The story begins when Huckleberry finds the money stashed away from Mark Twain’s previous book in the series. Huck is adopted by Widow Douglas who lives with her sister, Miss Watson. Huck is reluctant to live under Widow Douglas rules of being clean, going to church, and going to school but Tom tells Huck if he wanted to be in his “gang” that Huck had to be respectable. Soon, Huck’s father, Pap, appears and asks for Huck’s money and wants custody of him. Since Pap is the legal father of Huck, he gains custody of Huck and he tries to stop drinking.

Pap would beat Huck when he came home to the small cabin drunk. Huck disliked these beatings, and fears worse beatings to come so he fakes his own death. Huck then ran away from the cabin to get away from his father. Huck soon finds Jim, a slave of Miss Watson, as he was escaping for his freedom as well, because Jim had heard that he was going to be sold to a plantation that treated its slaves poorly. These two travel down the Mississippi south-bound in search of new lives. A flood occurs and Huck and Jim see and uprooted house and raft. They both loot the house and find a dead body that has been shot; Jim refuses to show the face of the body to Huck because it was Pap.

Pap, however, gives into the temptation of drinking once again and goes back to his old ways.

Huck soon finds the nice southern family of the Grangerfords. The family is involved with a gun fight with another family and both families are killed as Huck escapes the battle to find Jim with a repaired raft. Jim and Huck meet up with two con-artists, the Duke and the Dauphin, that claim to be royalty of England and France. The Duke and the Dauphin join up with Huck and Jim; Huck did not have it in him to tell the two adults to leave. The Duke and the Dauphin try to scam the Wilks family as Peter Wilks dies. They said that they were brothers of Peter and so they scammed some money from the family. Huck steals the money from the Duke and the Dauphin and hides it in Peter Wilks’s coffin. The townspeople learn of the scam and the Duke and the Dauphin barely escape a

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