Finn, Huckleberry

ハックルベリー・フィン

Huck is the son of a vagrant drunkard. He likes to loaf around and go on adventures with Tom Sawyer. At the end of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck is adopted by the Widow Douglas after saving her life. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which is in some ways a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the widow tries to "civilize" the newly wealthy Huck. Huck is kidnapped by his father but manages to fake his own death and escape to Jackson's Island, where he happens to meet Jim, a slave owned by the Widow Douglas's sister, Miss Watson. Jim is fleeing for his freedom because he has learned that Miss Watson intends to "sell him South" for eight hundred dollars. The two travel down the Mississippi River on a raft, hoping to secure freedom from slavery for Jim and freedom from his father and controlling foster parent for Huck.
The character of Huck Finn was based on Tom Blankenship, the real-life son of a drunkard who lived in a "ramshackle" house near the Mississippi River, behind the house where the author grew up in Hannibal, Missouri.