Huckleberry Finn chapters 1-5
1. Time line
Chpt 1.
Chpt 1.
- Huck lives with the Widow Douglas
- Huck runs away and Tom brings him back
- Huck talks about how the money in the cave made them rich
- Runs off with Tom
- Tom creates the Tom Sawyer Gang
- All of them sign a blood oath
- Everybody has a (sacrifice) to give if they tell the people of the gangs secrets.
- They will be robbers, they will steal people for ransom, especially the women. Tom believes they will be easy to get and they will “ fall in love with them while they’re in there.
- Miss watson tries to teach finn Prayer
- Finn has a really rough time with prayer and knowing how to do it
- Finn hears rumors about his father and him coming back.
- Finn starts school and is progressing well
- Finn finds footprints in his yard that have 2 nails crossed the worn off the devil
- Huck sells his money to the judge
- Huck goes to jim and gets a hairball from and oxes stomach
- Gives the hairball a counterfit quarter
- Talks about 2 angles one bad one good
- Pap is waiting for huck in his bedroom
- Huck's father comes back, he’s an alcoholic, and beats Huck.
- His father doesn’t want Huck to learn or go to school. He doesn’t want Huck to have more knowledge than himself.
- He stops Huck from going to school and tears up one of his school books.
- The father wants money and takes hucks to go get drunk in town. Huck also gave away his money to the judge, to stop his father from doing what he’s been doing.
- New judge in town doesn’t separate them
- Judge takes the father in and gives him a new jacket and bed, he sells the jacket for liquor.
2. describe the time period in the novel
Huckleberry Finn was based on 1830-1840. slavery ended in 1863, so i know its before that. slavery started in 1619 so it was after that. In that time period the N word was not offensive and meant there skin color, that helps me find out the time period because i know it inst that new. He is using a certain accent that is used in taxes it sounds like. |
3. How does the perspective/point of view of the narrator influence the story?
in the beginning of the book huckleberry Finn was 13 years old. sense he is 13 years old the truth may have been changed and or been a lie. huckleberry is the narrator of the story so he had lots of power over what was being told in the book. if something had been said about him from any of the other characters he could change what he said, and not tell the truth. he could also make himself look like the hero, but what actual happened was something total different. |
Huckleberry Finn chapters 5-11
1. Explain why Pap has Huck locked up.
Pap told huck to not go to school anymore because it made him look bad. He was out with the widdows one night and was drink and said ill show him whos boss and found him and brought him to his cabin. Pap would lock him up while he was gone.
2. Create a visual of how Huck escapes The Shanty.
Pap told huck to not go to school anymore because it made him look bad. He was out with the widdows one night and was drink and said ill show him whos boss and found him and brought him to his cabin. Pap would lock him up while he was gone.
2. Create a visual of how Huck escapes The Shanty.
3. Abolitionist's were people who didn't support slavery. He lived in Ohio right before the Civil War so he didn't want people to think that he supported the North's cause.
4. There would be many things that would give him away
4. There would be many things that would give him away
- Voice
- Face feautures
- Body type
- personality
Huckleberry Finn chapters 12-16
1. He had two women claiming the baby boy, he needed to figure out which one was the true mother. So he sent for a sword and said that the baby would be cut in two.
2. When they were separated from each other and Huck made it feel like a dream, in the dream his reactions show us that he cares about the boy.
3. Jim is very superstitious because as a slave he is uneducated and the way he describes things is with his superstitions.
4. Huck is afraid to be seen as a abolitionist because where he comes from talking to slave makes you a abolitionist.
5. Huck wants to help Jim escape but doesn't want to be the reason for letting a slave free, because of his fear of becoming a abolitionist. Huck has a hard decision to make because he likes Jim's company, and doesn't want to lose jim. The men on the raft asked huck if that was his raft and he said yes. He told the men that his family was sick and needed help docking. The men asked him what his father had and he replied just a fever.
2. When they were separated from each other and Huck made it feel like a dream, in the dream his reactions show us that he cares about the boy.
3. Jim is very superstitious because as a slave he is uneducated and the way he describes things is with his superstitions.
