• Huck woke up to cannons being blasted off the ferry to make his body raise to shore. 
• Huck watched from the bushes friends, neighbors, and enemies look for his remains. 
• After they were gone, he went hunting and jumped into someone’s burning fire ashes, so he hid in a tree so the person on the island wouldn’t find him. 
• Huck decides he can’t stay in the tree forever, so he goes to check it out. 
• He finds Jim, Miss Watson’s slave. 
• Huck convinces Jim he is not dead, and tells him of his posed death. 
• Jim talks of running away because he was afraid he would be sold to a slave trader in town, then he’d never get back to his family. 
• While getting breakfast, the two discus superstition. 
• Jim continues saying how he will be rich because he has a hairy chest, and how he was once rich, but invested it other ways, but ended up getting cheated. 
• Yet Jim believes he is rich, because now, he owns himself. 

• Huck: narrator of story 
• Jim: runaway slave and acquaintance of Huck’s 
• Pap: Huck’s abusive father 
• Tom Sawyer: Huck’s best friend and adventurer

• Huck and Jim are very superstitious. What does this hold them back from? 
• The people on the ferry are concerned, what do you think it is such a big deal to everyone? 

• “I set there behind a clump of bushes in about six foot of him, and kept my eyes on him steady. It was getting gray daylight now. Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson’s Jim! I bet I was glad to see him!"

- Huck was feeling lonely up to this point and needed someone to talk to. Also he is interested in Jim because of his magical abilities. 

• "Ef you’s got hairy arms en a hairy breas’, it’s a sign day you’s agwyne to be rich. We’ll dey’s some use in a sign like dat.” 

- Because it gives them a connection with superstition right away, and it foreshadows events dealing with superstition.

• The N word is used be everyone including Jim. How is this an example to a student of respect? 
• Huck knows that Jim is a runaway slave, then being illegal, why does Mark 
• Twain want Huck to not have a problem with it? Is he saying being illegal is ok? 
• Jim not realizing he’s been cheated in all of his investments makes him stereotyped as stupid. Mark Twain is offending blacks secretively, is this right?