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Mark Twain. Summary. Chapters 40–43. Previous Next. Summary: Chapter 40. Aunt Sally and Uncle Silas, rattled by the mysterious letter, send Tom and Huck to bed right after supper. Later that night, Huck sees that fifteen uneasy local farmers with guns have gathered in the front room of the house.
Huck and Tom trick the Phelpses when preparing for Jim’s escape, much to Aunt Sally’s fury and Uncle Silas’s innocent befuddlement. Aunt Sally offers to adopt Huck at the end of the novel, but he refuses to be “sivilized” by anyone. Sally and Silas Phelps Quotes in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Silas and Sally Phelps. Tom Sawyer’s aunt and uncle, whom Huck coincidentally encounters in his search for Jim after the con men have sold him. Sally is the sister of Tom’s aunt, Polly. Essentially good people, the Phelpses nevertheless hold Jim in custody and try to return him to his rightful owner.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.
- Mark Twain, Gerald Graff, James Phelan
- 1884
Huckleberry Finn , often overlooked, embodies the complexity with which Twain viewed religion and his recognition that those who adhere to its tenets can also be pawns in an unjust system: "Uncle" Silas Phelps.1 While he is far from perfect, Twain establishes Uncle Silas- though his appearances are few
Uncle Silas is the husband of Aunt Polly, described as an 'oldish man.' He is enthusiastic about Tom's (Huck's) arrival. Huck has much respect for him: 'He was the innocentest, best old soul...
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family of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Saw-yer, Detective are among Mark Twain's favorite people, and Uncle Silas Phelps is his finest portrait of a good man. He says in the Autobiography that the Phelps place is patterned after that of his uncle John Quarles in Monroe County, Missouri, where he spent the summers of his boyhood until
