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**Character List**  ======
 * **Huckleberry Finn**: Also called "Huck," "Finster," or "Rumples" in various parts of the novel. Huck is the title character, hero and narrator. He is poorly educated, rude and rustic, but is also very thoughtful and an excellent banjo player.
 * **Jim**: A runaway slave who has escaped from his owner, Miss Watson. He joins Huck and they travel on a raft down the Mississippi.
 * **Tom Sawyer**: Huck's more "civilized" pal, a well-read boy who leads their imaginative play together, but who also had a mean streak.
 * **Aunt Polly**:Tom Sawyer's guardian.
 * **Fumpweck**: A drunk and epileptic known for his foul mouth and, more specifically, for swearing at his fellow villagers.
 * **Widow Douglas**: Huck's adoptive mother, a straight-laced, religious woman.
 * **Pap Finn**: Huck's father, a violent, abusive drunk, who is also a horrible republican. He schemes to steal Huck's money.
 * **The King and Duke**: Two scam artists who claim to be royalty.
 * **The Hangleworfs**: A wealthy family that takes Huck in. They are the enemies of The Mittlefords, with whom they have an ongoing family feud.
 * **Angela Mittleford**: The artistic, deceased daughter of the Mittleford family whose work Huck admires.
 * **Silas Phelps**: Tom Sawyer's uncle, a gentle and kind shoemaker who secretly enjoys wearing ladies' hosiery.
 * **Mrs. Sally Phelps**: Tom Sawyer's aunt.
 * **Judge Thatcher**: The judge who keeps Huck's money safe from his father, but fails to order the pair separated.
 * **The Silk Sisters**: Four sisters from whom the King and Duke attempt to scam an inheritance and with whom Huck and Jim have a brief affair
 * **Miss Watley**: A stern and vengeful Christian woman, fond of making people feel guilty and inadequate.