Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapter Two Summary

Huck and Tom go traipsing through the dark. They pass the kitchen and see Jim, Miss Watson’s slave (don’t forget, we’re in the pre-Civil War South) sitting by the window.
A side note: In the text, Twain frequently uses the word ‘nigger’ to refer to the black slaves. This is a testament to the times and a true record of vernacular in the setting.
Jim hears the boys scuffling around and comes outside to investigate; Huck and Tom freeze and try to hide.
Huck makes the most astute comment ever: when you can’t move, you always itch all over the place.
Jim, determined to find out what the noise was, sits down outside to wait and falls asleep.
Huck and Tom decide to play a prank on Jim.
Much hilarity ensues. Tom goes into the kitchen to take a candle to see by and leaves five cents on the table for payment. When he comes back, he takes Jim’s hat off his (sleeping) head and hangs it on the branch above him.
Huck tells us that later, when Jim finally wakes up, he tells everyone he was visited by witches who rode him all around the world. He becomes the famous authority for all things witch-related, which is of course a knee slappin’ good time for Huck.
But back to the night at hand. After setting the prank in motion, Tom and Huck pick up a few more of their friends and bring the boys to a cave in the woods.
Fortunately, all Tom Sawyer does is start a gang and, in a bout of creativity and selflessness, call it "Tom Sawyer’s Gang."
This is endearing until the boys have to sign a blood oath, which no one seems to have any qualms about. Tom reveals he got the idea from books about pirates and robbers and so forth.
Someone thinks it would be a good idea to kill the family of any boy that breaks the oath.
All agree.
This creates some difficulties for Huck; we find that his father used to lay drunk with the hogs and is nowhere to be found these days, which would render killing him a problem.
Huck, always a problem-solver, offers up Miss Watson instead, to everyone’s great satisfaction.
Tom says they are all supposed to be robbers. They can’t steal, though – that would be burglary, and very, very wrong. Again, he speaks with authority, having gotten all his information from children’s fiction.
Tom debates with one of the boys, Ben Rogers, about the proper way to ransom a person. Women are easy, because you just bring them to your cave and are "polite as pie" to them and then they fall in love with you while you’re all waiting for them to get ransomed.
Then they all argue over what day to start the robbing and killing, since Sunday is out of the question (that would be wicked, in the evil sense).

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