Summary of 15-18 Huck Finn

In chapters 15 to 18 Jim and Huck are floating downriver, Jim searches the riverbank for the town of Cairo. Each time Jim mentions how soon he will be free, Huck feels even more guilty. Huck knows that helping Jim escape is breaking the law, but Jim is also his friend. Huck is having trouble deciding whether or not to help him. After a great deal of thinking and compromising, Huck realizes he will feel possibly even more guilty if he turned Jim into the authorities, and decides it would be best to just allow him escape. They float past the town of Cairo and keep heading south on the river. Then, their raft is rammed by a steamboat and Jim and Huck are seperated.

Summary of 8-12 Huck Finn

In chapters 8-12 Huck and Jim find a sinking ferry boat going down the river that has robbers on it. Huck tells Jim that they need to hunt up there boat and set there boat drifting down the river so the Sheriff can get them. The plan is to go to the ferry boat and steal there smaller boat so that they cannot get off of it. Then Huck goes to a ferryboat captain and tells him to take his boat up there and help the poeple on the ferry out but he lies and tells them that his pap and mam, and sis, and Miss Hooker is on the boat and they are in an awful peck of trouble. The name of the boat is the Walter Scott.

Summary of 4-7 Huck Finn

In chapters 4-7 Hucks father finds him and kidnaps him he takes him out into the woods. He takes him into this old cabin built in a spot where no one could find them unless they knew where it was. Hucks father treats him very baddly and one night he gets to dreaming and attempts to kill Huck. He is always left locked in the cabin so he gets to thinking that behind the blanket on the wall he could use the saw that he found to cut a hole big enough for him to get out. When he finally gets out he makes it look like someone broke in, robbed the place and killed huck. He makes it look this way by killing a wild hog and spreading the blood all over the cabin.

Summary of 1-4 Huck Finn

In chapters 1-4 the story starts out with huck living with the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson. Widow Douglas is his legal guardian and Miss Watson comes to visit. The two ladies were trying to turn huck into a civilalized little boy but huck didnt want any parof that. This didnt last to long because huck would always disagree with them because he was basically used to living on his own. His father found out where he was at and he kidnapped him.