Huck Finn Chapter 13 Summary

When Tom comes to visit, huck sneaks out and the widow tells him to pray more. Huch really cannot wrap his head around why people want him to pray so much. Pap, his father returns and is mad how Huck is going to school and getting educated. However, there is a court date and Huck's dad gets to keep him as long as he stops drinking. THis unltimately does not work and Huck fears for his life eben sleeing with a gun for protection. Huck decides to leave after he gets the idea after seeing araft. He sails away and land on an island where Slave Jim is located. He and Jim decide to help each other, but does get bitten by a smake in the process. AS they are on the island Huck decides to dress as a girl to see what the townspeople are saying and getting something for the snake bite. Jim tells Huck the raft is broken and how they re so close to a free state. HUck starts thinking about the big crime he is committed with helping a slave escape. He however lies because Jim is his friend. Huck soon finds himself surrounded by dogs.The dogs are called off and Huck goes to the house while Jim fixes the raft. They sail off and with the two con men con people out of money. Huck feels very guilty about fooling these townspeople. Furthermore, the toenspeople truly believe the con men are believed and the real people are thought to be fakes. They sail away but

The primary relationships of Huck with the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson as well as Huck with Pap and Huck with Jim are established. Throughout the novel, Huck takes on different identities to further his attempts at freedom. In this section three of these identities are seen. One is Huck, the dead boy when he “kills” himself in order to cover his escape from Pap at his cabin and the other is Sarah Mary Williams whom he disguised himself as when he attempted to get information and later George Peters emerges when Sarah is discovered to be a boy.

He then ends up in the Grangerfords household, they ask him abounch of questions seeing if he is a Shepherdson. The grangerfords realize that he is not a Sheperson and welcome him into their home. Huck befriends the Grangerfords son named Buck, he tells Huck that they have had a fued with the Shephersons for a long time. One day a battle broke out between the two families because a grangerford daughter and Shperhson son ran away together. Mr Grangerford and his two brothers were gunned down, and buck and his brother were being shot at. Huck watches buck and a boy be ambushed by shepherdsons on top of a tree. Huck is emotionally hurt by bucks death, They were becoming really good friends and he had to watch him be killed. Additionally, this event is significant because Huck sees how the Grangerfords treated him so well and they didn’t deserve the death that came to them. When Huck see Bucks body in the river he has to cover it up because it is the least he could do for him after all buck did for him. At this oint I believe Huck thinks their journey cant get much worse than it already is, he has witnessed death and disappointment too

Huck can’t bear to see this sight, so he goes to comfort her. She tells him that she didn’t want the slave's family to be separated, this occurrence had spoiled her moving to England. Huck blurts out that they will be seeing each other again, Mary jane wants him to explain. He realizes that he told too much information to Mary Jane, so he thinks it over. His decision is to tell Mary Jane the entire truth. So he did.

The woman invited Huck inside, and he tells her his name is Sarah Williams. Huck tells her that he will stay there to rest for a while, but then be on his way once again. They discuss a few topics, but eventually start talking about Huck’s murder. The woman says that it was thought to be Pap that killed Huck, but then others thought it was Jim since he had run away. She said that people are out looking for Jim, and they think that he is on Jackson’s Island. Her husband would be going out there to look after he comes home. Huck starts to panic after hearing this, and starts to ask questions.

He noticed that his slave was following him. His slave asked him to follow him into the swamp. Huck was curious and skeptical, but followed his slave anyway. He looked into a clearing that his slave showed him, it was covered in vines, and a man was sleeping in the center. He realized it was his old friend Jim! He quickly woke him up. Jim told Huck that he was came across a house, and waited by it, he knew that Huck was inside. He met with the other slaves, and tried to get them to bring Huck sooner. Jim told Huck that he found their old raft, this surprised Huck, but he was delighted. Huck and Jim talked a little more, then Huck went back

“When Huck plans to head west... he is trying to avoid more than regular baths and mandatory school attendance” (Sparknotes 1). This quote summarizes the whole purpose of Huckleberry Finn’s journey throughout the novel, because even though he is only a young boy and his only concerns should be school and bathing, he has to worry about much more “adult” topics, such as helping an escaped slave and dealing with his abusive, alcoholic father. However, throughout these endeavors, he struggles with his conscience and the ideas that have been placed upon him by the people around him, while also trying to maintain his good heart. Examples of this ongoing battle in Huck’s mind include whether or not slavery is acceptable, the stark difference between the 2 gods that Miss Watson and the Widow argue about, and the seemingly pointless feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons. One may think that these thoughts would take over Huck’s personality and make him into a more hateful, prejudiced, person, but Huck remains good hearted and true to himself until the end of the book, showing that he truly does have “a deformed conscience but a good heart.”

