Huckleberry Finn - Summary for chapters 1-10. :: English Literature

Huckleberry Finn - Summary for chapters 1-10. The book has just begun, but so far you have been introduced to quite a few characters. The most important being Huckleberry Finn of course. Huckleberry Finn now lives with the Widow, she took him in after he and Tom Sawyer found $6,000 a piece, to civilize him. Huckleberry prefers to be in rags though, and live outdoors. Huckleberry and everyone else where he lives are all very superstitious, they are also racist and have slaves so you know that it is set in a past time. Tom and Huckleberry made a gang with a few other boys from around the town. They were a gang of robbers and murders, although they never really did either. Huckleberrys' father was presumed dead, although Huckleberry knew that he wasn't dead at all. When Huckleberry's father Pap, came back to town and hears that Huckleberry is now rich, Huckleberry knows that his father will be coming for him soon, so Huckleberry gives the money to the man who was investing it all for him. Pap sure enough came for him though, and at first he took it to the courts to get Huckleberry back, and he did. Pap took Huckleberry out to the woods to a small wooden cabin, and at first Tom hated it, but after he began to get used to it, and didn't mind it so much after, he actually really liked it because he was back outside where he liked to be. He just didn't like to be out there with his father. One day when Pap went to town and locked Huckleberry in the cabin as he always did when he left, Huckleberry sawed his way out. Huckleberry stole all of the food and water, and the gun, and he killed a wild pig and put it's blood everywhere and he ripped out his own hair so it would appear that he was murdered. Huckleberry jumped in the canoe that he had hidden from his father in the trees, and started off down the river. He landed on a little island and hid his canoe again. There were lots of people looking for Huckleberry and he watched them as they searched from boats. They all looked very upset, because they all assumed him murdered. When Huckleberry was out exploring he saw Miss. Watson's slave Jim. He had left because Miss. Watson was going to sell him. Huckleberry was happy to have the company and so was Jim. They began to live together and stayed together all the time.