Huckleberry Finn
The documentation of this book is done as Susan Wise-Bauer recommends it in The Well Educated Mind.
Characters
Who are they?
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
Widow Douglas: adopted Huck.
Miss Watson: Widow Douglas' sister.
Jim: Miss Watson's slave.
Jo Harper: Member of the Tom Sawyer gang.
Ben Rogers: Member of the Tom Sawyer gang.
Judge Thatcher: Has Huck's money.
Grangerfords:
Col. Grangerford: head of the Grangerford familiy.
Buck: youngest of the family.
Bob
Tom
Miss Charlotte
Miss Sophia: Ran away with a Shepherdson.
The duke of Bilgewater
The king Looey the 17
Wilks family: the family which the duke and the kind stole from.
Mary Jane: eldest daughter of the deceased.
Silas Phelps: Tom's uncle.
Sally Phelps: Tom's aunt-
Polly: Tom's other aunt.
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
Widow Douglas: adopted Huck.
Miss Watson: Widow Douglas' sister.
Jim: Miss Watson's slave.
Jo Harper: Member of the Tom Sawyer gang.
Ben Rogers: Member of the Tom Sawyer gang.
Judge Thatcher: Has Huck's money.
Grangerfords:
Col. Grangerford: head of the Grangerford familiy.
Buck: youngest of the family.
Bob
Tom
Miss Charlotte
Miss Sophia: Ran away with a Shepherdson.
The duke of Bilgewater
The king Looey the 17
Wilks family: the family which the duke and the kind stole from.
Mary Jane: eldest daughter of the deceased.
Silas Phelps: Tom's uncle.
Sally Phelps: Tom's aunt-
Polly: Tom's other aunt.
Chapter 1
After getting tired of the widows teaching and her sisters classes, Huck meets Tom Sawyer after dark.
Chapter 2
Huck and Tom sneak past Jim, later meet up with the rest of the boys and form the Tom Sawyer Gang.
Chapter 3
Tom Sawyer, like Don Quixote, imagines things and invents stories for the boys to do.
Chapter 4
Huck gives his fortune to Judge Thatcher, then goes and gets his future read by Jim's hair ball. He finds his dad in his room.
Chapter 5
Huck's dad cusses him out for trying to be better than him (reading and going to school), and tries to take his money. Huck's dad is taken in by the judge, but proves that he hasn't changed, and almost dies.
Chapter 6
Huck's dad kidnaps him and takes him to a cabin in Illinois, where he locks Huck in. He gets drunk and tries to kill Huck.
Chapter 7
Huck escapes from his dad, by staging his own murder.
Chapter 8
There is a rescue search for Huck's body, made by his friends. He finds Jim, who was running away, in the island where he had taken to live.
Chapter 9
Jim and Tom find a cave and made it their home. They find a house floating, find a dead body in it and grab supplies.
Chapter 10
Jim gets bitten by a rattlesnake, because of Hucks fault. Huck decides to go into town dressed as a girl, and goes to this lady's house.
Chapter 11
The lady caught him lying and found out he was a boy and told him of his own murder, telling him how everyone thought Jim was responsible. She also told him that her husband was going to the island to hunt Jim.
Chapter 12
Jim and Huck make their way on the river. They find a wrecked ship with a gang in it and lose their raft.
Chapter 13
Huck and Jim manahe to get off of the wreck on the gangs boat.
Chapter 14
Huck and Jim steal the gangs belongings, then start talking about life and argue about kings.
Chapter 15
Huck loses Jim and the Raft, then tricks Jim into thinking he was dreaming, and that he never left.
Chapter 16
A steam boat runs over the raft, separating Jim and Huck.
Chapter 17
A nice big family, the Grangerfords, take Huck in.
Chapter 18
The Grangerford and Shepherson feud.
Chapter 19
Huck gets two men out of trouble and it turns out that they are the "Duke of Bilgewater" and "King Looey the seventeenth".
Chapter 20
The adventures of Huck, the Duke and the King in a town.
Chapter 21
Huck, the Duke and the King go to a town, and prepare to do a Shakespeare presentation, and witness a murder.
Chapter 22
Huck enters a circus and the Duke and King perform the show.
Chapter 23
The Duke and the King play a trick on the town and then take off with their winnings. Jim talks about his family.
Chapter 24
The Duke and the King play their next trick on another town, they pretend to be the brothers of a man who passed away in order to get their inheritance.
Chapter 25
The Duke and the King get six thousand dollars as inheritance.
Chapter 26
Huck steals the money from the Duke and the King, deciding to give it to its rightful heirs, the daughters of the man who passed away.
Chapter 27
Huck hides the money, all becomes a mess, and the slaves get the blame.
Chapter 28
Huck tells Mary Jane (the eldest daughter) about the Duke and the Kings plan.
Chapter 29
Other men claiming that they are the rightful heirs come to town. Huck manages to escape, thinking that he was finally rid of the Duke and the King, but they catch up with him.
Chapter 30
Huck and Jim are still stuck with the Duke and King. They go to another town.
Chapter 31
Jim gets sold and Huck works on a plan to get him out.
Chapter 32
Huck runs into the family keeping Jim prisoner, and who are expecting a visitor, wihich he pretends to be. He later finds out that the visitor they are expecting is Tom Sawyer.
Chapter 33
Huck is reunited with Tom Sawyer, who thought he was dead.
Chapter 34
Huck and Tom make a plan to free Jim.
Chapter 35
Huck and Tom Sawyer keep working on the perfect plan to save Jim.
Chapter 36
Huck and Tom dig a hole that leads into Jim's cabin.
Chapter 37
Huck and Tom steal things from the house and make Sally and Silas think otherwise.
Chapter 38
Tom tries to teach Jim how to be a perfect prisoner.
Chapter 39
Tom and Huck start sending letter to the familiy, warning them about how someone is going to break Jim out.
Chapter 40
Huck and Tom set Jim free, but Tom gets shot.
Chapter 41
Huck gets a doctor for Tom but then runs into Silas and has to stay home.
Chapter 42
Tom's uncles find out the truth about Huck and Tom. Huck discovers that Jim had been set free by his owner, even before they set him free.
Chapter The Last
Tom gets better, Huck finds out that his dad is dead and is thirsty for more adventures.