4. Huck is afraid to be seen as a abolitionist because where he comes from talking to slave makes you a abolitionist.
5. Huck wants to help Jim escape but doesn't want to be the reason for letting a slave free, because of his fear of becoming a abolitionist. Huck has a hard decision to make because he likes Jim's company, and doesn't want to lose jim. The men on the raft asked huck if that was his raft and he said yes. He told the men that his family was sick and needed help docking. The men asked him what his father had and he replied just a fever.
Huckleberry Finn chapters 17-21
1. The grangerfords family had an odd suspicion that Huck is a member of a family called the Shepherdsons. Eventually, Huck’s hosts decide that he is not a Shepherdson (the rival neighbor). Huck introduces himself as George Jackson. the grangerford family has a rivalry with the shepherdson family they said that in the past year too people have died.
2. They both want to be the top family in the county. The Church is one of the only places where they do not fight and they can just go to church. In Romeo and Juliet there are too people that love each other but they can not show it because their family's are rivals, this is just like Sophia and Harvey because they are in love but they can not show it because their family's are rivals. The author put this into the story to show how this time was like and how people had to do what they were told.
3. In the war Hucks best friend gets shot and Huck gets traumatized. Huck didn't want to leave the Grangerfords because he cared about them because they took him in. He didn't want to talk about the war at first because he probably didn't want to talk about it because he didn't want to remember.
4.The king and duke are too con men that Huck meet on one of Hucks solo expeditions. Huck was on his raft and found the King and Duke begging for a ride because they were in a tricky situation. Duke was described as a seventy year old man that was white, the King was not as descriptive just that he was around thirty.
5. they're idea was to act like they have captured jim. This cover up is a good idea except other people might fight them for jim because they might want the reward for him. Another would be how they would contain him because they probably don't have handcuffs laying around. One of my last reason would be, that people will think that they will be hurting jim because he is a escaped slave which i don't think Huck would harm jim.
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2. They both want to be the top family in the county. The Church is one of the only places where they do not fight and they can just go to church. In Romeo and Juliet there are too people that love each other but they can not show it because their family's are rivals, this is just like Sophia and Harvey because they are in love but they can not show it because their family's are rivals. The author put this into the story to show how this time was like and how people had to do what they were told.
3. In the war Hucks best friend gets shot and Huck gets traumatized. Huck didn't want to leave the Grangerfords because he cared about them because they took him in. He didn't want to talk about the war at first because he probably didn't want to talk about it because he didn't want to remember.
4.The king and duke are too con men that Huck meet on one of Hucks solo expeditions. Huck was on his raft and found the King and Duke begging for a ride because they were in a tricky situation. Duke was described as a seventy year old man that was white, the King was not as descriptive just that he was around thirty.
5. they're idea was to act like they have captured jim. This cover up is a good idea except other people might fight them for jim because they might want the reward for him. Another would be how they would contain him because they probably don't have handcuffs laying around. One of my last reason would be, that people will think that they will be hurting jim because he is a escaped slave which i don't think Huck would harm jim.
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Huckleberry Finn chapters 22-26
1. the reason Handbill says " Ladies and children not admitted" is because then the men can have more freedom then if there wife's and children came in the play. this will help people get in because the men don't have to worry about their wife's or kids.
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A. Finn doesn't want to tell Jim about the king and duke about how they are not actual kings and dukes because he didn't want to get in an argument with Jim so then Jim wouldn't be so specious while traveling in a group.
B. he meant this because the king and the duke are very good actors and con men so they can persuade anyone to believe in them, i mean people believe that they are actually actors in a professional play.
3.when the king and the duke had heard that a man named Peter Wilks had passed and left a amount of money for his two brothers. So the king and the duke made a plan, one of the brothers was 30-35 the other was deaf and dumb, so the duke and the king were gonna be their servants and Huck and Jim will be their servants. Huck felt bad about this plan because they were gonna sell the land and make money from it, and he knew it wasn't the right thing.
4. the doctor knew right from the beginning because of his accent. the doctor knew that they were not related to peter, the King and the Duke came up with fake facts, they didn't know anything about peter.
