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ponki
ponki
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What does Pap want Huck to do, and how does his dad get legal possession of Huck in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

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Posted by ponki on Monday November 16, 2009 at 11:17 AM and tagged with huck, pap, the adventures of huckleberry finn.

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  1. bullgatortail
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        Huck fears all along that his father will return to St. Petersburg when he hears of his fortune in Mark Twain's novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and he soon does. After chastising Huck for thinking he is better than him, Pap demands all of Huck's money. Huck has already tried to give it away to Judge Thatcher, who seems to realize that there is some reason behind's Huck's sudden philanthropy. Although Judge Thatcher and the Widow Douglass attempted to gain legal control of Huck,

    ... it was a new judge... and he didn't know the old man. So he said courts mustn't interfere and separate families if they could help it.

    The new judge even "took him (Pap) into his own home" in the hopes of rehabilitating Huck's father and made him "sign a pledge" to change. But a powerful thirst prompted Pap to climb out a window, where he broke his arm and nearly froze to death.

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    http://www.enotes.com/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/
    http://www.enotes.com/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/chap...

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    Posted by bullgatortail on Monday November 16, 2009 at 8:18 PM