Honors English II - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Characters, Places, Other Stuff

Huck Finn

Narrator and main character of the novel; picaro

Tom Sawyer

Huck's civilized best friend who enjoys extravagant stories and schemes; Twain uses him as a satire of chivalrous Romanticism

Widow Douglas

widow who is Huck's guardian, gentler with Huck, talks about "good place" in reference to God, Huck afraid of disappointing her

Aunt Polly

Tom Sawyer's aunt and guardian

Judge Thatcher

Huck gives him $6,000 so Pap won't get it

Miss Watson

Widow Douglas's sister, Huck's orthography teacher, talks about "bad place" w/ religion

Jim

Runaway slave who joins Huck in his flight down the Mississippi

Joe Harper, Ben Roger

Tom's friends (first one is second captain of Tom Sawyer's "Gang of Robbers")

Elizabeth

Jim's deaf daughter (possibly deaf due to scarlet fever) whom he strikes and then repents for

Pap

Huck's abusive father

Sid Sawyer

Tom's younger brother (Tom pretends to be him at the Phelps')

Mrs. Judith Loftus

Huck visits her pretending to be a girl (she isn't fooled); she tells Huck that her husband has gone to Jackson's Island to look for Jim

Walter Scott

ship which wrecks, trapping two robbers; wrote Ivanhoe which Twain believed perpetuated sham grandeur and slavery in the South (pg. 92)

Jake Packard

didn't want to kill Jim Turner by shooting b/c wanted to let him drown after Walter Scott sank

Bill

wants to kill Jim Turner by shooting (in wreck of Walter Scott)

Jim Hornback

Rich Ferryboat captain, the captain Huck finds is jealous of him (pg. 91-93)

Miss Hooker

The made up niece of Jim Hornback, used in Huck's story to save the robbers (pg. 92-93)

George Jackson

fake name Huck gives to the Grangerfords

Grangerfords

Distinguished family who watches over Huck when Huck and Jim are separated (after raft is destroyed by ferry). The family maintains a deadly feud with the neighboring Shepherdsons.

Colonel Grangerford

gentleman, austere, stern, (ostensibly) civilized head of the Grangerford household (pg. 140-141)

Buck Grangerford

Grangerford boy (around Huck's age, 13-14 yr. old), dies

Sophia Grangerford

tells Huck to retrieve a Bible from the church w/ a note from H.S., later runs off with H.S.

Emmeline Grangerford

Grangerford daughter who wrote romantic epigraphs and died at 14

Harney Shepherdson

runs off with Sophia Grangerford

The Duke

claims o be the Duke of Bridgewater; pretends to be William Wilks

The King

claims to be the lost dauphin, King Louis XVII

Boggs

man shot for provoking Colonel Shepherdson

Colonel Sherburn

gives a speech on mob mentality in Arkansas after killing a man

Peter Wilks

dead Wilks brother, leaves behind rich estate (pg. 196)

George Wilks

other dead Wilks brother; Peter took care of his three daughters after he died (he died a year before Peter) (pg. 196)

Mary Jane Wilks

oldest, red-headed daughter of George Wilks, Huck tells her to go away after he tells her that The Duke and Dauphin aren't her uncle

Susan Wilks

middle daughter of George Wilks, scolds Joanna for grilling Huck

Joanna Wilks

cleft lip daughter of George Wilks, doesn't believe Huck's self-contradictory story (pg. 210-213)

William Wilks

"deef and dumb" (pg. 196) Wilks brother, played by The Duke

Harvey Wilks

Peter Wilks' brother who is an English clergyman (in Sheffield) (non-deaf one) (pg. 197)

Levi Bell

The lawyer who tries to ascertain the true heirs to the Wilks's fortune.

Dr. Robinson

Friend of Peter Wilks, a doctor who thinks the King and Duke are not Peter Wilks' brothers. No one believes him (at first).

Sally Phelps

Tom Sawyer's aunt (married to Silas Phelps); reprimands Silas for losing his shirt

Silas Phelps

Tom Sawyer's uncle, and the farmer who purchases Jim from the King for forty dollars

The Royal Nonesuch

play in which the king prances naked on all fours painted all over (pg. 188)

Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd

written by Emmeline Grangerford; Twain's criticism of sentimentality

Jackson's Island

island which Huck initially hides out on, where he meets Jim

Jim Turner

third robber whom the other two try to kill because he says he'll tell on them if they don't give him the money (this happens w/ wreck of Walter Scott)

Arkansas

state where Colonel Sherburn episode happens

St. Petersburg, Missouri

Huck's hometown

Hannibal, Missouri

real town upon which St. Petersburg is based

Cairo, Illinois

where Huck and Jim were trying to get to but overshoot