Adventures of Huckleberry Finn After The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer, Huck was adopted by the widow Douglas who wants to
“civilize” him and so he joined Tom’s band of robbers. One day,
Huck’s father Pap, a violent drunkard, appears in St.
Petersburg. When a new judge arrives, Pap gains custody of his
son and moves to a cabin on the other side of the river. Huck is
kept locked but fakes his own death and hides on Jackson’s
Island, a small island on the river. There he meets Miss
Watson’s black slave Jim who ran away. When they find a raft,
they decide to go to a free state. After a storm, a house is
floating down the river and they enter it and grab what they
can. Inside, there is a dead man shot in the back and Jim
prevents Huck from seeing the dead man’s face. Huck dresses as a
girl and returns to town because he wants to hear what’s going
on in town. A woman tells that Jim is considered to be Huck’s
murderer. Moreover, she is suspicious about Huck’s true sex and
reveals that he is a boy. Huck returns to the is