• Huck- “George Jackson” 

-The Grangerfords- the family that Huck stays with 

• Buck- a 13/14 yr old boy 
• Saul- Buck’s father
• Rachel- Buck’s mother
• Emmeline- the daughter of Saul and Rachel, she died at 15 

• Huck tries to sneak past a log house, but is stopped by dogs. He is asked if he is a Shepherdson. 
• Huck meets Buck. 
• The family says that Huck can stay with them as long as he wants to. 
• The house is exquisitely furnished, like the houses in town. 
• Huck finds out that one of the daughters, Emmeline, died at 15 and that she was an artist. 
• Huck sees Emmeline’s paintings and reads her poetry 

• Why do you think that Huck uses a different name and story for every person he meets? Wouldn’t it be easier for him to stick with one? 
• During this time Huck never mentions Jim or wonders what happened to him after the accident. How does this show the way he and Jim view their relationship differently? 

• “Poor Emmeline made poetry about all the dead people when she was alive, and it didn’t seem right that there waren’t nobody to make some about her, now she was gone;so I tried to sweat out a verse or two myself, but I couldn’t seem to make it go, somehow.” 

- This shows that Huck is turning into a compassionate person. He is not just thinking about himself anymore like he was in the beginning of the book. When he staged his own death, he didn’t even consider the grief that he was putting everyone through and now he is thinking about someone that he doesn’t even know. 

• “I set it down, private, because somebody might want me to spell it, next, and so I wanted to be handy with it and rattle it off like I was used to it.” 

- This is the time when Huck forgets his name and challenges Buck to spell it. Then he works on spelling it. Even though this seems like an insignificant detail, Huck always takes the time to notice things like this. These are the little that may just blow his story. 

• Huck claims that “Nothing couldn’t be better” at the end of this chapter. He always changes his mind about what he likes. When he goes back to living with his dad, Huck loves being back to his old ways. There is no one to set rules for him. He can smoke and doesn’t have to wear all of his nice clothes. Now that he is with the Grangerfords, he thinks everything is just perfect, even though it is the same type of living arrangement he was so happy to get rid of when he left Widow Douglas.