Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

A boy lights out. A man escapes slavery. The river carries both of them into other people’s lies.

Huck Finn stages his own death and takes a raft down the Mississippi with Jim. Shore keeps interrupting: a blood feud, a wreck, a mob, two frauds selling royalty, and a family grieving hard enough to believe them. Huck has been taught what society calls right. The journey keeps showing him who pays for it.

The comedy talks fast. The moral decision arrives in Huck’s own grammar.