IMPORTANT QUOTES
"So then I judged that all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer's lies." - Huck Finn
(Tom Sawyer is always making up games and lies with his immaturity, imagination, and obsession with stories.)
"I rose up and there was Jackson's Island, about two mile and a half down stream..."- Huck Finn
(This marks the fact that Huck successfully made his escape from Pap, and is on his own.)
"Pretty soon he gapped, and stretched himself , and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim!"- Huck Finn
(Huck Finn realized that Miss Watson's slave, Jim, has also ran away.)
"I hadn't seen a house out in the country before that was so nice and had so much style."- Huck Finn
(Mark Twain satires the Romantics style.)
"I cried a little when I was covering up Buck's face, for he was mighty good to me."- Huck Finn
(Huck is beginning to become more mature and compassionate.)
"You feel mighty free and easy comfortable on a raft"- Huck Finn
(On the raft, Huck and Jim were able to be free and they did not have to worry about hiding from anybody.)
"All kings is mostly rapscallions as fur as I can make out"- Huck Finn
(He believes that all kings are up to know good.)
"...These liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all but low down, humbags and frauds."- Huck Finn
(Huck knows the "duke and the dauphin" are just frauds.)
"Some day I'll lie down in it and forget it al and my poor broken heart will be at rest."- Jim
(Jim felt bad for hurting his daughter.)
"A mob; they don't fight with the courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers"- Sherbun
(What a mob truly is.)
"Sick Arab- but harmless when not out of his head"
(Jim's degrading desguise that the duke and the dauphin gave him as they went to scam towns.)
"It was enough to make the body ashamed of the human race."- Huck Finn
(Huck was starting to mature at this point, realizing the true wrong-doing of the frauds.)
"...Jim was gone!...Then i set down and cried." - Huck Finn
(The duke and the dauphin sold Jim.)
"All right then, I'll go to hell."- Huck Finn
(Huck contemplates whether he wants to continue helping Jim because it was considered a sin to help an escaped slave back then. Then Huck remembers how kind and good Jim was to him, so he does not care whether or not helping him is wrong, he does it anyway.)
"Jim's got to do his inscription and coat of arms. They all do."- Tom Sawyer
(Tom is very adventorous and always had to do everything elaborate and by the book, whereas Huck always wanted to do everything the simplest way. That is why they are "foiled" characters.)
"Old Miss Watson died two months ago...she set him (Jim) free in her will."- Tom Sawyer
(Jim was actually free the entire time and Tom knew about it.)
MAIN EVENTS
"So then I judged that all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer's lies." - Huck Finn
(Tom Sawyer is always making up games and lies with his immaturity, imagination, and obsession with stories.)
"I rose up and there was Jackson's Island, about two mile and a half down stream..."- Huck Finn
(This marks the fact that Huck successfully made his escape from Pap, and is on his own.)
"Pretty soon he gapped, and stretched himself , and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim!"- Huck Finn
(Huck Finn realized that Miss Watson's slave, Jim, has also ran away.)
"I hadn't seen a house out in the country before that was so nice and had so much style."- Huck Finn
(Mark Twain satires the Romantics style.)
"I cried a little when I was covering up Buck's face, for he was mighty good to me."- Huck Finn
(Huck is beginning to become more mature and compassionate.)
"You feel mighty free and easy comfortable on a raft"- Huck Finn
(On the raft, Huck and Jim were able to be free and they did not have to worry about hiding from anybody.)
"All kings is mostly rapscallions as fur as I can make out"- Huck Finn
(He believes that all kings are up to know good.)
"...These liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all but low down, humbags and frauds."- Huck Finn
(Huck knows the "duke and the dauphin" are just frauds.)
"Some day I'll lie down in it and forget it al and my poor broken heart will be at rest."- Jim
(Jim felt bad for hurting his daughter.)
"A mob; they don't fight with the courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers"- Sherbun
(What a mob truly is.)
"Sick Arab- but harmless when not out of his head"
(Jim's degrading desguise that the duke and the dauphin gave him as they went to scam towns.)
"It was enough to make the body ashamed of the human race."- Huck Finn
(Huck was starting to mature at this point, realizing the true wrong-doing of the frauds.)
"...Jim was gone!...Then i set down and cried." - Huck Finn
(The duke and the dauphin sold Jim.)
"All right then, I'll go to hell."- Huck Finn
(Huck contemplates whether he wants to continue helping Jim because it was considered a sin to help an escaped slave back then. Then Huck remembers how kind and good Jim was to him, so he does not care whether or not helping him is wrong, he does it anyway.)
"Jim's got to do his inscription and coat of arms. They all do."- Tom Sawyer
(Tom is very adventorous and always had to do everything elaborate and by the book, whereas Huck always wanted to do everything the simplest way. That is why they are "foiled" characters.)
"Old Miss Watson died two months ago...she set him (Jim) free in her will."- Tom Sawyer
(Jim was actually free the entire time and Tom knew about it.)
MAIN EVENTS
- Pap kidnaps Huck and takes him to live in the woods.
- Huck fakes his own death and escapes from Pap.
- Huck is on Jackson's Island and sees Miss Watson's slave, Jim.
- Huck learns that there are people out to look for Jim on Jackson's Island, so Huck and Jim quickly leave.
- During a foggy night on the river, Huck and Jim miss where they were supposed to stop.
- After getting seperated, Huck stays with the Grangerfords for a few days, where he witnesses family rivalry and a death of his new found friend, Buck.
- Huck and Jim come across two men, the "Duke and the Dauphin", who Huck quickly realizes are con-artists.
- During a scam on the Wilks family, Huck begins to mature, ending up helping the family that was being scammed.
- Huck hears that Jim has been taken and sold, but he begins to question whether or not he should be helping a slave escape (Jim), but he soon decides that he is gonna help his friend, even if he "goes to hell".
- After finding where Jim has been taken, he pretends to be Tom Sawyer, and Tom Sawyer pretends to be Sid.
- After creating an eloborate plan, Tom and Huck free Jim, only to hear Tom say that Jim was free all along.
- Huck and Tom decide to stay and live with Uncle Silas and Aunt Sally.