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Huckleberry Finn
The adventures of huckleberry Finn by mark twain is a very interesting book. It was about a young boy in Mississippi that just loves to get into trouble. He lived with his aunt Polly, which always disciplined him every time Huckle berry Finn got in trouble for any reason. He always hung out with Tom Sawyer, one of his best friends. They always went on some kind of adventure together, to any place. Tom, just like huckleberry, liked to cause trouble the same way. It started out like any other day for huckle berry Finn; he went to school, came home then went out to play with his friends. Then one night tom, huck, and all of their other friends in their area, and they made their own gang, they called it tom sawyers gang. Tom made up an oath for them to make and follow at all times. If they didn’t they had to pick someone to kill the one of the family members of that person that did not follow the oath, and they must not sleep or eat until they did what they were supposed to do.
One night, tom and huck were sneaking around, stealing and breaking into houses. They broke into this one house where they thought that everyone in the house was sleeping. It turns out that the house that they broke into was Miss Watson’s house, tom and huck were crawling on the floor of her kitchen when they hear a noise, and it was Miss Watsons slave, Jim. Tom and huck stayed very quiet so Jim wouldn’t know that they were there. Jim didn’t see them so he went back to bed, then right when he left, tom and huck ran out of the house.
The next day, huck woke up and he didn’t know where he was at it turns out that his father kidnapped him. His father kidnapped him because he wanted some of the money that Judge Thatcher was holding for huck. After he said that he went off to go fish, Huck found his chance to run. When he was running he ran in to Jim, Miss Watsons slave in the forest. He was running away from Miss Watson. Huck was going to return him to Miss Watson, and then he decided to take

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