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【2010寒假读书报告】——2008英语 陈俊宇
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                Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

                                     from Mark Twain

The people of this story : Huckleberry Finn ,Tom Sawyer, Widow Douglas and Jim.

 

This story happened after the adventures of Tom Sawyer,In the advanture of Tom Sawyer ,the two young men Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, have each come into a considerable sum of money as a result of adventures.

 

At the beginning of this story ,the writter told us Huckleberry Finn was very afraid of his father,.his father was very rude and he loved drinking,.If he was drunk he would treat Huckleberry Finn as a animal.

At the beginning of this story Huckleberry Finn had been placed under the guardianship of the Widow Douglas, Widow Douglas wanted Huck tobe a good gentleman ,she set a lot of rules and she ordered Huck to obey them but Huck didn’t like those rules, so decided to escape form the guardianship of Widow Douglas,At this time Tom Sawyer appears briefly, helping Huck escape at night from the house, past Miss Watson's slave, Jim. They meet up with Tom Sawyer's self-proclaimed gang, who plot to carry out adventurous crimes.Life is changed by the sudden appearance of his shiftless father "Pap," an abusive parent and drunkard. Although Huck is successful in preventing his Pap from acquiring his fortune, Pap forcibly gains custody of Huck and the two move to the backwoods where Huck is kept locked inside his father's cabin. Equally dissatisfied with life with his father, Huck escapes from the cabin, elaborately fakes his own death, and sets off down the Mississippi River., While living quite comfortably in the wilderness along the Mississippi, Huck happily encounters Miss Watson's slave Jim on an island called Jackson's Island, and Huck learns that he has also run away, after Miss Watson threatens to sell him downriver, where conditions for slaves were even harsher.

Jim is trying to make his way to Cario, to get to Ohio, a free state, to buy his family's freedom. At first, Huck is conflicted over whether to tell someone about Jim's running away, but they travel together, they talk in depth, and Huck begins to know more about Jim's past and his difficult life. As these talks continue, Huck begins to change his opinion about people, slavery, and life in general.

One night, they find a raft they will eventually use to travel down the Mississippi. Later, they find an entire house floating down the river and enter it to grab what they can. Entering one room, Jim finds Pap lying dead on the floor, shot in the back while apparently trying to ransack the house. He refuses to let Huck see the man's face and does not reveal that it is Pap. During the travel,many interesting things happened , they also met many interesting people such as the Duke and the King.

After Jim's recapture, events quickly resolve themselves. Tom's Aunt Polly arrives and reveals Huck's and Tom's true identities. Tom announces that Jim has been free for months: Miss Watson died two months earlier and freed Jim in her will, but Tom chose not to reveal Jim's freedom so he could come up with an elaborate plan to rescue Jim. Jim tells Huck that Huck's father has been dead for some time and that Huck may return safely to St. Petersburg. In the final narrative, Huck declares that he is quite glad to be done writing his story, and despite Tom's family's plans to adopt and "sivilize" him, Huck intends to flee west to Indian Territory.