In the beginning of this chapter Huck is woken up by Pap who doesn’t remember anything from the night before. Pap asks him what the gun was for and Huck lies and says someone was trying to break into the cabin the night before. Next Huck goes outside and finds a canoe floating down the river so he swims out and hides it in the brush so Pap won’t find it. Huck then meets up with Pap and they go to empty the fishing lines. Later they walk the riverbank and spot a part of a log raft that floated down the river because of the high tide. Pap decides to take it downstream a sell it that same day. Once Pap was gone Huck uses the hole he cut in the wall to get outside and load all their provisions into the canoe he’d gotten from earlier. Next Huck shoots a pig and spills its blood all over the cabin floor in order to make it look like someone had killed him. Next he drags a heavy sack out of the cabin and down to the river bed to make it look like someone had thrown his body into the river. Finally he made a trail of cornmeal to a small river to make it look like the way the robbers went. Huck then gets into his canoe and decides to take a nap, when he wakes up he finds Pap on his way home. Huck waits till Pap goes into the cabin and then heads down the river. After a while Huck makes it to Jackson Island and ties up in order to make camp. 

• Huck – Narrator and main character 
• Pap – Huck’s father 
• Dead Pig – Used for blood (and because there weren’t enough characters in this chapter)

• Huck shows his genius by making it look like he was killed. Do you think Pap will take the bait? 
• If Pap does think Huck is dead, what feeling do you thing he will show?

• “…but what he had been saying give me the very idea I wanted.” 

-This shows Huck beginning to work on a plan so he could escape without being afraid of pursuit. 

• “I dropped Pap’s wet stone too, so as to look like it had been done by accident.”

-This shows how smart Huck really is, how he is able to cover every detail in order to trick Pap. 

• This chapter seems to show Huck’s independence and genius. It seems to contradict with his previous more childish character.