5. most of them wanted to leave with the 6,000 in gold but the king thought it would be a good idea to wait until the slaves and land is sold so that they can get more money
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A. Finn doesn't want to tell Jim about the king and duke about how they are not actual kings and dukes because he didn't want to get in an argument with Jim so then Jim wouldn't be so specious while traveling in a group.
B. he meant this because the king and the duke are very good actors and con men so they can persuade anyone to believe in them, i mean people believe that they are actually actors in a professional play.
3.when the king and the duke had heard that a man named Peter Wilks had passed and left a amount of money for his two brothers. So the king and the duke made a plan, one of the brothers was 30-35 the other was deaf and dumb, so the duke and the king were gonna be their servants and Huck and Jim will be their servants. Huck felt bad about this plan because they were gonna sell the land and make money from it, and he knew it wasn't the right thing.
4. the doctor knew right from the beginning because of his accent. the doctor knew that they were not related to peter, the King and the Duke came up with fake facts, they didn't know anything about peter.
5. most of them wanted to leave with the 6,000 in gold but the king thought it would be a good idea to wait until the slaves and land is sold so that they can get more money
Huckleberry Finn chapters 27-30
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They did not want the body to get bad, so like no insects or animals would eat it. once the person has died they would have to burry the body the next day. back in the day they did not have anyway of preserving the corpse, so they would have to watch over it. another reason would is to make she he doesn't wake up and is actually died. they also had to perform blessings on the spirit to make their journey easier.
2.
Huck wants people to believe that he doesn't car about anyone and that he is a brave outgoing human, but he is actually a caring person and Huck wants to help others and cares about their feelings. The reason he told her that her family will be together again was because he wanted Mary Jane to feel comfort and he wants her to know that everything will be ok.
3.
They used many ways to try to figure out if they were real or frauds. One of the methods they used was having them sign a paper and compares their signatures with the ones that were on the letter, this showed that duke and the king weren't actually the brothers.
but the king gets out of it by saying that the real William serves as a scribe to Harvey, and since William has a broken arm they have no way of proving it. The real brother (Harvey) says that he recalls his brother having a tattoo on his brothers chest, the king says that he did remember seeing a tattoo on his chest. The lawyer asks the undertaker if he had seen the tattoo, he says that he has not seen it.
then they go and dig up the body of Wr. Wilks and takes the bag of money.
They did not want the body to get bad, so like no insects or animals would eat it. once the person has died they would have to burry the body the next day. back in the day they did not have anyway of preserving the corpse, so they would have to watch over it. another reason would is to make she he doesn't wake up and is actually died. they also had to perform blessings on the spirit to make their journey easier.
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Huck wants people to believe that he doesn't car about anyone and that he is a brave outgoing human, but he is actually a caring person and Huck wants to help others and cares about their feelings. The reason he told her that her family will be together again was because he wanted Mary Jane to feel comfort and he wants her to know that everything will be ok.
3.
They used many ways to try to figure out if they were real or frauds. One of the methods they used was having them sign a paper and compares their signatures with the ones that were on the letter, this showed that duke and the king weren't actually the brothers.
but the king gets out of it by saying that the real William serves as a scribe to Harvey, and since William has a broken arm they have no way of proving it. The real brother (Harvey) says that he recalls his brother having a tattoo on his brothers chest, the king says that he did remember seeing a tattoo on his chest. The lawyer asks the undertaker if he had seen the tattoo, he says that he has not seen it.
then they go and dig up the body of Wr. Wilks and takes the bag of money.
Huckleberry Finn chapters 31-35
1. Huck says “You can’t pray a lie.” What lie is he trying to pray about? What does he mean? (Chapter 31)
He was trying to make himself feel better by praying about a lie about stealing away Jim form Mrs.Watson. Huck was stressed because the flyer for Jim's capture was still out there so people still were looking for him. Huck was debating about writing a letter to Mrs.Watson but he decided not to after realizing then he would get caught for freeing a slave. While he was praying he said that he wasn't gonna do any more bad things
2. Why does Huck tear up the letter he writes? (Chapter 31)
Huck was going to write to Tom Sawyer and to tell Miss Watson where Jim was, he was going to but then remembered his kind heart and all that they have been through so he decided to seal him back instead of Mrs. Watson sell him. So he tears the letter up and decides to do it himself.
