Huck Finn Episodes Summary

Episode 1: Tom's Gang (chapters 1-4)
a. Huck and Tom want to be a gang
b. They talk about murdering people, but only pretend to
c. They share stories about robbing gypsies who are rich but they actually turn out to be a group of Sunday school children
Episode 2: Huck and Pap (chapters 5-7)
a.Huck escapes his alcoholic abusive father who has basically imprisoned him in a cabin and floats up the river to Jackson island.
b. He then stages his own death hoping his father will not come looking for him.
c. Huck gives money he has acquired to Judge Thatcher to prevent his father from stealing it and spending it on whiskey.

Episode 3: Jackson Islands (chapters 8-11)
 a. Huck and Jim run off to the islands seeking Jim's freedom
b. They come across a flooded house with a murdered man inside 
c. They then rummage the house and take whatever they please, assuming the dead man will not mind
d. Huck runs off to St. Petersburg
e. Disguised as a girl, Huck encounters a woman who shares that her husband is looking for Jim.

Episode 4: Huck and Jim on the River (chapters 12-16)
 a. Huck and Jim continue down the river to encounter a group of gangsters on a boat
b. Two of which have subdued their accomplice who has not paid his fair share of loot
c. They continue on after being cut loose, and Huck boards a different raft that is holding dancing men
d. The men share stories of a haunted barrel that is seemingly following them
e. One man jumps into the water and opens the barrel, finding a small dead infant.
f. Dick Allbright confesses that it is his child and the barrel has followed him ever since he strangled his child not intending to kill it
h. Huck then encounters men who ask who is on the raft
i. Knowing that Jim is on the boat, he shares that it is his father who has small pox
f. The men leave and tell Huck to be on his way