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Why Is Huck Finn Too Cool

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Well, Huck isn't too cool with this, so he (naturally) fakes his own death and hides out on a nearby island, where he meets another runaway: the slave Jim, who's hiding out to avoid being sold down South and separated from his family. After running across a dead body, which Huck doesn't see, they decide to team up and then start out on what just might be the first American road movie, only via the Mississippi River rather than I-90. Cue a series of wacky hijinks/ life-threatening situations, like: Huck pretending to be a girl to get some info Accidentally ending up on a wrecked steamship full of thieves Being separated after a near-drowning Huck being taken in by the wealthy Grangerfords, who are embroiled in a deathly feud with another family
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