Huckleberry Finn Chapter Summary

Sadly all good things must come to an end, and that is the case in the final chapters of Huckleberry Finn. After returning the gold to the dead man’s daughter and escaping the two thieves, Huck stole the money from the King and hid it in the dead man’s coffin. Huck and Mary Jane developed a plan to tell the townspeople everything, but that took a sudden change when they all of a sudden exhumed the body to truly identify the man and in turn, exposing the money. As the townspeople tried to figure out what to do, Huck slipped off in the raft right before the two frauds reached it. When Huck came to the next town, he found out that Jim had been turned by the king to the authorities for being a runaway slave. Luckily though Huck runs into good old Tom Sawyer to help him get Jim back. They are able to get Jim out, but Tom is shot in the process by a bullet. Tom treasures this bullet, since it didn’t kill him, and makes a necklace out of it. They give Jim $40 and set him on his merry way, freed. Tom goes to stay with his aunt and uncle, but Huck heads out west after refusing the offer that Tom’s aunt made to adopt him. After all, Huck isn’t having none of that civilizing.
This idea is a similar reminder of the Manifest Destiny. In the time this book is set in, heading west and starting a new life was a very prevalent idea. In fact, the government would even pay you to go and explore this land. The gold rush had not yet taken place, so maybe Huck will become a gold miner, and striking it rich. He has a habit of having fortunes falling into his hands, so it would certainly not be out of character. At the same time, this could be the demise of Huckleberry Finn. Thousands of Americans died on the journey west. Events such as the Donner Party were of the norm, so maybe he met his match at the hands of a violent and unforgiving mother nature. Regardless of what could happened, it would make for a great interesting