In the first chapter of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn recounts the end of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.  Huckleberry Finn is living with the widow, who is trying to civilize him.  Unfortunately, he does not want to be civilized.  Huckleberry Finn wants to wander and be free. The widow does not allow him to smoke, eat before prayer, or slouch.  He tried to run away, but Tom Sawyer asked him to come back.  At the end of the chapter, Huckleberry is meeting Tom in the woods at midnight.
             In chapter two, Tom, Huckleberry, and two or three other boys start a gang for
robbery and murder.  The boys take an oath to never tell the secrets of the
gang.  If a boy would tell the secrets, he and his family would be killed.  All but one of the boys officially signed their name, in blood, to the oath.  After deciding when to meet again, all of the boys went home.  Huckleberry climbed in his window at the crack of dawn.
            In chapter three, Miss Watson tries to teach Huckleberry how to pray.  Praying in unsuccessful for Huckleberry.  He does not understand spiritual gifts.  As for his gang, it split up after a month.  The gang only pretended to rob and kill travelers.  They pretended a Sunday School class was a group of Spanish merchants and Arabs.  The chapter also included the supposed death of Huckleberry's father.  Huckleberry does not believe that his father is dead and the idea of him still being alive scares him.



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