Plot- Huck Finn was a wild boy that lived with his aunt and didn't like it. He would always complain that she was trying to civilize him. He lived with her because his dad had been gone for a year and he abused Huck. His dad came back though and took him to a secluded cabin in the woods. Huck fakes his death and goes to Jackson Island where he meets up with Mrs. Watsons slave, Jim.
Huck and Jim stay in a cave for a few days. They find a washed out house that has Hucks dead dad in it and some things of value in it. Huck dresses up as a girl and goes into town to get some information about Jim and himself. They take off that night and the raft breaks. Huck lives with a family for a few days then leaves. He meets back up with Jim and they help out two men that claim to be royalty. One says that he is a duke and the other says he is a king. They help them out because they are con men.
They come to one town and claim to be the brothers of a man that has died and has a big fortune waiting to be inherited. They each get three thousand dollars and some land. They hide it in a bed but Huck sees them and feels sorry for the family so he takes it and sticks it in a coffin. The next
Hyperbole- A good example of a hyperbole is when Tom Sawyer says that there is " a whole parcel of Spanish merchants and rich a-rabs was going to camp in a cave hollow with two hundred elephants, and six hundred camel." This line exaggerates what is really there which is nothing.
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