW!
First the book starts off with Huck at a widow's house.she has tooken him in to try to make him civilized. but still hucksneaks out at night to sleep in the doorways, and at night he would change into his ratty old... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Cast of Characters

Huckelberry Finn: An adventurous boy who runs away and teams up with a runaway slave. He is verygood at making survival tools, and always has a straw hat
Jim: A runaway slave who teams up with Huck. Jim is quiet and tries to play it safe.
Tom Sawyer: An adventurous boy who tries to make things more complicated than they need to be.
Huckleberry Finn: Add a description of this character.

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Memorable Quotes

“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”
“"those sneaky, dirt bag red-handed crooks." "Well, huck this is grown up thing, now run along." (mimicly)”
Huck
“She was going to live so as to go to the good place.”
“What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”
“If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.”

First Sentence

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter.

1) Huck's new life
2) Pap returns
3) escape
4) finding Jim
5) The woman helps Huck
6) Murderers on the Wreaked Steamboat
7) The King and Duke
8) The Royal Nnonsuch
9) The Shameful Scheme
10) The Plan Begins to work
11) Exposing the Frauds
12) Tom sawyer arrives
13) Tom plans jims escape
14) the Gateway
15) Tom's confession