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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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,...

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

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

not all agree with that assessment. Harvey began to mistrust the government which could prove dangerous if he were to become invo...

that Twain struggled with "how to reconcile the felt memory of boyhood with the cruel implications of the social system within whi...

meets throughout the course of the story. This serves the important purpose of not only providing a counterpoint through which to ...

In four pages the ways in which Hester Prynne and Huckleberry Finn symbolically represented social conflict are examined in this c...

makes an impression is the plot and specifically the incident when Huck could turn Jim in to the men who are hunting runaway slave...

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...