Summary Of Huck's Angel Of Death

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.

This is a disturbing account of what Huck went through. Pap brought Huck out into the middle of the woods so no one can find them. He got drunk and basically went nuts. He also tries to attack Huck before he passes out again.

Though not technically an orphan, Huck seems to wish he were, as he provides insight to his indifference towards his father: "Pap hadn't been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn't want to see him no more" (226). Upon returning, Pap inflicts such physical and mental abuse on Huck, including captivating him, that Huck resolves to not only flee the situation, but also kill his father, after being threatened with a knife. "I slipped the ramrod down it to make sure [the gun] was loaded, and then I laid it across the turnip barrel, pointing towards pap, and set down behind it to wait for him to stir" (237). Huck clearly resents the man enough to want to kill him, yet can not do so: though Twain employs weariness as the preventive factor, Huck's inaction despite his desire epitomizes his conflicted nature.

His father yells at him for being able to read and go to school. He dislikes how Huck is trying to be better than he will ever be. Huck is forced to move in with his father in a cabin away from the Widow Douglas and Mrs. Watson. Hucks dad continues to torment him and take money for alcohol. One night Huck’s father is so drunk he almost kills Huck, in defense he holds a gun all night just to be safe. With no other way out, Huck fakes his death by making it look like Pap killed him and runs away without telling anybody. This stop is significant for Huck because it reminds him of what his old life was like. Just as he was starting to like his new life and getting used to being civilized, he had to revert back to his old ways. Finally, this stop showed that Huck was so desperate to get away from his father that the only thing he could think of doing was to fake his own

He visits Judge Thatcher only to find that the money is out of his reach. Furious, these actions of greed turned into actions of violence as Pap kidnaps Huck and brings him to a cabin in the woods. Ingeniously, Huck devised a plan to escape. For days Huck sawed a hole in the cabin wall. When pap left one morning, Huck finished the hole, escaped, and splashed pigs blood on the interior cabin walls to give Pap the impression that he had been murdered.

When Pap returns for Huck, and the matter of custody is brought before the court. Huck is then forced to witness firsthand the corruption of society. Society has a reach on every part of Huck’s life as the judge thatcher rules that Huck belongs to Pap, due to the societal norm that a father should be with his soon putting Huck in the situation to obey an evil and unfit man. One who drinks and later beats his son without any consequence as it is common practice for individuals not interfere with divinity of the family unit. Later, when Huck makes it look as though he has been killed, another moral fault is seen as civilization is more concerned about a dead body than it is in the welfare of living people.

Pap returns to town, when he does he started causing trouble and drinking all over town, he wanted custody over huck which he got and started to abuse huck as soon as he got huck out of sight from the public. “he kept me with him all the time, and never got a chance to run off. we lived in that old cabin, and he always locked the door and put the key under his head, nights”. (twain

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

Huck has had enough with their failed relationship, deciding he can handle such an atrocity, he decides he will run away from his monster of an alcoholic father. Pap will never be able to have a relationship with his father, because he was probably drunk, got into an argument and was shot and killed. Alcoholic parents’ actions often hinder the child’s ability to tell what is right from wrong.

When Pap wakes with a gun pointed at his head, he confronts Huck about how the gun appeared there (40). Away from the safety of society, Huck must fabricate a lie to save his life, even though he must lie to his father. Life or death situations necessitate Huck’s lying. Before escaping from the cabin, Huck fakes his own death with pig blood, axe markings, and other signs (42-44). Huck commits an epic lie when he fakes his own death successfully; he lies to the entire town as well as to his father.

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.

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

Pap has been missing from Huck's life prior to the novels beginning. Only to reappear after he finds out of his sons newly acquired wealth. "You git me that money tomorrow- I want it" (Twain 31). Pap's greed is well known to all who live in town. After Huck faked his own death, a rumor spreads that Pap killed his son in order to get Huck's treasure. Huck's father is the stereotypical alcoholic, always trying to scheme another bottle to get his fix. Whether it is to use his only son or a stranger he shows he is only out for himself and has no conscience but overwhelming

Huck had never been able to go out a certain distance of the little shaft him and his father had lived in. His father would lock him up when he left not letting him have a place to escape. Huck wanted freedom from his father and the little town he once grew up in. He came up with a plan to escape and the plan he made was to make his father think he had been killed for an example, “ I pulled out some of my hair, and blooded the ax good, and stuck it on the back side, and slung the ax in the corner.” (Page 46) He knew that his father would think he was dead leading him to the freedom he had

he learns that everyone believes that he is deceased, which then allows him to escape from Pap, effectively “murdering” Huck’s fatherly figure.