Huckleberry Finn Chapter 8-12 Summary

In chapter 8 Huck sees a ferry boat going down the river and Pap, Miss Watson, Judge Thatcher, and everyone he knows is on the ferry boat looking for his body. There ae cannons going off to try to bring his body to the surface. There was also a loaf of bread floating in the water to help find his body and Huck found it and ate it. Huck hid in the bushes to watch the ferry boat go by. Later he hears somebody on the island also. The next morning he looks to find out that it is Jim. At first Jim thinks Huck is a ghost and is frightened. Huck tells him the story and they eat breakfast. Jim said he ran away because he was scared that Miss Watson was going to sell him for eight hundred dollars. Huck and Jim are planning a route to get to the free lands.

In chapter 9 and 10 Huck and Jim find a cave in the island and grab some items out of a house floating down the river that they thought might be useful. Huck tried to play a trick on Jim with a rattlesnake but the rattlesnake's mate ended up biting Jim. Huck Finn found a girls dress in the abandoned house and put it on to try and sneek into town to see what was goin on. He stopped at a house that he thought was abandoned but saw a light. He saw a women in the window with a candle light and she was knitting. He knocked on the door and she had him come in. She talked about the town and about the murder. She ended finding out that he was a guy because he threw like a boy would and he did not know anything about how to sew. She said that her husband and his friend thought that Jim was on the island and they were going to look for him a little over midnight. There was a $300 reward for Jim and a $200 reward for pap because many people believed that pap was the murderer. Many people also thought that Jim was the murderer. Huck and Jim try to put everything on their canoe and they leave the island. They make a wigwam down the river and are living in it.

In Chapter 11 and 12 Huck goes to a house dressed as a girl to find out what is going on in the town. The woman tells him about the murder and about herself and her family. She also tells him that her husband believe that there is a negro on Jackson's Island and they are going to look for him a little after midnight. The woman finds out that Huck is not a girl but is not upse with him. She asks for his real name and he still lies to her about his name and where he came from. She found out that he was not a girl by the way he sewed and he closed his legs when she put a ball of lead in his lap. Once Huck got away from the house he went and got Jim from the island and took off down the river. One night there was a big storm and Huck and Jim were hiding out in the wigwam and Huck sees a steamboat the has wrecked and wants to go explore it. Once Huck goes to the steamboat and gets inside he realizes he is not alone. There are three other men in the steamboat and one of them is tied up and another one has a gun and wants to kill him. Huck sneeks back out of the steamboat and relizes the raft had broke off and floated down the river. So now they have to look for the mens boat.