Pap Finn
Huck's abusive, drunken, father and the main antagonist of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He vanished but shows up at the beginning of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and forcibly takes his son to live with him. He also tries to sue Judge Thatcher to get the six thousand dollars that Huck gave away to him, and confiscated whatever money Huck has in his pocket, using it to get drunk. He is infuriated that his son would try to amount to more than he did, and live in better conditions than he did. He demands that Huck quit school, threatening him with whipping. Soon after Huck escapes, Pap Finn goes off to search for him and doesn't return. At the end of the book, Jim reveals to Huck, that the corpse they found in the abandoned house early in the book was actually the corpse of his father. Pap Finn's backstory is explored in the 2007 book by Jon Clinch Finn: A Novel.
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“Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn’t roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get a chance, because if you don’t want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain’t ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn’t want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.”
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