Widow Douglas' life is saved by HuckleberryFinn after he followed Injun Joe and a confederate of his and realised they were plotting to murder her.
HuckleberryFinn is the protagonist of Adventures of HuckleberryFinn.
In the book's sequel, The Adventures of HuckleberryFinn, Huck is kidnapped by his father, but soon manages to escape; the rest of the book tells of his search for a way to avoid his father until the climax.
Adventures of HuckleberryFinn (1885) by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) is commonly accounted as one of the first Great American Novels.
The Adventures of HuckleberryFinn is also a great example of a bildungsroman.
HuckleberryFinn, the son of a worthless, drunken, poor white, is troubled with many qualms of conscience because of the part he is taking in helping the negro to gain his freedom.