3. Huck is disappointed that Tom would help him steal Jim. He says “Tom Sawyer fell, considerable, in my estimation. Only I couldn’t believe it. Tom Sawyer a nigger stealer!” What do you think of this? (Chapter 33)
Huck probably wanted him to say no so that he could make up his mind. Huck was probably hoping that he would so no so that he could make up an excuse to not do any more bad. He was deciding whether or not he should help Jim, he probaly wanted to see another opion and see what they would think.
4. Huck says two things at the end of chapter 33:
a.“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
That we treat each other horribly because of things we do to try and earn money, but then when we do it, we get mad when they treat us the same way. ( What goes around comes around.)
b.“But that’s always the way: it don’t make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience ain’t got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.”
I think this means that no matter what you do a conscience will make you feel bad. When he saw the Duke and the Dauphin being tarred and feathered, his Ill feelings towards them started to fade away. They were just trying to make a living and they had decided to do it through conning people, but when you see that happening to someone, I think no matter what that person has done you would feel guilty for not helping them.
5. Why are Tom and Huck looking for a more difficult way to break Jim free? (Chapter 34)
HUck made a simple plan to get Jim out but Tom said it wasn't stylish enough so they needed to add more style. "Tom told me what his plan was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all killed besides."
He was trying to make himself feel better by praying about a lie about stealing away Jim form Mrs.Watson. Huck was stressed because the flyer for Jim's capture was still out there so people still were looking for him. Huck was debating about writing a letter to Mrs.Watson but he decided not to after realizing then he would get caught for freeing a slave. While he was praying he said that he wasn't gonna do any more bad things
2. Why does Huck tear up the letter he writes? (Chapter 31)
Huck was going to write to Tom Sawyer and to tell Miss Watson where Jim was, he was going to but then remembered his kind heart and all that they have been through so he decided to seal him back instead of Mrs. Watson sell him. So he tears the letter up and decides to do it himself.
3. Huck is disappointed that Tom would help him steal Jim. He says “Tom Sawyer fell, considerable, in my estimation. Only I couldn’t believe it. Tom Sawyer a nigger stealer!” What do you think of this? (Chapter 33)
Huck probably wanted him to say no so that he could make up his mind. Huck was probably hoping that he would so no so that he could make up an excuse to not do any more bad. He was deciding whether or not he should help Jim, he probaly wanted to see another opion and see what they would think.
4. Huck says two things at the end of chapter 33:
a.“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
That we treat each other horribly because of things we do to try and earn money, but then when we do it, we get mad when they treat us the same way. ( What goes around comes around.)
b.“But that’s always the way: it don’t make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience ain’t got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.”
I think this means that no matter what you do a conscience will make you feel bad. When he saw the Duke and the Dauphin being tarred and feathered, his Ill feelings towards them started to fade away. They were just trying to make a living and they had decided to do it through conning people, but when you see that happening to someone, I think no matter what that person has done you would feel guilty for not helping them.
5. Why are Tom and Huck looking for a more difficult way to break Jim free? (Chapter 34)
HUck made a simple plan to get Jim out but Tom said it wasn't stylish enough so they needed to add more style. "Tom told me what his plan was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all killed besides."
Huckleberry Finn chapters 36-40
1. In the process of breaking Jim free, what is Tom’s motivation? What is Huck’s motivation? (Why are they doing it?)
Tom wants the escape to be as dramatic and a fantastical as physically possible. He wants to have an adventure like the people in books do.He's trying to make him a real prisoner and he's using impractical methods to get Jim out. Huck's motivation is that he cares about Jim and what happens to him. He doesn't want Jim to be a slave again. He wants Jim to have that freedom. Huck is willing to commit a "sinful" act for Jim because they have a true friendship.
2. What do Huck and Tom mean when they say they “let on” about something? Why do they do this? (Begins on chapter 37)
When Huck and Tom say "let on", they're talking about telling everyone. They say this because Tom suggested they should dig the hole with picks, but tell everyone that they dug it with case knives instead. They were talking about how immoral this situation was, and the only way to get Jim out is dig him out with one thing, but make them think he used another.
