![]() ![]() He peeks out and sees his family and friends floating by on a ferry-boat shooting off a cannon in the hopes of raising his dead body to the surface of the water. In chapter eight Huck rouses to the sound of a cannon going off. Huck arrives at the island and ties up the canoe before taking a nap. Luckily, it was so dark that Pap didn't see him. On the way, he falls asleep and then wakes up to find Pap drifting past him on their raft in the other direction. Once in the canoe, he floats down the river toward Jackson's Island. ![]() After tearing a hole in the bag of cornmeal, he leaves a trail leading into the woods then seals it up and puts it in the canoe. He also smears some blood on the axe that he used to smash in the door of the cabin and put in the corner. He kills a wild pig wandering by and smears its blood from the cabin into the woods. When Pap leaves again the next night, Huck takes a bunch of their food supplies and drags them into the canoe. He takes it and hides it then comes up with a plan for escaping in such a way that no one will come looking for him. When Pap leaves for supplies, Huck sneaks out and happens to find a canoe drifting by. Huck avoids him until his dad eventually passes out at which point Huck grabs their shotgun and keeps it pointed at his father in case he wakes up wanting to hurt him again.Īt the start of chapter seven Pap awakes to see Huck pointing the gun at him, so Huck has to lie and say that someone had attempted to break in to their cabin. He eventually starts hallucinating and chasing Huck around the cabin with a knife. One night Pap gets really drunk and starts ranting about how the government is giving too many rights to blacks and mulattos. He finds a rusty wood-saw and cuts out a small section of the log cabin wall that he covers with a blanket when his father is around. Huck enjoys the lazy, carefree life, but dislikes being hit by his father, so he eventually decides he needs to escape. He beats him periodically and locks him in whenever he leaves for supplies. Pap treats Huck like a prisoner while they live there. The judge gives up on reforming Pap.Ĭhapter six has Pap away from civilization to a cabin on the Illinois shore, which leads the reader to believe that Huck must have originally resided in Missouri, and they travel on the Mississippi River. This new judge decides to take Pap home with him to help him straighten out, but Pap ends up robbing the judge, becoming extremely drunk, and breaking his arm. Then he decides to try to get guardianship of Huck back, so he goes before the court who agrees to give Huck back to his father because the courts didn't like to take children away from their parents in those days. Pap insists that Huck get him the money and stop attending school. Huck claims he gave it to Judge Thatcher, but his dad doesn't believe him. His dad is also very interested in obtaining Huck's money, which people throughout the county have been talking about. His father is angry that he's been attending school because he doesn't want to have a son who knows more than he does. In chapter five Huck talks to his Pap, who is around fifty years old and looks homeless. ![]()
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