• Huck dressed as a young girl under the name Sarah Williams is let into a woman's shack, and she eyes him suspiciously. After much chatter the woman revels much about herself, and what people think happened to Huck, Jim, as well as Pap. Both Jim and Pap have a reward laid out for them because they had disappeared the day of Huck's disappearance. Pap $200, and Jim $300. She also tells Huck that they want to search the island because she saw smoke there and they believe that Jim is over there. She also lets him know that he does a horrible job at pretending that he's a girl. 

• Huck-the main character 
• The woman (who's name isn't reveled)- the one that let Huck into her shack

• Why hadn't the woman questioned Huck's disguise, the way he was dressed and his name changing? 
• Do you think she ever suspected anything strongly suspicious about Huck, the questions he asked? In what ways did she show her suspicion in? 
  

• The woman tells Huck all about what people think happened to Huck and Jim and what actions were taken upon their disappearance. (page 57)

- This passage/page was important to the story because it gave Huck all the key points of his disappearance and what people thought, it also told him that his father had also disappeared as well.

• "A few days ago I was talking with an old couple that lives next door in the log shanty, and they happened to say hardly anybody ever goes to that island over yonder that they call Jackson's Island. Don't anybody live there? says I. No, nobody, says they. I didn't say any more, but I don't some thinking. I was pretty near certain I'd seen smoke over there, about the head of the island, a day or two before that, so I says to myself, like as not that nigger's hiding over there; anyway, says I, it's worth the trouble to give that place a hunt..." The woman goes on saying how her husband and another man are going to search the island. 

- This passage is important to the story because it gives Huck and Jim a chance to escape from the island in time, without getting caught. 

• It almost seems to real that Huck dresses up as a girl, goes to the town, is welcomed by a woman, who tells her everything about what's going on, which helps Huck a lot. It seems like everything foreshadows something else all the time.
• Notice how Huck is so un-educated. He just goes with the flow. He doesn't sit there and think of what he's going to say and do but he just says and does things that seem right for the moment, for instance as making up his name Sarah Williams then forgetting it, and saying it's Mary Williams, and finally when the woman figures out that he's a boy he makes up another name right off- George Peters, even though it's quite smart sometimes how he can just pop out with a story, he needs to watch out and at least remember his stories, because merely luck is helping him pass by all these people and them not realizing that he is lying to them.
• It's kind of awkward/creative the way she realizes that Huck is really not a girl, the way he throws the way he catches, and threads, it's something maybe not everyone would realize but she did, which I thought was very different.