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Huck Finn Timeline
By: Dexter Northcutt
Chapters 1-3
• Symbol: Candle• Quote: “I didn’t need anyone to tell me that
that was an awful dang sign and would fetch me some bad luck…”
• Analysis: This is foreshadowing future events of the book and how superstition plays a major part in this time.
Chapters 4-5
• Symbol: Hairball • Quote: “He said there a spirit inside of it and it
knowed everything”• Analysis: This is also foreshadowing Huck’s
meeting with his father and future events that take place in the book.
Chapters 6-7
• Symbol: Raft• Quote: “Well, all at once here comes a
canoe…”• Analysis: The canoe symbolizes Huck’s chance
at freedom from his abusive father and the start of his adventure.
Chapter 8
• Symbol: Campfire• Quote: “…and all of a sudden I bounded right
onto the ashes of a campfire.”• Analysis: This represents the start of Huck and
Jim working together on a common goal.
Chapter 9
• Symbol: Log Cabin• Quote: “Just before daylight, here we comes a
from house down.” • Analysis: The house is very helpful to Huck’s
and Jim’s adventure and helps lead to Huck’s discovery of what happens after they disappeared.
Chapter 10• Symbol: Rattlesnake• Quote: “And he said that handling a snake-skin
was such awful bad luck that maybe we hadn’t got to the end of it yet.”
• Analysis: This is foreshadowing later events of the book and showing how Huck became more superstitious after Jim’s accident.
Chapter 11
• Symbol: Lead tie• Quote: “And, mind you, when a girl tries to
catch something in her lap she throws her knees apart.”
• Analysis: This shows how wise Mrs. Coftus was and her smart ways to reveal Huck was actually a boy.
Chapter 12
• Symbol: Steamboat• Quote: “It was a steamboat that had killed
herself on a rock.”• Analysis: This is the first major event that Huck
and Jim would get themselves into during their crazy adventures.
Chapter 13
• Symbol: Lantern• Quote: “We seen a light now away down to
the right, on shore.”• Analysis: This shows Huck’s good character as
he came up with a plan to help the criminals.
Chapter 14• Symbol: Crown• Quote: “…dey ain’t no kings here, is dey
Huck?”• Analysis: This chapter exploits the lack of
education of slaves and has the universal truth of you cannot believe everything you’re told.
Chapters 15-18
• Symbol: Gold Coin• Quote: “Here, I’ll put a twenty-dollar gold
piece on this board…”• Analysis: This shows a major shift in Huck’s
character as he no longer feels like he needs to conform to society and turn in Jim.
Chapters 19-21
• Symbol: Note• Quote: “So I give it a shake, and out drops a
little piece of paper with “HALF PAST TWO” wrote on it with a pencil.”
• This foreshadows later events and is a parody of Romeo and Juliet.
Chapters 22-25
• Symbol: Wig• Quote: “He dressed Jim up in King Lear’s outfit
– it was a long curtain – calico gown, and a white horse-hair wig and whiskers.”
• This is the only thing that was keeping Jim from possibly being caught and sold.
Chapter 26
• Symbol: Dictionary• Quote: “I see it warn’t nothing but a
dictionary, so I laid my hand on it and said it. She then looked a little better satisfied.”
• Analysis: This shows how gullible people can be to empty promises and early suspicion of the sisters.
Chapter 27• Symbol: Moneybag• Quote: “I tucked the money-bag in under the
lid, just down beyond where his hands was crossed.”
• Analysis: The moneybag represents Huck’s attempt to help the sisters from the king and the duke.
Chapter 28
• Symbol: Red Cross• Quote: “Well, measles, and whooping-cough,
and erysiplas, and consumption, and yaller janders, and brain fever, and I don’t know what all.”
• Analysis: This is Huck using his lying skills to help Mary Jane.
Chapter 29
• Symbol: Blue Arrow• Quote: “It’s jest a small, thin, blue arrow-
that’s what it is; and if you don’t look clost, you can’t see it.”
• Analysis: This is a turning point because it shows where Huck has a chance to escape the king and the duke.
Chapters 30-35
• Symbol: Trunk• Quote: “Take my trunk in your wagon, and let
on it’s your’n…”• Analysis: This is the beginning of Tom’s
importance in the book and their pact to help Jim.
Chapters 36-37
• Symbol: Knife• Quote: “So we dug and dug with the case-
knives till most midnight.”• Analysis: This represents the pointlessness of
Tom’s ideas to help free Jim.
Chapters 38-39
• Symbol: Harp• Quote: “A jews-harp’s plenty good enough for
a rat. All animals love music.”• Analysis: This is satire but showing how people
use harder means to accomplish simple tasks.
Chapters 40-The Last Chapter• Symbol: Bullet• Quote: “We was all glad as we can be, but Tom
was the gladdest of all because he had a bullet in the calf of his leg.”
• Analysis: This represents the success of rescuing Jim but also the hardships that came afterwards.