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So, while Twains comments are funny, as seen thus far, and while he himself claimed that humor was the key, we also note that he p...

drawn eight sets of arms on the figure in her final, unfinished drawing, because she intended to later go in and remove all the se...

continues to rage well into the twenty-first century about whether The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn represents racism and should...

parable or a dream" (Dr. DoCarmo). It more often than not possesses no sentiment or emotion that would pull the reader into believ...

a nineteenth-century technological marvel, believing this would put the ineffectual Arthur and the uppity nobles in their places w...

A 4 page aper which discusses Mark Twain’s short story The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Bibliography lists 4 source...

loves to play and loves to play hooky, desiring to have a good time. However, the adventure comes when Injun Joe becomes part of...

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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,...

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

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

"because she had done it herself" (29). Then, Miss Watson took her turn, introducing him to a spelling book, with the...

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

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

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...

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...