Episode 8 of Huck Finn (I think I got the chapters right)

Episode 8 The Wilks and The End of The Duke and The King (Chapters 24-31)

-They float down the river and encounter a man who tells them all about the deceased Peter Wilks and his brothers

-They go to Wilk’s home and pretend to be the brothers

-The Duke and king are left $6000 and the house

-They give everything to the nieces

-Doctor Robinson, a friend of Peter, says that the duke and the king are lying

-Mary Jane, the oldest daughter, is horrified at the Doctor and gives the money back to the king

-Huck steals the $6000 and hides it in Peter’s coffin

-At the funeral, a dog is barking in the cellar and the undertaker kills the dog

-The duke and the king say they’ll take the girls to England and sell off the estate and slaves

-The Wilks women are upset because the slave family had been separated

-The duke and the king start questioning Huck about the money but Huck blames the slaves on it

-Huck tells Mary Jane the truth about the duke and the king

-Huck tells her to stay at a friend’s house that night so he could have time to get away because the fate of Jim also hangs in the balance

-Huck leaves her a note with the location of the money

-The two real brothers show up

-A lawyer makes the men sign a piece of paper and they can’t decide who is the real set of brothers

-The real brother says he knows of a tattoo on his brother’s chest

-They dig up the body

-The crowd is so excited at the $6000 that Huck can escape and steals a canoe to get back to the raft

-The duke and the king show up in a boat and Huck cries because he didn’t want to deal with them

-The king is angry at Huck but the duke is more understanding

-They go to another town and Huck is going to ditch the two men but Jim had been sold by the King

-Huck realizes he will go to hell if he helps Jim escape and is fine with it (climax)