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claiming Twains work was a masterpiece (Smiley). Smiley then moves on to illustrate the history of Hucks writing. She indicate...

scene that demonstrates the main thematic thrust of the story, Huck writes to Miss Watson telling her of Jims whereabouts. After w...

for a marriage proposal will cause scholars to revise previous assessments that Twain was ineffective in representing women and un...

she should behave. She goes to a home where she is treated very well and ultimately has a puppy of her own and this makes her life...

about a man he knew. Twain immediately presents the reader with the fact that he believes this particular individual may not even ...

that perhaps he had been allowed to do exactly what he wanted. One can imagine that Huck achieved a sense of self-reliance and the...

Colette and sing happy songs about flowers and birds. (point one) But, of course, flower songs are not for grown ups. Now, the so...

is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and...

what her life has been. This view of Granny life offers a contradiction to every misogynist preconception of womanhood that was ev...

he knows of an undertow there which will hold her back against the gale and save her. For just pure woodcraft, or sailorcraft, or ...

matches, books and pens and become known as a man more powerful than the great Merlin (A Connecticut Yankee, 2002; Twain, 1979). T...

culture to some extent. The culture is implicit in much of what goes on and is woven throughout the content of the book. Identity ...

A 5 page consideration of the use of local dialect in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. The focus is on the character Roxanne. Ba...

This 16 page paper examines four books that are centered on American society. The books discussed are Joyce Maynard's To Die For; ...

The first task at hand in our study is the provision of a historical explanation of existentialism. A concise explanation is prov...

of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy...

racist and a whole host of other uncomplimentary terms; however, it has been -- and continues to be -- instrumental in describing ...

In five pages this paper examines Mark Twain's religious irreverence as reflected in The Mysterious Stranger. There are no other ...

In seven pages the way local color is used by the authors in such short stories as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The New England Nun,...

In twenty pages this paper examines naturalism and realism of the 19th century in a consideration of Edith Wharton's The House of ...

In five pages Mark Twain's novel is examined in terms of the argument that the death of youth is represented as the demise of thre...

In five pages this paper considers America following the Civil War and how this time period is reflected in Mark Twain's The Gilde...

Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

death (As To Posthumous). There is one chapter, for instance, called "The Death of Jean" which was written just four months prior...

of the Knights of the Round Table and the legend of King Arthur is achieved by Twain in that he juxtaposes the times and belief sy...

pasta bars thats ferr shurr. To "that stone that Dante used to sit on" watching Beatrice pass by to get a piece of chestnut cake...

vocation was to become licensed as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River" which is where he came up with his literary name, M...

remarkable. This, in many ways, sets us up for the diversity of the work, which is perhaps as changing as the river itself. Twa...

We learn that he forced his partner, Mr. Rogers, out of the business just as it was becoming successful; Lapham and his wife run i...