But later reunite and when Jim confronts about the separation, Huck tells him that he was dreaming to which Jim gets deeply hurt, and Huck apologies to him. They restart their journey but an accident with a steamboat breaks their raft, separating them in the river. Huck feels it his responsibility to shield Jim from the onlookers by pretending that they are looking for medicines for his father suffering from smallpox which makes others shun them. Soon they find themselves trapped in fog that makes them miss the Ohio River and meet a group looking for slaves. Louis and meet a gang on the wreckage of a boat and share their loot with them. When they sense that their pursuers know about the traces of Jim’s presence on the island, they leave it downriver journey to go to the free states. After his successful escape, he hides on Jackson’s Island and meets Jim, a slave of Miss Watson with whom he befriends to live on that island until a storm forces them to raft their way to a house where they find a dead body. Fed up, he finally makes his way after pretending himself dead by making his father believe that the pig’s blood is actually his blood. Living in a cabin with his father has sucked Huck.
After long harassment and miserable life, Douglas, the Widow, again starts civilizing him but Pap hangs around, enraging Douglas who has to issue him a warning but he abducts his son. Soon he finds himself with his father again but a wrangle with the new judge and the old local judge over his rights and his father’s rights again land him to live with his father, Pap, making his life miserable.
Shortly, he rejoins Tom as a valuable member of his gang and does some thuggery but then Pap, his drunken father, appears from nowhere and asks for money from Huck. The novel opens with the introduction of the character with the previous novel’s hero, Tom Sawyer, setting the stage for Huck Finn, showing him how he gets hold of some money and lives with the Widow Douglas who takes care of him, but he is fed up of this urban lifestyle of manners with schooling and theological learning.
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