Inside the story
Meet Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn is a shrewd, plain-spoken boy of about thirteen or fourteen who narrates his own story. Seeking escape from his abusive father, he takes to the Mississippi on a raft with Jim, a runaway enslaved man, while struggling with his conscience over helping him and using false identities along the way.
On the page
A barefoot boy of roughly thirteen or fourteen with a freckled, sunburned face and tangled, sandy hair usually stuffed under a battered old hat. He wears cast-off, oversized rags and patched clothes, often smudged with river mud, and looks uncomfortable whenever the widow puts him in stiff, starched 'civilized' clothes.
