The exposition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is when we are first introduced to Huck. Huck is a teenage boy who lives with a woman in St. Petersburg, Missouri on the banks of the Mississippi River named Widow Douglas, who took in Huck because he had no home, and her sister, Miss Watson, who is very hard on Huck. We also see Miss Watson’s slave, Jim, for the first time. Jim is a slave for Miss Watson who is very nice. Huck’s daddy is the town drunk, and has come back into town to claim Huck and get the money ($6,000) that Huck and Tom Sawyer, Huck’s best friend, found hidden by a band of robbers at the end of the Tom Sawyer book. The Widow Douglas tries to civilise Huck, and Miss Watson tries to teach Huck to read and spell. One night, Huck goes out his bedroom window at night to play robbers with Tom. …show more content…
His father forces Huck to give him money so he can go buy liquor to get drunk on. He also tells Huck to quit trying to be better than him, and makes him stop going to school, which Miss Watson and Widow Douglas had made him attend. One night, Huck is kidnapped by his father and taken to a cabin near the banks of the river. Huck enjoys living with his father at first because there are no rules, but Huck’s father beats him when he gets drunk, and attempts to murder him one night because he is so drunk he does not know what is real and not real. The next day, Huck fakes his own death and sets out on a canoe to Jackson’s Island, and island in the middle of the river between Missouri and Illinois. There, he finds Miss Watson’s slave Jim, who also escaped the night Huck did after he heard that Miss Watson was going to sell him down the river to New Orleans. At the island, a big rain comes one evening, causing the river to rise an abundant amount. A raft flows by the island, which Jim and Huck catch and bring back to the