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    The Huckleberry Finn 2

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    Huck escapes from his abusive father by faking his own death. He hides out on Jackson's Island with Jim, a runaway slave. They team up and travel down the Mississippi River on a raft, hoping to reach free states where slavery is illegal. However, they have several close calls and dangerous encounters with people searching for Jim. Huck struggles with whether helping Jim is right since he is considered stolen property.

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    The Huckleberry Finn 2

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    Huck escapes from his abusive father by faking his own death. He hides out on Jackson's Island with Jim, a runaway slave. They team up and travel down the Mississippi River on a raft, hoping to reach free states where slavery is illegal. However, they have several close calls and dangerous encounters with people searching for Jim. Huck struggles with whether helping Jim is right since he is considered stolen property.

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    Huck escapes from his abusive father by faking his own death. He hides out on Jackson's Island with Jim, a runaway slave. They team up and travel down the Mississippi River on a raft, hoping to reach free states where slavery is illegal. However, they have several close calls and dangerous encounters with people searching for Jim. Huck struggles with whether helping Jim is right since he is considered stolen property.

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    The Huckleberry Finn 2

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    Huck escapes from his abusive father by faking his own death. He hides out on Jackson's Island with Jim, a runaway slave. They team up and travel down the Mississippi River on a raft, hoping to reach free states where slavery is illegal. However, they have several close calls and dangerous encounters with people searching for Jim. Huck struggles with whether helping Jim is right since he is considered stolen property.

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    Whenever Pap goes out, he locks Huck in the cabin, and when he returns

    home drunk, he beats the boy. Tired of his confinement and fearing the
    beatings will worsen, Huck escapes from Pap by faking his own death,
    killing a pig and spreading its blood all over the cabin. Hiding on
    Jackson’s Island in the middle of the Mississippi River, Huck watches
    the townspeople search the river for his body. After a few days on the
    island, he encounters Jim, one of Miss Watson’s slaves. Jim has run
    away from Miss Watson after hearing her talk about selling him to a
    plantation down the river, where he would be treated horribly and
    separated from his wife and children. Huck and Jim team up, despite
    Huck’s uncertainty about the legality or morality of helping a runaway
    slave. While they camp out on the island, a great storm causes the
    Mississippi to flood. Huck and Jim spy a log raft and a house floating
    past the island. They capture the raft and loot the house, finding in it the
    body of a man who has been shot. Jim refuses to let Huck see the dead
    man’s face.
    Although the island is blissful, Huck and Jim are forced to leave after
    Huck learns from a woman onshore that her husband has seen smoke
    coming from the island and believes that Jim is hiding out there. Huck
    also learns that a reward has been offered for Jim’s capture. Huck and
    Jim start downriver on the raft, intending to leave it at the mouth of the
    Ohio River and proceed up that river by steamboat to the free states,
    where slavery is prohibited. Several days’ travel takes them past St.
    Louis, and they have a close encounter with a gang of robbers on a
    wrecked steamboat. They manage to escape with the robbers’ loot.
    During a night of thick fog, Huck and Jim miss the mouth of the Ohio
    and encounter a group of men looking for escaped slaves. Huck has a
    brief moral crisis about concealing stolen “property”—Jim, after all,
    belongs to Miss Watson—but then lies to the men and tells them that his
    father is on the raft suffering from smallpox. Terrified of the disease, the

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