The Advetures of Chuckleberry Flinn
I read a novel the other day. After reading it I thought, "I can do that." So here is a summary of the planned work.
The Adventures of Chuckleberry Flinn was a comical novel about a boy and a run away slave who travel down the Mississippi and encounter many problems they need to overcome. The first problem is getting away from Chuck's drunk bum of a dad who spends all his money on alcohol. You see Chuck has quite a bit of money, well 6000 dollars to be exact. Chuck gives this money to a man named judge Cratcher ( he is the judge of the town ). After Chuck's dad finds out about this he goes nuts and tries to get it from the judge. However unsuccessful, Chuck's father, pap, kidnaps Chuck from his temporary guardian, and hides out in a cabin, with Chuck, across the river from the own. Chuck's pap beats him so Chuck fakes his own death to get away from pap.
After successfully running away, he goes to Jackson island where he meets up with Tim. During there short stay on the island there is a storm which causes the Mississippi to flood. When the storm passes, Chuck and Tim find a house and a raft floating down the river. They take what the can from the house and the raft and go on a long adventure.
Well the town folk are not to happy about Tim running away so they go after him. But luckily Tim and Chuck get away on the raft they found. After there escape they start down the river with a plan to leave the raft at the mouth of the Ohio river and travel upstream to the free states. One night Chuck and Tim encounter some thick fog and miss the mouth of the Ohio river completely. The next night the raft is hit by a steamboat and Chuck and Tim separate.
Eventually Chuck ends up in the home of the Dangerfords where there is a Romeo and Juliet type of scene.The Dangerfords and the Leapherdsons are quarreling and a son of one family loves a daughter of the other, so when the 2 families find out there is a shootout and all the Grangerfords are killed, but eventually Tim shows up and they go down the river some more. A few days later they encounter some con men being chased by armed bandits, so Chuck and Tim rescue them and continue down the river with these 2 rapscallions. The 2 men pretend to be an English Duke and the long lost heir to the French throne. Well when traveling into down into one town they hear about the story of a man who has recently died and left everything to his 2 brothers, who should be arriving from England any day. So the Duke and the King enter the town claiming to be the 2 brothers. The guy's daughters who died welcomes them and they start selling everything they can. A few town people start to become skeptical so Chuck figures out a plant to get them caught, unfortunately the real brother shows up and the Duck and King get away with Chuck and Tim.
After a few more small scams the Duke and King sell Tim to a local farmer claiming him to have a big reward. Chuck finds out where Tim is being held and goes to free him. At the house where Tim is held a woman greets Chuck excitedly claiming Chuck to be his best friend Ron, who is coming to visit.. So Chuck travels up the road to find Ron before he can get to the house and he tells Ron his plan to break Tim free. But Ron has a different idea and Chuck hates this plan but does decide to go along with it. After a while of preparation Ron and Chuck break Tim free only to get chased down and have a bullet get lodged in Rons leg. So after Ron is nursed back to health and we find Tim back in chains, Ron explains that Tim was free all along, that his owner freed him upon her death. Glad to hear this Tim sets to go up river to free the rest of his family, but before he does that he tells Chuck not to worry about his father anymore because in thehouse that was floating down the river Tim found a dead man and it turned out to be Chuck's father, so being very relieved Chuck sets off for the west.
What do you all think? Should I continue? I don't think Mark Twain's estates will mind. This is America, right?. Novels have been written before. They don't have a lock on that idea. I will change a few things, as you can see from the summary, so It will not be exactly like the copyrighted version. Now off to the word processor to start.
Do a good turn daily!
Don
