Caught up between ethics and legality, Huck must make a decision. Huck must decide whether to trust his gut feeling and help an innocent flee slavery, or view the poor man simply as property. After faking his own death and on the run, he meets Jim who is a runaway slave with a bounty to his name. Just when things are improving for Huck, he is kidnapped and mistreated by his no-good father. Huck’s refusal to do so only infuriates Pap. However, just as things begin to stabilize, Pap returns to the picture and demands Huck give him the money that he had previously attained during an adventure with his best friend Tom Sawyer. Although he dislikes the strict regime of education, manners, church and rigid clothing, which are a necessity to fit into society, Huck prefers anything to his previous life with his drunkard father Pap. The book opens with a description of Huck’s new life as he undergoes a process of “civilization” while living with the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson.
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