Huckleberry Finn Chapter 12 Summary

Chapter 12 – 7/8/15 Huck and Jim fashioned a makeshift wigwam (a tent sort of thing) on the raft and travel by night, drifting down the river. A couple nights later, they pass the large city of St. Louis with its bright lights. The pair of them enjoy themselves as they buy, steal (or borrow), and hunt as they need. Huck feels guilty for stealing things so Jim compromises and says they should stop stealing three things, but stealing everything else is fine. As the two traveled down the river, they came across the wreck of a steamship during a thunderstorm. Huck was unable to resist the urge of exploring and plundering what’s left of the boat, even though Jim warns him against it. Huck is determined to do as he pleased since that’s what Tom Sawyer would do. Jim gave up his argument and the two climb aboard the wreck. They overhear three robbers as two of them are planning to kill the third. Huck stays to listen for more information while Jim scurries off. As it turns out, the two robbers think the third might rat

On a foggy night on the river, Huck, who’s in the canoe, was separated from Jim, who’s on the raft. Neither of the two could navigate nor see through the thick fog. They began whooping at each other in order to find one another, but it was no use. Frustrated, Huck decides to fall asleep. When the fog lifted and Huck woke up and found Jim asleep on the raft. As a ruse, Huck pretends that they had never separated and that Jim had dreamed the whole incident. Jim began to narrate and interpret his “dream” when he sees the leaves and the wreckage on the raft, and realizes that it was not a dream. He was extremely hurt by Huck’s joke since he was scared to death that Huck had died. Huck felt guilty for playing the trick and sincerely apologized to Jim, which was hard because of race (at the