3. Why is Tom writing the letters and posting warnings? Why did he give instructions to his aunt and uncle’s slave? What are his motivations for this? (Chapter 39)
Tom is writing the letters so that people will know that something is up so that they can see his escape plan. Because, after all the hard work they've put into the plan Tom doesn't want it to go without a hitch. He wants something to go wrong so that people will see their amazing escape plan that they had for Jim. He gave the slaves instructions so that they would tell the family what was going on and that their plan would go perfectly. Tom's motivations are purely for the glory of the escape. He wants people to see his glorious plan and he wanted that extra sense of adventure. If he got people to come after them then he would have the story that he always wanted.
4. We’ve worked a great deal on this novel’s satirical elements. How is the planning and plotting of Jim’s escape by Tom and Huck satire? -
This is satire because it pokes fun at all the great escapes of the day. The failed escape of Louis XVI being one of the escapes they use for reference. Tom having read many of the stories about the planned escape of King Louis decided to use some of the elements that he read in the book. When they finish the getting Jim out of the cabin and they are on the raft, he says " Boys, we done it elegant!--- 'deed we did. I wish we'd 'a' had the handling of Louis XVI, there wouldn't 'a' been no ' Son of Saint Louis, ascend to heaven' wrote down in his biography" Tom was saying that they should have been in charge of getting the King out of the castle because then he wouldn't have died.
5. Towards the end of the chapter Huck says “I knowed he was white inside” about Jim. Why does he say this and what does he mean?
He wanted to save Tom from the bullet that had lodged in his leg, and he wouldn't let the raft drift until Tom had been seen by a doctor.
Tom wants the escape to be as dramatic and a fantastical as physically possible. He wants to have an adventure like the people in books do.He's trying to make him a real prisoner and he's using impractical methods to get Jim out. Huck's motivation is that he cares about Jim and what happens to him. He doesn't want Jim to be a slave again. He wants Jim to have that freedom. Huck is willing to commit a "sinful" act for Jim because they have a true friendship.
2. What do Huck and Tom mean when they say they “let on” about something? Why do they do this? (Begins on chapter 37)
When Huck and Tom say "let on", they're talking about telling everyone. They say this because Tom suggested they should dig the hole with picks, but tell everyone that they dug it with case knives instead. They were talking about how immoral this situation was, and the only way to get Jim out is dig him out with one thing, but make them think he used another.
3. Why is Tom writing the letters and posting warnings? Why did he give instructions to his aunt and uncle’s slave? What are his motivations for this? (Chapter 39)
Tom is writing the letters so that people will know that something is up so that they can see his escape plan. Because, after all the hard work they've put into the plan Tom doesn't want it to go without a hitch. He wants something to go wrong so that people will see their amazing escape plan that they had for Jim. He gave the slaves instructions so that they would tell the family what was going on and that their plan would go perfectly. Tom's motivations are purely for the glory of the escape. He wants people to see his glorious plan and he wanted that extra sense of adventure. If he got people to come after them then he would have the story that he always wanted.
4. We’ve worked a great deal on this novel’s satirical elements. How is the planning and plotting of Jim’s escape by Tom and Huck satire? -
This is satire because it pokes fun at all the great escapes of the day. The failed escape of Louis XVI being one of the escapes they use for reference. Tom having read many of the stories about the planned escape of King Louis decided to use some of the elements that he read in the book. When they finish the getting Jim out of the cabin and they are on the raft, he says " Boys, we done it elegant!--- 'deed we did. I wish we'd 'a' had the handling of Louis XVI, there wouldn't 'a' been no ' Son of Saint Louis, ascend to heaven' wrote down in his biography" Tom was saying that they should have been in charge of getting the King out of the castle because then he wouldn't have died.
5. Towards the end of the chapter Huck says “I knowed he was white inside” about Jim. Why does he say this and what does he mean?
He wanted to save Tom from the bullet that had lodged in his leg, and he wouldn't let the raft drift until Tom had been seen by a doctor.
Huckleberry Finn chapters 41
1. Towards the end of chapter 41: “And then when I went up to bed, she come up with me, and fetched her candle, and tucked me in, and mothered me so good I felt mean and like I couldn’t look her in the face”. Why does Huck feel this way?
