Huckleberry Finn Chapter 1 Summary

The first four chapters of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was an indirect introduction to the characters and their feelings in the story. Huckleberry, a teenager, and Tom, have found 12,000 dollars in a cave in the last book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and gave it to the bank to hold. Huck returns to live Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson to join Tom’s band of robbers. The Widow teaches Huck about Christianity, talking about Moses and making him pray before each meal. Miss Watson, on the other hand, gives Huck spelling lessons. The Widow told Huck about hell, and Huck wants to go there and have a change in life with Tom. At the end of chapter one, one night, Huck goes to bed, but rosen by sounds of a cat, “Meowww,” as Tom was …show more content…
Jim walked out but fell asleep, while, after itching from crouching silently and still, Huck and Tom prank Jim by replacing his hat onto a tree. Tom gets a candle from the kitchen, leaving five cents on the table. Tom and Huck retrieve their other friend boys as they travel to a large cave. In the cave, they decide to make a gang called “Tom Sawyer’s gang.” The boys use their blood to sign an oath, and breaking the oath meant killing their family. Huck was decided to kill Miss Watson. After discussing procedures in “ransoming”, or making them captive and fall in love with the boys, Huck sets out for home, getting in bed right before dawn, marking the end of chapter …show more content…
Huck realized the boot footprints were by Pap, as there were a cross from two nails to ward from devils. Huck hurried to Judge Thatcher, the banker who held Huck’s money, and sold his 6,000 dollars for one. Huck goes to Jim, as he had a fortune-telling hairball. Huck asked for the reason of Jim’s presence. After giving the hairball a counterfeit quarter for currency, the hairball tells Jim that Pap has two angels, one black and one white, one bad and one good, on his shoulders-Pap doesn’t know which one to choose. The hairball tells that Huck should avoid the water, as that was where he was going to die. Jim retells this to Huck. Huck walks up to his room, and he finds Pap in it. The first four chapters were honestly really interesting, especially because it was told from a voice, rather than read from me. Every chapter’s end was a great and tense cliffhanger. For example, chapter four ended with Pap being in Huck’s room. Although I am currently thirteen years old, the unique decisions of Tom, Huck, and Jim are really hilarious. Jim’s fortune-telling hairball that demanded money for telling fortunes was quite weird. I really like how the book’s chapters are short and at the same time, detailed to the maximum. It was, so far, an interesting four chapters, and I look forward to the next suspenseful

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