huck finn characters Flashcards
Huck’s abusive, alcoholic, broke father who returns early in the book to claim custody over him. When Huck can no longer take his father’s abuse, he runs away and begins his journey down the river with Jim.
Pap
The British brother of Peter Wilks whom the Duke impersonates until the real William Wilks arrives.
William Wilks
The second eldest daughter of the deceased George Wilks.
Susan Wilks
The dead man whose brother the King impersonates.
Peter Wilks
The eldest daughter of the deceased George Wilks, a red-headed girl whom Huck starts to fall in love with. She becomes convinced that the King is her real uncle and not a fraud until Huck tells her the truth.
Mary Jane Wilks
The youngest daughter of the deceased George Wilks, she is distinguishable by her harelip.
Joanna Wilks
The British brother of Peter Wilks whom the King impersonates until the real Harvey Wilks arrives.
Harvey Wilks
The sister of the Widow Douglas. She tries to teach Huck how to read and write properly. Jim is her slave. He runs away from her after hearing that she wanted to sell him to a trader from down south.
Miss Watson
One of the robbers on the shipwrecked steamboat.
Jim Turner
An eminent citizen in the town who is respected and well-liked. He fights to protect Huck’s money when Pap returns to claim Huck and steal his money.
Judge Thatcher
The young man who runs away with Miss Sophia Grangerford.
Harney Shepherdson
Huck Finn’s best friend. Tom loves make believe games and sets up a band of robbers. Later he and Huck live together with Tom’s Aunt Sally and Huck pretends to be Tom while Tom pretends to be his younger brother Sid.
Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer’s younger brother. Tom pretends to be Sid while he and Huck Finn are living with Sally Phelps.
Sid Sawyer
A member of Tom’s robber band.
Ben Rogers
The only man who recognizes that the King and Duke are frauds when they try to pretend to be British. He warns the town but they ignore him.
Doctor Robinson
Tom’s aunt who shows up at the end to find out what tricks Tom has been playing on her kinfolk. She reveals the true identities of Tom and Huck to her sister and spoils their attempt to steal Jim out of slavery by explaining he is already free.
Aunt Polly
Tom Sawyer’s uncle, and the farmer who purchases Jim from the King for forty dollars.
Silas Phelps
Tom Sawyer’s aunt. She is married to Silas Phelps and initially mistakes Huck for Tom Sawyer.
Sally Phelps
The woman whom Huck visits to gather news while pretending to be a girl. She tells him that she suspects Jim is hiding on Jackson’s Island. Huck barely has time to get back to Jim and get them both off the island.
Mrs. Judith Loftus
The elder of the two con men with whom Huck is forced to travel. He plays the naked man in the Royal Nonesuch and is the man who sells Jim as a runaway slave. He is later tarred and feathered along with the Duke.
The King
A runaway slave who accompanies Huck Finn down the Mississippi River.
Jim
The false name Huck uses when he lives with the Grangerford’s.
George Jackson
A member of Tom’s robber band
Joe Harper
The man who starts rallying a mob to kill Colonel Sherburn after Sherburn shoots and kills Boggs.
Buck Harkness
The eldest son of the Grangerford family.
Tom Grangerford
The daughter of Col. Grangerford who runs off with Harney Shepherdson and rekindles the feud.
Miss Sophia Grangerford
A daughter of the Grangerford’s. She passed away before Huck’s arrival, but used to create wonderful paintings and poetry.
Emmeline Grangerford
The father of the Grangerford house and the man who invites Huck to live with the family. He is killed in the feud.
Col. Grangerford
A daughter of Col. Grangerford.
Miss Charlotte Grangerford
The youngest son of Col. Grangerford who becomes good friends with Huck but is later killed in the feud.
Buck Grangerford
A son of Col. Grangerford.
Bob Grangerford
The main character of the story. He runs away and travels down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave, Jim, as his companion.
Huck Finn
The younger of the two con men and the man who invents the Royal Nonesuch. He is later tarred and feathered in Pikesville.
The Duke
The widow who takes Huck into her home and tries to “civilize” him. It is her home that he leaves when Pap kidnaps him and takes him to the log cabin.
Widow Douglas
A young man who reveals the entire story about the Wilks’s fortune to the King.
Tim Collins
A young man who reveals the entire story about the Wilks’s fortune to the King.
Boggs
The false name the King uses when addressing Tim Collins, the young man bound for Orleans who tells the King everything about the Wilks family.
Rev. Elexander Blodgett
The lawyer who tries to ascertain the true heirs to the Wilks’s fortune.
Levi Bell
Huck’s name when the King pretends to be the British brother of Peter Wilks.
Adolphus
