<Li> "Pap" Finn, Huck's father, a brutal alcoholic drifter . He resents Huck getting any kind of education . His only genuine interest in his son involves begging or extorting money to feed his alcohol addiction . </Li> <Li> Judith Loftus plays a small part in the novel--being the kind and perceptive woman whom Huck talks to in order to find out about the search for Jim--but many critics believe her to be the best drawn female character in the novel . </Li> <Li> The Grangerfords, an aristocratic Kentuckian family headed by the sexagenarian Colonel Saul Grangerford, take Huck in after he is separated from Jim on the Mississippi . Huck becomes close friends with the youngest male of the family, Buck Grangerford, who is Huck's age . By the time Huck meets them, the Grangerfords have been engaged in an age - old blood feud with another local family, the Shepherdsons . </Li> <Li> The Duke and the King are two otherwise unnamed con artists whom Huck and Jim take aboard their raft just before the start of their Arkansas adventures . They pose as the long - lost Duke of Bridgewater and the long - dead Louis XVII of France in an attempt to over-awe Huck and Jim, who quickly come to recognize them for what they are, but cynically pretend to accept their claims to avoid conflict . </Li>

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