Tom Sawyer Chapter Summaries

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Chapter 1
The book starts off telling us that you may know Huck from another book called the adventures of Tom Sawyer. Which was also written by Mark Twain. In the first chapter, we figured out the Tom and Huck found a stash of gold that some robbers stole and hid in a cave. They both got $6,000 a piece. After they both got their shares of the money they had Judge Thatcher put it into a trust, in the bank. Once Huck was known for finding the treasure Widow Douglass adopted Huck. Widow Douglass also tried to civilize Huck, but Huck didn't want to be with Douglass so he ran away. Huck took all of his belongings with him, but nothing that Douglass gave him. After Huck ran away he went to join up with Tom Sawyer and his new gang of robbers. The …show more content…

Huck trips in the garden and Jim, one of Miss Watson;s slaves hears him from inside the house. After they know that Jim Heard them, they crouch down in the garden trying not to get caught. All the sudden Huck gets itchiness feelings all over his body so its hard for him to stay still. Jim comes out of the house and yells i'm not leaving until I figure out what that noise is in the garden. A few minutes after that Jim the slave falls asleep. Tom tells Huck that they should tie him up, but Huck said no. So instead the play a prank on him and take his hat and put it on a branch right above him. After Jim wakes up, he starts to tell everyone that the witches got him and started to fly around him as he fell asleep. Thats when the witches put the hat above Jim. After Jim starts telling everybody his tale Tom and Huck go meet up with the rest of the gang in the cave. Tom says that he has an announcement for the gang, the announcement was that Tom named their gang the Tom Sawyer’s Gang. The gang stuck to that name and under oath they all signed their names in blood to show that they mean business and will do whatever needs to be done. After the gang signed the oath Huck ran back home as fast as he could to get into bed before

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