And then two men show up: the real brothers of the dead Peter Wilks.

Summary: Chapter 28 The next morning, Huck finds Mary Jane crying in her bedroom. Huck instructs Mary Jane to leave without seeing her “uncles,” for her innocent face would give away their secret. Huck leaves her a note with the location of the money. She promises to remember him forever and to pray for him.

Why does Huck tell Mary Jane the truth? He sees how sad she is about the separation of the slave families and tells her they will soon be back. What is special about Mary Jane? She is beautiful and Huck is so moved by her goodness that he resolves to expose the duke and king as the con men they are.

FYI Mary Jane Wilks is a character from the book “The adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and Becky Thatcher is a character from “The adventures of Tom Sawyer”. Both are two different novels by Mark Twain.

Pap is one of the only characters with no redeeming qualities. He symbolizes a path that could potentially be Huck’s, given that Huck was raised by him. Pap represents the ignorance of society and its reluctance to accept change.

Summary: Chapter 27 Huck hides the sack of money in Peter Wilks’s coffin as Mary Jane, crying, enters the front room where her dead father’s body lies. Huck, who doesn’t get another opportunity to remove the money safely, worries about what will happen to it. The next day, a dog barking in the cellar disrupts the funeral.

Even though Huck rightly takes the money from the con men, he does not give it to the Wilks sisters directly, and he still cannot bring himself to expose the con men to the Wilkses. It is not until two chapters later that Huck, seeing Mary Jane crying in her bedroom, blurts out that the duke and the dauphin are frauds.

Joanna’s sisters, Mary Jane and Susan, interrupt and instruct Joanna to be courteous to their guest, and she graciously apologizes. Huck feels terrible about letting such sweet women be swindled and resolves to get them their money back. He goes to the con men’s room to search for the money and hides when they enter.

In retrospect, Huck tells us that he has never seen Mary Jane since but that he thinks of her often. Shortly after Mary Jane leaves the house, Huck encounters Susan and Joanna and tells them that their sister has gone to see a sick friend.