Huck Finn Summary Of Chapter 6

Chapter six has Pap away from civilization to a cabin on the Illinois shore, and they travel on the Mississippi River. Pap treats Huck like a poorly while they live there. He beats him periodically and locks him in whenever he leaves for supplies. Huck enjoys the lazy, carefree life, but dislikes being hit by his father, so he eventually decides he needs to escape. He finds a rusty wood-saw and cuts out a small section of the log cabin wall that he covers with a blanket when his father is around. One night Pap gets really drunk and starts ranting about how the government is giving too many rights to blacks. He eventually starts hallucinating and chasing Huck around the cabin with a knife. Huck avoids him until his dad. At the start of chapter seven Pap awakes to see Huck pointing the gun
He takes it and hides it then comes up with a plan for escaping. When Pap leaves again the next night, Huck takes a bunch of their food supplies and drags them into the canoe. He kills a wild pig wandering by and smears its blood from the cabin into the woods. He also smears some blood on the axe that he used to smash in the door of the cabin and put in the corner. After tearing a hole in the bag of cornmeal, he leaves a trail leading into the woods then seals it up and puts it in the canoe. Once in the canoe, he floats down the river toward Jackson's Island. On the way, he falls asleep and then wakes up to find Pap drifting past him on their raft in the other direction. Luckily, it was so dark that Pap didn't see him. In chapter eight Huck rouses to the sound of a cannon going off. He peeks out and sees his family and friends floating by on a ferry-boat. Later he comes across the ashes of a recent camp fire and realizes that someone else is living on the island too; it's Jim. At first Jim thinks Huck is a ghost because he heard he had died, but once Huck convinces him that he's alive, Jim is glad to see