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.