This part of the book starts out with Huck's father unaware about his drunken rage the night before. Then when Huck goes to see if there has been any fish on the line, he finds a canoe in the water, and hides it in the woods. As Huck's papa leaves for the day, Huck continues to cut through the wall in the cabin. Then Huck made a lot of changes to the cabin so that it looks like robbers came into the cabin and stole everything and kill Huck. Huck also puts everything of value into his canoe. Then Huck sets off to go to Jackson's island in the middle of the river. While rowing down the river he passes by his dad, but Huck's dad does not notice him. He then makes it safely to Jackson's Island unseen by anyone. The next morning, Huck wakes up and sees a ferry going across the river, carrying some of his dear friens, including Tom,Pap, Judge Thatcher and his daughter Bessie Tom’s aunt Polly, and some of Huck’s young friends. As they are passing by they are throwing off pieces of bread and shoot cannonballs in hope that they will find Huck's body. Huck then spends three peaceful days on the island, eating some of the berries on the island and he catches some fish to eat also. Then Huck finds Jim on the island, and finds out that Jim is a runaway because he overheard that he would be sold to a slave owner in New Orleans, and be seperated from his family.
I thought that it was wierd how Huck planned and performed his escape from his father. I thought it was wierd how the people that cared about Huck, tried finding his body by shooting off cannonballs and throwing loaves of bread into the river. I also, think that it is funny to see all of the things that they believe in. Like how Jim has hairy arms and a chest so that it means that he will be wealthy in the future, and also, when Huck flicked a spider into a fire he thought that it was bad luck.
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