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HuckA boy who struggles with the Widow Douglas’s household rules, lessons, and religion.First seen in chapter 1
Tom SawyerHuck’s friend who makes respectable behavior a condition of joining his proposed robber band.First seen in chapter 1
Widow DouglasThe woman whose household Huck returns to, where she teaches religion and restricts smoking.First seen in chapter 1
Miss WatsonA woman who gives Huck spelling lessons and corrects his manners.First seen in chapter 1
Judge ThatcherThe judge who invests the hidden gold Huck and Tom find.First seen in chapter 1
JimA man Tom tricks while he sleeps, who later explains the trick through stories about witches.First seen in chapter 2
papHuck’s father, whose reported death Huck doubts because of how the body floats.First seen in chapter 3
BuckA boy who supplies Huck with dry clothes and becomes his friend.First seen in chapter 17
the kingOne of two fleeing strangers Huck rescues, who falsely claims a royal identity.First seen in chapter 19
the dukeOne of two dishonest strangers brought onto the raft, who claims a noble identity.First seen in chapter 19
Mary JanePeter Wilks’s daughter who rejects a warning and entrusts the supposed uncle with the gold.First seen in chapter 25
Aunt SallyA woman at the Phelps plantation who mistakes Huck for her expected nephew.First seen in chapter 32
Uncle SilasA man whose possible discovery of Jim’s origins makes Tom agree to hurry.First seen in chapter 35
Aunt PollyA woman who confirms Jim’s freedom and exposes Huck and Tom’s assumed identities.First seen in chapter 42

Chapter 1
Huck struggles with household rules and climbs out to meet Tom Sawyer.
Chapter 2
Tom leads the boys into a cave to form a robber gang.
Chapter 4
His father’s footprints alarm Huck, who sells his money to Judge Thatcher and later finds pap in his room.
Chapter 6
Huck plans to escape confinement, but his father attacks him with a knife before he can leave.
Chapter 7
Huck stages his own murder and escapes by canoe to Jackson’s Island.
Chapter 8
Huck discovers Jim hiding on the island and promises to keep his escape secret.
Chapter 11
Huck learns that searchers plan to visit Jackson’s Island and returns to warn Jim.
Chapter 13
Huck and Jim escape the wrecked steamboat and recover their raft, but Huck’s attempt to arrange rescue fails.
Chapter 15
After their separation in fog, Huck tricks Jim, then apologizes when Jim explains the pain his lie causes.
Chapter 16
Huck protects Jim from armed searchers, but a steamboat later strikes their raft and separates them.
Chapter 18
Fighting between the feuding families kills Buck, and Huck leaves with Jim on their repaired raft.
Chapter 19
Huck rescues two fleeing strangers who falsely claim noble and royal identities.
Chapter 20
The king collects donations through a false confession, while the duke prints a notice to disguise Jim’s escape.
Chapter 23
The king and duke escape their angry audiences, and Jim tells Huck about his homesickness and daughter.
Chapter 25
The king and duke impersonate Peter Wilks’s brothers, and Mary Jane entrusts them with the gold.
Chapter 28
Huck tells Mary Jane the supposed uncles are frauds and arranges her departure before exposing them.
Chapter 29
Townspeople discover the gold in Peter’s coffin, and Huck escapes, only for the frauds to reach the raft.
Chapter 31
After learning Jim has been sold, Huck tears up his letter to Miss Watson and decides to free him.
Chapter 33
Tom agrees to help free Jim and adopts another identity so Huck can continue posing as Tom.
Chapter 36
Huck and Tom reach Jim through their tunnel, but Tom persuades him to delay leaving for further preparations.
Chapter 39
Tom sends anonymous warnings that invite interference with the planned escape.
Chapter 40
The boys and Jim escape, but Tom is wounded, and Jim refuses to leave without medical help.
Chapter 42
Jim is chained again before Tom reveals that Miss Watson freed him in her will.
Chapter 43
Huck learns his father is dead and plans to leave for the Territory rather than accept Aunt Sally’s adoption.
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