Mark Twain wrote this book in 1884. In the very beginning it has a warning saying, "Persons attempting to find motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot''. I don't really understand this since there are two plots that are filled with motive to do well.
             The two characters that lead this story are Huckleberry Finn, who goes by the name of Huck Finn and Jim, a runaway slave who Huck grew up with. The sub characters are Tom Sawyer, who is the best friend of Huck. Then the widow who took Huck in to civilize him and Ms. Watson, her sister who owns Jim and helps raise Huck. Then there are the King and Duke, who lie and cheat people out of their money moving from town to town.
             The book begins with Huck recapping what happened after his last adventure with Tom Sawyer. He and Tom found $12,000 dollars and split it 50/50. The widow and her sister, Ms. Watson, take in Huck to "sivilize" him. Now Huck lives in a house, sleeps in a bed, goes to school and gets Bible lessons and he isn't so sure he likes it.
             It isn't long before Huck's deadbeat father comes around looking for Huck, but mostly for his money. Huck's father hassles him and hassles him and soon Huck likes school because it makes his father mad. Huck is then kidnapped by his father and isn't let out of the house. He escapes when his father is one day and makes it look like he was murdered, then goes to Jackson Island.
             After a couple of days he discovers Jim is hiding out at Jackson Island, also. Jim has run away because he overheard Ms. Watson say she wanted to sell him. Jim runs away so he can go to free land to buy his wife and children. Huck decides to go with him but isn't sure that helping a runaway slave escape is the righ
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