1.0Humane Hollywoodhttps://humanehollywood.orgHumane Hollywoodhttps://humanehollywood.orgrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="f4dbUP2PuQ"><a href="https://humanehollywood.org/production/adventures-of-huck-finn-the/">Adventures of Huck Finn, The</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://humanehollywood.org/production/adventures-of-huck-finn-the/embed/#?secret=f4dbUP2PuQ" width="600" height="338" title="“Adventures of Huck Finn, The” — Humane Hollywood" data-secret="f4dbUP2PuQ" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> https://humanehollywood.org/app/uploads/2020/02/8VpQZ43hdaTUmkMoe2CnED1Y2fS.jpg9601440Based on Mark Twain's original character and set on or along the shores of his beloved Mississippi River, this Huck Finn barely survives one adventure before he finds himself smack in the middle of another and another, each with a present day perspective. Huck is a handful for the two elderly women who care for him. He's a mischievous rascal whose vivid imagination inspires numerous tall tales. The Widow Douglass and her sister, Miss Watson, took the motherless, neglected boy in a year ago when he was deserted by an abusive alcoholic father. When his father learns Huck's mom's left him $600, he wants Huck back, but when he learns Huck can't collect the money until he's of legal age, he wants Huck dead so he can collect the inheritance as Huck's next of kin. Pap steals into the Douglass house in the middle of the night and abducts his son. He takes the struggling Huck to his cabin where, in a drunken rage, he tries to kill him. Huck survives the attack and the next day, when Pap awakens sober, he doesn't remember the ordeal of the night before. Huck decides the only way to have peace from Pap is to make him believe he's dead. He cleverly stages the circumstances of his demise, then runs away. Along the way he encounters another runaway, his best friend, Jim, a slave owned by Mrs. Watson. When a slave trader offered Mrs. Watson $800 for him, knowing times were tough, Jim was afraid she'd take it, so he ran away. He wants to travel to a free state so that he can make enough money to buy his family's freedom. Huck decides to help Jim and the pair set off by raft on the mighty Mississippi unaware there is a $400 reward for a runaway slave who is wanted for the murder of Huckleberry Finn.