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Jane Smiley's Essay 'Say It Ain't So, Huck'

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

Sex Roles and the Factors that Affect Them

different than hers. Smiley is evidently a down-to-earth woman, a woman for whom neither makeup or fancy clothes and shoes hold m...

Smiley Face

smokes pot and the comedy arises through her being stoned all day. In relationship to these conditions the film offers ver...

Huckleberry Finn and Social Consciousness

This essay argues that Huck's moral maturation resulted from his relationship with Jim, a runaway slave, and it is this bond that ...

Essay on 'The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same' Saying

perhaps, but recognizable. It really wont have changed at all. Social customs change too, but they are much more important than ...

Jane Tomkin/"Indians"

Indians, but rather how scholarship can lead an historian to this answer. What is her conclusion to this overriding issue? Over...

Twain/Cruelty in Huckleberry Finn

A 12 page research paper on Mark Twain's classic novel Huck Finn. This paper includes a 9 page essay, an annotated bibliography an...

Women's Role in A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

In five pages this paper examines women's roles and what influenced them within the context of A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley. T...

Nonconformist, Society, and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

reactions and evolution are rooted in the desire for individuality, which represents to Huck Finn and to Mark Twain, saying and do...

Huck Finn a Poet

the essay, however, Emerson points out other elements of the poet that seem very reflective of the character of Huck. For example,...

Identity Search of Huckleberry Finn

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

Moral Conscience and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

This essay consists of three pages and discusses Huck's moral conscience which shapes the choices he makes throughout the course o...

Just Following Orders

equipment someone has the responsibility of guarding it. These watches, like most everything else in the military, begin and end a...

Earthquake: A Terrifying Force

they strike without warning and can do tremendous damage. At this point the student will want to consider an experience in an ear...

King Lear by William Shakespeare and A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

In five pages this paper discusses the similarities and differences that exist in these 2 works. Two sources are cited in the bib...

Reason vs. Emotion in Dickens and Austen

the same way, with the result that his daughter Louisa feels unfulfilled while his son Tom becomes completely self-interested. The...

Time Travel: Possibilities

consider the situation of Sally and Sam, who are identical twins. While Sam remains at home, Sally gets on a rocket ship, "travels...

Money Compare Franklin and Bible

Some of Ben Franklin's wise words about money and specifically about lending it to friends is compared/contrasted with what the Bi...

Passage Analysis from Pride and Prejudice

Prejudice perfectly illustrates the main characteristics of Elizabeth Bennett, the main protagonist of the novel, as well as those...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Education of Huck

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

Freedom Quest of Huck Finn

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...

Moral Issues as Presented in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In eight pages this paper examines 19th century moral values as they are represented by Huck's ethical evolution throughout this c...

Motivation and 'Self Reliance' by Ralph Waldo Emerson and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The ways in which 'Self Reliance' assists in understanding Huck's motivation in Mark Twain's novel are considered in this paper co...

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Dramatic Irony

In five pages Twain's use of dramatic irony in Chapter XXXI is examined in terms of Huck's decision regarding Jim's mistake and it...

Pranks of Tom Sawyer at the End of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Hucks scheme as being "too blame simple" (323). Instead, he proposes the lengthy chore of digging Jim out, which will take about ...

Outsiders' Role in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Jane comments that "the more he bought me, the more my cheek burned with a sense of annoyance and degradation" (Bronte 236). Roche...

Jane Eyre as a Child

"sympathize" with her, as she was the opposite of them in "temperament, in capacity,...a useless thing, incapable of serving their...

Jane Eyre's Relationship with Rochester: Freud's Unconscious

be reciprocated. In spite of the fact that she fully understands the unlikely nature of such a relationship, this does not deter ...

Helen Burns' Fictional Journal Entry about Jane Eyre

In five pages Charlotte Bronte's book is considered in terms of a fictional entry made by Jane's school chum Helen Burns in her jo...

Charlotte Bronte's Protagonist Jane Eyre

In five pages a character analysis of Jane Eyre and how her development progresses in 5 different environmental settings are prese...