・Chapter Sixteen: The boys, still on the island, continue to feel homesick. Joe and Tom also try smoking, to seem cool, l but feel extremely ill afterwards. This proves that both Tom and Joe are obsessed with how other people see them. Later, a storm hits the island, and their shelter is destroyed, adding to their misery.
・Chapter Seventeen: The boys decide to crash their funeral, and are startled by the kind words of the peers who had disliked them. They come out of the shadows at the end of their service, and are embraced by their parents. Huckleberry, an orphan, is hugged tightly by Aunt Polly.
Chapter Eighteen: Tom is now worshipped by his peers, but Aunt Polly is upset with him for leaving her. In an attempt to console her, Tom reaccounts everything she said when he eavedropped, but tells her it was a dream he had at the island. Aunt Polly instantly cries and forgives him. At school, Becky Thatcher is jealous of Amy Lawerence (the last girl Tom was "engaged" to) so she reads books with Tom's most hated enemy: Alfred Temple. Tom and Becky now hate each other.