Huck feels guilty because he thinks he lost Tom, he feels bad because he helped the slave get free. he wont look into her eyes because then he will feal bad and then tell her. Right after this Huck and Sally stayed up a little longer talking about "Sid" and if Huck thought he was lost or hurt.he feels horrible at lying to this Woman that has done so much to help him and keep him safe.
2. In chapter 42 we hear the doctor’s account of his experience treating Tom: “so I says, I got have help, somehow; and the minute I says it, out crawls this nigger from somewheres, and says he’ll help; and he done it too, and done it very well.” Can we come to an understanding about Jim from this? What do we learn about him?
Jim felt bad because he got shot while trying to help jim and he feels bad. Jim is a thoughtful and kind man. jim would do anything to get him better even risking his freedom. The doctor found Tom too injured to be left alone while he gets help, so jim said he would stay with him. Jim is faithful and the doctor could tell he was exhausted from being worked too hard lately. Jim was a great 'nurse' to Tom, caring for him and sticking with him through thick and thin. Jim was a great gentleman, and he wasn't a bad slave.
3.What do we learn about Tom from what he says when he wakes up after being treated for the gunshot wound (Chapter 42)?
Tom wants to live a life of adventure and he wants people to know that it was him. When he dropped the bomb shell of Miss Watson's passing and that she set Jim free in her will and they were freeing an already free slave, you could see that he wanted the thrill of the adventure more than the reward. He knew that Jim was free but saw it as a way to have a safe adventure. Tom has been keeping the secrets about the death of Miss Watson and the fact that Jim is free tells me that he will do anything to have an adventure. Including freeing someone who is already free.
4. You’ve finished the novel: Tell me, in three to four sentences, what you think of Huck.
I think Huck is an interesting character with an interesting personality. I'm not freeing a slave so it's not the same but it allowed me to relate to this book a little bit more. I think Huck is a little imaginative. When he joined Tom Sawyers gang at the very beginning of the book that was apparently going to take captives, kill, and steal, he was imagining all of these things because they never did that stuff. He had all of this money at the beginning of the book, and to get away from his Dad he gave it all up.
Huck feels guilty because he thinks he lost Tom, he feels bad because he helped the slave get free. he wont look into her eyes because then he will feal bad and then tell her. Right after this Huck and Sally stayed up a little longer talking about "Sid" and if Huck thought he was lost or hurt.he feels horrible at lying to this Woman that has done so much to help him and keep him safe.
2. In chapter 42 we hear the doctor’s account of his experience treating Tom: “so I says, I got have help, somehow; and the minute I says it, out crawls this nigger from somewheres, and says he’ll help; and he done it too, and done it very well.” Can we come to an understanding about Jim from this? What do we learn about him?
Jim felt bad because he got shot while trying to help jim and he feels bad. Jim is a thoughtful and kind man. jim would do anything to get him better even risking his freedom. The doctor found Tom too injured to be left alone while he gets help, so jim said he would stay with him. Jim is faithful and the doctor could tell he was exhausted from being worked too hard lately. Jim was a great 'nurse' to Tom, caring for him and sticking with him through thick and thin. Jim was a great gentleman, and he wasn't a bad slave.
3.What do we learn about Tom from what he says when he wakes up after being treated for the gunshot wound (Chapter 42)?
Tom wants to live a life of adventure and he wants people to know that it was him. When he dropped the bomb shell of Miss Watson's passing and that she set Jim free in her will and they were freeing an already free slave, you could see that he wanted the thrill of the adventure more than the reward. He knew that Jim was free but saw it as a way to have a safe adventure. Tom has been keeping the secrets about the death of Miss Watson and the fact that Jim is free tells me that he will do anything to have an adventure. Including freeing someone who is already free.
4. You’ve finished the novel: Tell me, in three to four sentences, what you think of Huck.
I think Huck is an interesting character with an interesting personality. I'm not freeing a slave so it's not the same but it allowed me to relate to this book a little bit more. I think Huck is a little imaginative. When he joined Tom Sawyers gang at the very beginning of the book that was apparently going to take captives, kill, and steal, he was imagining all of these things because they never did that stuff. He had all of this money at the beginning of the book, and to get away from his Dad he gave it all up.