Trying to finance their trip, the group stops at a small town along the river and advertises a theatrical production of Romeo and Juliet, starring famous actors David Garrick and Mrs. Jim is now trying to get to a free state and join his wife, so Huck decides to help him.įarther upstream they encounter "The King" and "The Duke," two conmen who have been set adrift from a riverboat for bilking passengers, and who try to convince Huck and Jim that they are the "Lost Dauphin of France" and "The Duke of Bridgewater." Though the King and the Duke know that Jim is a runaway slave and plan to collect a reward for his return, they pretend to help him and Huck.
Unknown to either Jim or Huck, when evidence of Huck's apparent murder was discovered, Jim's disappearance led authorities to believe that he was the murderer. Jim has run away from the widow because she was planning to sell him to raise money to keep Huck. He then goes upstream, and sometime later runs into his friend Jim, the widow's slave. When Pap leaves him alone, Huck escapes and makes it appear as if he has been murdered and dumped into the river. Huck then leaves, but is caught by his father, who confines him in a shack across the river. One night, when Pap goes to the widow and demands eight hundred dollars from her to keep his son, Huck overhears and decides to leave to prevent her from impoverishing herself for him. Though the widow loves Huck and he is fond of her, he finds it difficult to behave like the gentleman she wants, preferring loafing to going to school and going barefoot to wearing shoes. In the mid-eighteenth century, along the Mississippi River, young Huckleberry Finn, the son of the loutish drunk "Pap" Finn, lives with the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson.
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