In the beginning of the book huck acts very childish kid who is uncivilized and has no morals. Huck had a very abusive father that was always drunk when huck was younger. Because of this a widow by the name of miss Watson gains cutody of huck. Miss Watson unlike huck is a very sivilized women with high morals. Huck then is kidnapped by his pap because huck had found a lot of gold. Huck then is able to escape and runs into one of miss watsons slaves witch is run away. His name is jim and he helps huck become a mature person through there experiences together.

Following Huck’s escape from his father’s cabin, Huck escapes with Jim, rafting the Mississippi while he becomes his older self who helps others, a sharp contrast to the kidnapped Huck who only aided himself. When Huck encounters Judith Loftus, he lies, telling her that he is a girl by the name of Sarah Mary Williams, and later that he is a runaway apprentice called George Peters (69). Huck continues lying for himself, reflecting the depth of Huck’s descent while with his father; however, the lie also helps Jim, so Huck displays a tiny amount of selflessness. Farther down the river, Huck lies to several men and tells them that Jim is a white man who has smallpox (101). By this point in the story, Huck begins lying to help others such as Jim, not just himself. He slowly loses the overwhelming desire to protect only himself that he developed while with his father. Huck

The next morning Pap finds Huck with the gun and remembers nothing about the previous night. When Pap questions him about the gun, Huck says that he has been lying in wait because he thought someone was trying to get in the cabin. Asked why he did not try to wake him, Huck replies that he did try, but could not rouse him.Huck is asked by his father to go out and check if there are any fish on the line. This gives Huck the opportunity to look for a raft or logs floating by in the river. To his good fortune, he sees a canoe floating down the river. He swims to it, brings it ashore, and hides it to help in his escape. When he returns to the cabin and is scolded by his father for being lazy, Huck tells him that he accidentally fell into the river.

The next major moment in Huck’s education from Jim is when they think they have found Cairo. Huck has just sworn to himself that when reaches land he will tell someone about Jim and get him sent back to be a slave. He reasons this is the “right” thing to do because The Widow and Miss Watson “hadn’t done anything wrong” to have deserved having their slave taken from them. Here we see Huck trying to use the morality he learned from The Widow, however, fails to realize it is tainted with religion and racism. As Huck is canoeing to shore Jim shouts from the raft, “Pooty soon I’ll be a-shout’n’ for joy, en I’ll say it’s all on accounts o ‘Huck; I’s a free man, en I couldn’t ever ben free ef it hadn’ ben for Huck; Huck done it. Jim won’t ever forgot you, Huck; you’s de bes’ fren’ Jim’s ever had; en you de only fren’ ole Jim’s got now.” (Twain 114).

This passage about Huck, supports my simile of a sea saw from this reading experience, because of when Huck decides to rat Jim out. There are other factors taking place that has affected the society. It was not easy going against all you knew, the hardship of going against what you have been taught and the belief of your friends and family. In this situation Huck is tipping the seater saw , elevating himself and Jim closer, and closer to the ground. This portion was all about Huck, little to nothing about what Jim wants and needs. Here in this section it shows just how selfish someone can be and how it can cause an effect. Huck, here thinks he is the know it all, the boss.

Huck didn’t return to widow Douglas house since he joined tom sawyers gang of bandits

Huck states to Judge Thatcher "Please take it, and don't ask me nothing—then I won't have to tell no lies” (16). That quote is said by Huck to Judge Thatcher when Huck finds his pap is in town and pap will try to take his money. The Maturation of Huckleberry Finn is important because its about Huck making the right decisions to help him and Jim to freedom. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, begins with Huck introducing himself. He is wild and carefree, playing jokes on people and believing them all to be hilarious. When his adventures grow to require more maturity than ever, there is a drastic change in his opinions, thoughts, and his views of "right and wrong". By the time the book

The woman lets Huck into the shack but eyes him suspiciously. Huck introduces himself as “Sarah Williams” from Hookerville. The woman chatters about a variety of subjects and eventually gets to the topic of Huck’s murder. She reveals that Pap was a suspect and that some townspeople nearly lynched him. Then, people began to suspect Jim because he ran away the same day Huck was killed. Soon, however, suspicions again turned against Pap, after he squandered on alcohol the money that the judge gave him to find Jim. Pap left town before he could be lynched, and now there is a $200 reward being offered for him. Meanwhile, there is a $300 bounty out for Jim. The woman has noticed smoke over Jackson’s Island and has told her husband to look for Jim there. He plans to go there tonight with another man and a gun. The woman looks at Huck suspiciously and asks his name. He replies, “Mary Williams.” When the woman asks about the change, he tries to cover himself by saying his full name is “Sarah Mary Williams.” She has him try to kill a rat by throwing a lump of lead at it, and he nearly hits the rat, increasing her suspicions. Finally, she asks him to reveal his real male identity, saying she understands that he is a runaway apprentice and claiming she will not turn him in to the authorities. Huck says his name is