The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapters 3-6

One day Huck is outside. He sees tracks in the snow! but from who? Apparently, someone came up to the garden and then stopped before going inside. Examining one of the tracks, Huck sees a cross in the heel made out of nails a sign to keep off the devil. After seeing this, Huck hauls it to Judge Thatcher's as fast as he can, with one eye over his shoulder the whole way. Clearly, he knows something we don't. When he gets to the Judge's, he says he wants to give him all the money! The Judge wants to know why, but Huck skirts the issue on the grounds that he doesn't want "to tell no lies." On his way back home, he decides it's best to go see Jim and then explains to us who and what Jim is. So Huck goes to Jim to have his fortune read by the magic hairball. He says he saw his Pap's tracks in the snow and now he's scared. After Jim tells Huck about his "fortune" Huck decides to go home but when he does Huck finds his abusive, drunk Pap sitting on his bed in his bedroom!  Pap does what all alcoholic, abusive fathers do: he drinks and abuses Huck of course. He's also trying to stop his son from gaining an education, life, civilized upbringing, culture, knowledge, and basically anything that he himself doesn't have. He demands that Huck stop going to school and stop learning about religion and even tears up one of his schoolbooks. Oh, and hewants all of Huck's money that he found. Until now, (Chapter 6) Huck wasn't the biggest fan of going to school. But now that his father told him not to, he's a regular teacher's pet basically. His father finally kidnaps him and takes him to live on the river in a lovely little shack with all the modern luxury of a swinging door and floorboards.Huck gets regular beatings He can't run off, because every time Pap leaves he locks Huck inside. Finally, during one awesome instance of solitary confinement, Huck finds an old wood-saw and goes to work at a slab of wood on the back wall of the cabin. That night, Pap gets roaring drunk and comes back home absolutely covered in mud from lying in the gutter. Pap continues to drink, fall down, hurt himself, and act the poster child for racism and bigotry. Huck falls asleep and wakes up to see Pap screaming about snakes and the devil.After some more sleeping, crying, and screaming, Pap jumps up and starts chasing Huck around the cabin, calling him the "Angel of Death."When he finally passes out again, Huck picks up the rifle and sits down with it pointed at Pap. You know, just in case he wakes up and tries to murder his son again.