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jboggsroxmisox
jboggsroxmisox
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High School - 11th Grade

Who is Pap Finn in "The Adventures of Huck Finn"?  What does he do?

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Posted by jboggsroxmisox on Thursday December 18, 2008 at 8:34 AM and tagged with characters, pap finn, the adventures of huckleberry finn.

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  1. enotechris Teacher
    Vocational

    eNotes Editor

    Pap Finn in Huck's drunken and abusive father,  who tries to extort Huck's money, and who eventually kidnaps him and imprisons him in a cabin in the woods near the river.  Huck escapes, and his father is discovered dead in a washed out house by Jim.

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    Posted by enotechris on Thursday December 18, 2008 at 8:43 AM


  2. ms-mcgregor Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    Pap Finn is the alcoholic father of Huckleberry Finn. He is a mean, abusive father who kidnaps his own son in order to get the money that Huck recovered from Injun Joe. He serves as a contrast to Jim, a black slave, who,ironically, is a much better father figure to Huck than his own white dad. After one night when Pap almost kills Huck in a drunken rage, Huck is forced to leave St. Petersburg in order to save his own life. When Huck decides he must leave Pap, he kills a pig and covers Pap's cabin in pig's blood in order to make Pap think Huck is dead. Both literally and metaphorically, this results in Huck's "death" to his old values and a rebirth to new values as he sets off on his journey with Jim down the Mississippi River.

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    Posted by ms-mcgregor on Thursday December 18, 2008 at 8:51 AM


  3. chuckett Student
    High School - 11th Grade

    Pap Finn is Huck's abusive and alcoholic father.

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    Posted by chuckett on Saturday December 20, 2008 at 10:33 AM