Superstition and the friendship between Huck and Jim are at the center of chapters 8-11.

1. Chapter 10

1.1. What Comes of Handlin' Snake-skin

1.2. "You said it was the worst bad luck in the world to touch a snake-skin with my hands. Well, here's your bad luck! We've raked in all this truck and eight dollars besides. I wish we could have some bad luck like this every day, jim." (Huck)

1.3. Jim always talks about superstitious things, and in this chapter the superstition in particular was handlin snake skin. Huck didn't listen and saw for himself that this really brings bad luck.

2. Chapter 8

2.1. I Spare Miss Watson's Jim

2.2. "And so for three days and nights. No difference–just the same thing. But the next day I went exploring around down through the island."

2.3. Chapter eight talks about how Huck felt while living alone in the woods and also about his encounter with Jim, which made him happier because he was not alone anymore.

3. Chapter 9

3.1. The House of Death Floats by

3.2. "Jim this is nice, " I says. "I wouldn't want to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along another hunk of fish and some hot corn-bread." (Huck)

3.3. This chapter is about Huck and Jim's first loot of the house of death and the beginning of their friendship.

4. Chapter 11

4.1. They're After Us!

4.2. "What's your real name? Is it Bill, or Tom, or Bob?–or what is it?" (woman) "I reckon I shook like a leaf, and I didn't know hardly what to do." (Huck)

4.3. Huck dressed up as a little girl to find out what was going on in the town. However, he was unmasked and found out that there were people after Jim and him, so he ran to tell Jim that they had to leave the place.