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In Chapter 8 Huck Spends Three Days Alone On The Island, Eating Berries, Fish, And Smoking. At Night He Counted Ferryboats And Stars On The River. On The Fourth Day While Exploring The Island, Huck Is Happy When He Finds Jim, Who At First Thinks That Huck Is A Ghost. Jim Says That He Overheard Miss Watson Discussing Selling Him For $800 To A Slave Trader Who Would Take Him To New Orleans.

In Chapter 7, Huck Finds A Canoe Floating Downriver And Hides It For His Getaway. Later He Loads It With Food And Supplies. He Kills A Wild Pig And Spreads Its Blood On The Floor And Around The Cabin. He Fills A Sack With Rocks Takes It To The River And Sinks It. Huck Pulls Out Some Of His Hair And Sticks It To The Axe And Throws Into A Corner. Later He Waits For Pap To Land And Then Leaves To Go To Jackson Island.

In Chapter 6 Pap Sues Judge Thatcher For Huck's Money And Threatens Huck Not To Go To School, Which Huck Does In Order To Anger His Pap. Pap Kidnaps Huck And The Two Live In A Shed Down By The River. Huck Begins Sawing His Way Out Of The Cabin. Suffering From Delirium Tremors, Pap Chases Huck With A Knife Before Passing Out. Huck Points A Gun At Pap As He Sleeps.

In Chapter 5 Huck Is Scared Of Pap, Soon He Realizes That Pap Is Just Old, Dirty, Gray Haired, And Has No Color In His face. Huck Tells Pap About The Widow. Then Pap Threatens To Stop The Widow From Messing With Huck's Life. He Says That No Boy Should Be "Put On Airs" Over His Own Father And Act Better Than His Father. He Threatens To Beat Huck If He Goes Back To School. But Instead Pap Gets Drunk And Breaks His Arm.

Huck Is Disappointed That The Band Isn't Made Up Of A-Rabs As Much As Townspeople On A Sunday School Picnic.Tom Says That Huck Would Be Able To See The A-Rabs, If He Had Read Don Quixote. Then He Would See That The Enemy Magicians Had Made The Band Look Like A Sunday School Picnic. He Tells Huck All The Rules About Magicians And Genies And Magic Lamps And Huck Thinks The Whole Thing Is Silly.

In Chapter 2 Huck And Tom Have Just Snuck Off From Ms. Douglas' House. While Leaving Huck Trips And Wakes Up Miss Watson's Slave Jim Who Gets Up To Check What The Noise Was. While Searching He Almost Finds The Boys But He Soon Falls Asleep. After The Leave The House They Go With Some Of Their Friends And Start A Gang.

In Chapter One Huck Has Just Been Adopted By Ms. Douglas Who Has Given Him Clothes And Taught Him About The Bible. After Being Around A New Type Of Living Huck Is Not Comfortable With. So He Leaves The House To Go Hang Out With His Cat Friend Tom.