Caught up between ethics and legality, Huck must make a decision. Huck must decide whether to trust his gut feeling and help an innocent flee slavery, or view the poor man simply as property. After faking his own death and on the run, he meets Jim who is a runaway slave with a bounty to his name. Just when things are improving for Huck, he is kidnapped and mistreated by his no-good father. Hucks refusal to do so only infuriates Pap. However, just as things begin to stabilize, Pap returns to the picture and demands Huck give him the money that he had previously attained during an adventure with his best friend Tom Sawyer. The book opens with a description of Hucks new life as he undergoes a process of civilization while living with the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson.Īlthough he dislikes the strict regime of education, manners, church and rigid clothing, which are a necessity to fit into society, Huck prefers anything to his previous life with his drunkard father Pap. The plot unfolds in several locations sometime before the Civil War. The novel serves as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, another famous work by Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picturesque novel depicting Hucks epic journey from boyhood to manhood and the struggles he must face living in a corrupt society. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Audio Bookīy: Mark Twain Regarded as the pride and joy of American literature,
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