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Huck is one of Tom's best friends. After The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Huck describes his own adventure in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, including how he escapes from his drunken, abusive father, and how he met Jim, the runaway slave. Like Tom, Huck often engages in somewhat unruly behavior, but in reality he has a very kind heart and a deeply ...
Tom and Becky eventually stumble upon Injun Joe in McDougal's Cave. He traps them, but Tom and Becky manage to escape. Tom and Becky later discover the spot where Joe hid his treasure. Tom then finds an opening in the cave and asks Becky to get her father. Joe ultimately finds Tom and attempts to kill him before Huck suddenly shows up.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (also simply known as Tom Sawyer) is a novel by Mark Twain published on 9 June 1876 about a boy, Tom Sawyer, growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri , where Twain lived as a boy. [ 2 ]
When Judge Thatcher asks Tom to name the first two disciples appointed by Jesus, Tom responds, "David and Goliath," and everyone ridicules him. The next morning, Tom is tardy for school after stopping to talk with Huck. The schoolmaster makes Tom sit with the girls, which allows Tom a chance to flirt with Becky.
When Tom tries to stop him, Huck socks Tom in the jaw. Huck finds the gold, convinces Tom the Duke and King are no good and exposes the plot in front of the local sheriff and townspeople. His reward is a kiss from Mary Jane. Huck, Tom and Jim return home, where it seems Huck will try to make more of an effort to adjust to his new surroundings.
The United Artists release includes most of the sequences familiar to readers of the book, including the fence-whitewashing episode; Tom and Huckleberry Finn's attendance at their own funeral, after the boys, who were enjoying an adventure on a remote island, are presumed dead; the murder trial of local drunkard Muff Potter; and Tom and Becky Thatcher's flight through a cave as they try to ...
Tom leads Huck back to the cave to find the treasure box in Injun's Joe's lair. The Widder Douglas throws a lavish party in Tom and Huck's honor and the boys surprise everyone by marching in with bags of gold coins, worth at least $12,000. Weeks later, Tom finds Huck living inside an old barrel once more.
Huck and Tom is a surviving American comedy-drama film directed by William Desmond Taylor and released in 1918. The scenario by Julia Crawford Ivers is derived from Mark Twain 's novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).