Huckleberry Finn Timeline and Summary

Huck resists being taught knowledge, religion, and etiquette by Miss Watson and the Widow. In that order.
He plays a prank on Jim along with Tom.
He sneaks out of bed in the middle of the night to play with Tom and some others boys in a kind of cops ’n robbers game.
We learn all about Huck’s drunken Pap.
Huck gives all his money to Judge Thatcher based on having a bad feeling. And it’s not heartburn.
He gets his fortune told by Jim’s magic hairball.
He starts to like school.
He starts to like living by the river (he’s easy to please).
After being beaten and mistreated by his drunk Pap, Huck fakes his own death using pig’s blood and jets off to Jackson’s Island.
He meets Jim on the island.
Huck plays a prank on Jim that results in Jim getting bitten by a rattlesnake. Guilt follows.
He pretends to be a girl and chats with Mrs. Judith Loftus, garnering information about his own supposed death.
He and Jim discover three robbers on a wrecked steamboat.
Huck tries unsuccessfully to get the robbers saved.
He is unable to explain the point of the biblical Solomon story to Jim.
He is separated from Jim in the fog and tries to convince him said fog never existed.
Huck apologizes to Jim – for the first time.
After a steamboat crashes through their raft, Huck is taken in by the Grangerfords by pretending to be George Jackson.
Huck befriends Buck. Dr. Seuss is amused.
He sneaks a note from Harney Shepherdson to Sophia Grangerford. Bad call.
Huck witnesses Buck’s death.
He encounters the duke and king.
In Arkansas, Huck witnesses Sherburn shoot Boggs.
Huck is witness to the many cons of the duke and king, including The Royal Nonesuch.
He starts to feel ashamed at all this lying and conning, particularly where Mary Jane and an enormous inheritance are thrown into the mix.
Huck’s steals the gold from the inheritance and hides it in the coffin of the dead Peter Wilks. He also comments on the totally awesome undertaker.
He devises a plan and confides in Mary Jane. He and Jim try to escape from the duke and king but fail.
Huck goes to Silas Phelps’s farm to get Jim back and pretends to be Tom Sawyer (their nephew) when he gets there.
Huck intercepts Tom Sawyer before he gets to the farm.
He schemes with Tom to free Jim.
Huck runs to get a doctor to help Tom with the gunshot wound.
He returns home to be chastised by Aunt Sally.
He finds out that Jim is free and his father dead
He plans to head west.

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