Huckleberry Finn Characters

Aunt Polly

Tom Sawyer's aunt

The Widow Douglas

Women who takes Huck in and tries to civilize him. She gives him clothes and food and tries to teach him religion. Took snuff, but wouldn't let Huck smoke. Tries to get him away from his father after he comes back to town. Kind to Huck, good nature.

Miss Watson

Tolerable slim old maid (never married) who comes to live with Widow Douglas, has goggles (glasses) and tries to teach spelling to Huck. She owns Jim but she was going to sell him to 'Orleans for $800 to a slave trader, even though she didn't want to.

Jim

The superstitious slave of Miss Watson, Huck and Tom play a prank where they hung is hat on the branch and left a nickel. He has a hairball from the stomach of an ox, runs away to Jackson's Island and joins Huck

Tom Sawyer

Huck's best friend with a vivid imagination. He creates the band of robbers, who murder and plunder. He sees Arabs, Spanish soldiers elephants and camels in a Sunday school picnic.

Joe Harper

One of the boys in the band of robbers

Ben Rodgers

Another boy in the band of robbers, he questions Huck's commitment and doesn't like the idea of ransom.

Little Tommy Barns

Boy who fell asleep at the robbers meeting and wanted to quite, but they payed him off with five cents

Huck Finn

Protagonist, who has 6,000 dollars plus interest and lives with Widow Douglas. He fakes his death to get away from Pap and sells all his money to Judge Thatcher. He goes to Jackson Island and finds Jim. Together they journey.

Pap

The father of Huck who everybody thought drowned. He loves whiskey and beating Huck and has a cross on the bottom of his left boot. The new Judge reforms him, but he goes back to being a drunk. He wants Huck's money and complains about the government.

Judge Thatcher

Kind Judge who keeps Huck's money for him and invests it for him, he get's it sold to him to keep it from Pap. Tries to get Huck away from Pap but fails and goes to court over the money.

New Judge

A man who tries to reform Pap, and doesn't want to split up the Huck's family.

Sarah Mary Williams

Huck's girl disguise with Mrs. Loftus, which she soon sees through. Was supposedly looking for uncle Abner Moore because her mom was sick.

Mrs. Judith Loftus

lady who inadvertently lets Huck know that her husband and some men are headed to Jackson's Island to search for Jim, he comes to her cabin and she catches him in his lies and gives him advice about "being a girl."

George Peters

Huck's boy disguise with Mrs. Loftus, a farm boy who's run away from his mean old farmer, looking for his uncle Abner Moore.

Jim Turner

Robber on the Walter Scott, the one the other men want to kill

Bill

Robber on the Walter Scott

Jake Packard

Robber on the Walter Scott who has a special plan for killing Jim Turner

Jim Hornback

Rich Ferryboat captain, the ferryman Huck finds is jealous of him

Miss Hooker

The made up niece of Jim Hornback, used in Huck's story to save the robbers

Bill Whiple

Made up name of a boy in Huck's story to save the robbers

King Sollermun

Wise king Huck and Jim talk about one day. He solved the issue of the two woman and the baby saying he would cut it in half.

Walter Scott

The name of the Ferryboat that was wrecked and robbed, discovered by Huck and Jim. This is an example of Satire.

Mary Anne

Huck's made up sister in history to scare the men away from his raft

John and Parker

The men who are hunting for runaway slaves that Huck scares away with his story about small pox

George Jackson

Huck's disguise with the Grangerfords

Col. Grangerford

Father of the Grangerford children; has a nice house and furnishings, but doesn't know why he's in a feud

Buck

youngest Grangerford; about Huck's age; dies in feud but had become very close with Huck

Emmeline Grangerford

dead daughter of the Grangerfords; wrote death poetry and chased ambulances

Miss Charlotte

Grangerford who was about 25, she was beautiful, tall, and proud like her father, but rather stern

Sophia Grangerford

Daughter of Col. Grangerford and is in love with Harney Shepherdson, she was about 20 and very sweet

Rachel Grangerford

The mother Grangerford who cared for Huck

Harney Sheperdson

A young Sheperdson that runs away with Miss Sophia, Buck had the chance to shoot him, but missed

Old Baldy Sheperdson

A Sheperdson who was killed earlier after he killed Buck's cousin Bud

Jack

The slave the Grangerfords assign to Huck

Cousin Joe

Cousin who was fighting with Buck and was killed at the same time

Duke (of Bridgewater)

young swindler, in trouble for selling toothpaste that took the enamel off teeth; prints up a bill of Jim as a runaway slave so that the group can travel during the day

King

old swindler, ran temperance revivals but drank and got in trouble for it, pretends to be a reformed pirate

Boggs

drunk Arkansas man who gets shot

Col. Sherburn

Arkansas man who shoots the town drunk; a mob comes after him for a lynching

Buck Harkness

"half a man" (according to Sherburn) who comes along with the mob to lynch Sherburn

Adolphus

Huck's alias when he is at the house of Peter Wilks.

Alexander Blodgett

The king's alias when he is finding out information about Peter Wilks.

Peter Wilks

Father of Mary Jane Wilks and her sisters. Dead. Left a lot of money to his daughters

Harvey Wilks

Peter Wilks' brother who lives in England and is rather old and preaches, played by the king

George Wilks

Peter Wilks' brother who is dead.

William Wilks

Peter Wilks' brother who is deaf and dumb, played by the duke

Mary Jane Wilks

Oldest daughter of Peter Wilks. Around 19 years old. Huck really likes her, she's red headed

Susan Wilks

Middle daughter of Peter Wilks. Around 15 years old.

Joanna Wilks

Youngest daughter of Peter Wilks. Around 14. Huck calls her "Hare-lip".

Levi Bell

Friend of Peter Wilks, a lawyer

Dr. Robinson

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

Silas Phelps

Farmer who bought Jim for 40 dollars, not the 200 and plans to get the reward by returning him to the plantation near New Orleans. Tom's uncle and wife of Sally

Abram Foster

Fake name of a farmer the duke made up, to keep the truth about Jim from Huck

Aunt Sally

Tom Sawyer's aunt. Wife to Uncle Silas. Lives on a farm in Arkansas.

Sid Sawyer

Tom Sawyer's alias while at Silas Phelps' farm. He can't be "Tom" because Uncle Silas and Aunt Sally think that Huck is Tom Sawyer. Sid is Tom's brother.