Chapter 15-18 summary

Huck and Jim figured that they are starting to get close to Cairo and it would only take a few more days and they would be there. One night there was alot of fog and they were trying to head for a towhead to tie to. The fog was too thick and there wasn't anything but little saplings to tie to. Huck lost Jim in the canoe and could not see Jim or the raft anywhere. He kept hearing whoops but he did not think it was Jim. Finally the whoops went away and Huck fell asleep. When he awoke, all the fog was gone and he could see around him. He found Jim and the raft and pretended that he had been there the whole time. Jim thought he had been dreaming but then he found out that Huck was lying to him and that it all had really happened. Jim was very disappointed and Huck decided he would never play any more tricks on him. Huck started feeling guilty because he was helping a runaway slave get free. Huck is on his way to a town to see how close they are to Cairo and he runs into some slave catchers. He decided not to turn Jim in and he got away with the men not checking his raft by making them believe that his family had the small pox. The slave catchers gave Huck forty dollars. Huck and Jim beleived that the found Cairo but they had to wait for dark to head out so they selpt until dark. Then they went back to the raft and notice the canoe was stolen. They were looking for a place that sold canoes when they saw a steamboat coming right for them. They thought it would steer off but it never did and they had to jump overboard. Huck swam to shore by hanging on to a plank. He found a log house and met the Grangerfords. They thought he might of been a Sheperdson at first so they examined him to make sure he wasn't. They let him in and got him some food. He also got some dry clothes to put on. He got to know all about their family. One day Huck and Jim went out in the woods and saw a Sheperdson on a horse. He shot at him but only got his hat. Buck told Huck all about the feud that was going on inbetween the two families. One of the slaves tells Huck to go to the swamp and he wants to show him some water-moccasins. He actually showed him where Jim was and he had fixed the raft. Miss Sophia had ran off to be with one of the Sheperdon's boys and there was no way that the Grangefords was going to let it happen so all the men and boys got their guns and headed out. Huck heard shots being fired and Buck was killed. Huck hid in a tree till dark and then went back to Jim and headed back out on the raft. Huck felt alot more comfortable now being on the raft and away from all the firing.

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.

Huckleberry Finn

Characters- Huck, Pap, Miss Watson, Widow Douglas, Tom Sawyer, Jim, and Judge Thatcher. So far Huck seems to have a bad home life and has ran away. He does not want to become civilized. The widow and Miss Watson seemed to be strict. His father is a drunk and locks him inside the house when he is gone. Eventually Huck escapes from the house and takes alot of items out of the house and takes off in a canoe he found floating in the river. It has been a very adventerous book so far.

Alas, Babylon

I thought Alas, Babylon was an exciting book. The first chapters in the book were a little boring but it ended up being very interesting. My favorite part of the book was when the war was going on and there was alot of action. It was also interesting to read about how they survived when they were almost out of everything.

To Kill a Mockingbird

I liked the book alot more than the movie because it gave alot more detail.

Of Mice and Men

It was a good book because it kept me interested and it was not really long.

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