Huck Finn
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DemariaStudyguide on January 17, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Huck Finn | the main character; son of local drunk; runs away to find himself |
| Jim | a runaway slave who accompanies Huck down the Mississippi River |
| Pap | Huck's abusive, alcoholic, broke father who returns early in the book to claim custody over him. |
| Judge Thatcher | Kindly town judge who watches over Huck's reward money |
| Widow Douglas | Town widow who tries to civilize Huck through kindness and religion |
| Miss Watson | Sister of the Widow Douglas. Tries to teach Huck to read and write |
| Tom Sawyer | Huck's civilized best friend who enjoys extravagant stories and schemes |
| The King | River con man who claims to be the disappeared heir to the French throne and takes control of Huck and Jim's raft |
| The Duke | River con man who claims to be the Duke of Bridgewater and takes control of Huck and Jim's raft. |
| Judith Loftus | Suspicious of Huck's disguise, she plays tricks which reveal his gender |
| Sarah Mary Williams | The name Huck uses when he meets Judith Loftus and pretends to be a girl |
| George Jackson | The false name Huck uses when he lives with the Grangerford's |
| Emmeline Grangerford | A young Grangerford who died in the feud and was an excellent poet. |
| Buck Grangerford | The youngest son of Col. Grangerford who becomes good friends with Huck but is later killed in the feud. |
| Colonel Grangerford | head of an aristocratic family engaged in a blood feud with its neighbors, the Shepardsons. |
| The Shepherdsons | Distinguished family who feuds with the Grangerfords. |
| Mary Jane Wilks | Joins in Huck's plan to outwit the Duke and Dauphin to retrieve her dead uncle's money |
| Harvey and William Wilks | the brothers the duke and king impersonate |
| Doctor Robinson | The only man who recognizes that the King and Duke are frauds when they try to pretend to be British. He warns the town but they ignore him. |
| Silas Phelps | Tom Sawyers uncle, and the farmer who purchases Jim from the King for $40 |
| Aunt Sally | Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes Huck for Tom when he was going to free jim from the Phelps |
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