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to read and teach to students, especially in the younger grades. Fishkin believes that to fully understand the work, students must...

are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth -- that you never knew such a perso...

the 1830s did not refer to blacks without using the epithet "nigger," or some other derogatory term. But because Twain accurately ...

Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering...

In five pages this paper considers the views of authors Henry Fielding, Aldous Huxley, and Mark Twain regarding a hypothetical sce...

main point of the journeys) can be summarized as follows: Huckleberry Finn and his friend Jim, an escaped slave, start down the Mi...

addresses the audience. Twain perhaps understood that critics were bountiful and that his work would be critiqued in many respects...

a place" (I.ii.146). And she answers, "Never hung poison on a fouler toad. Out of my sight, thou dost infect mine eyes!" (I.ii.147...

sedate man introduce the story, and tell the reader about the story, the reader is made to believe that it is a very true story fr...

is on his own journey for he too is aware of the murderer Injun Joe. As such their journeys, while different, essentially stem fro...

Huck should not do it anymore. Huck thinks, "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they dont know ...

wisest and smartest of his people, respected by his people. Huck tells us that, "Strange niggers would stand with their mouths ope...

his civilized life. The plot, other than Huck running away, involved Huck running and coming in contact with Jim, a slave he kn...

shows compassion, but also seems confused at times as well. For the most part he is out to have a good time and enjoy a good adven...

journeys, "After leaving his ruined home in a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker began a journey taken by countless other heroes...

Both works focus on an important racial figure as a primary element in the development of the plot. The relationship between Huck...

In seven pages this paper discusses how the author's persona changes from his short stories such as 'The Gilded Age' and 'Innocent...

through personal discipline, education, enterprise and self-reliance. The book was published in 1901 - almost a hundred years ago...

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

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

creation of Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For some time now, as the student researching this topic may be aware...

still considers himself superior to black people despite the fact that he himself is part of the lowest echelons of society; he me...

In seven pages the novel's slavery commentary is examined. There are five other sources cited in the bibliography....

In six pages the various dialect types represented in this novel are examined. There is one other source used in the bibliography...

In five pages this paper discusses the last half of this Mark Twain novel in an analysis of the role the Tom Sawyer character play...

to Jim. There are other issues as well but this is the predominant one. So then, the question is whether or not Twain was actual...

and just as its midnight you back up against the stump and jam your hand in and say: Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts,/...

in which the term nigger is used. Today this is a derogatory term, but it has to recognised that when Mark Twain grew up it was in...

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...

Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly -- Toms Aunt Polly, she is -- and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in ...