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my visitor, who was cold after her ride and looked hungry and who, our dinner being brought in, required some little assistance in...

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens both deal in major part with discrimination. T...

Friendship is often the focus of attention by novelists as characters interact with one another. This is the case in this classic ...

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...

hostile, choosing to abide by his inner instinct and institute avoidance. "Better not try to brew beer there now, or it would tur...

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

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

dealing with the world in future" (Palmer 57). As this suggests, humor, at least temporarily, has the power to free perception fr...

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 ...

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

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...

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

does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...

between people and between the individual and society in general. These contrasts are all intricately detailed in the work of Cha...

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

presented with a picture of London where Mr. Darnay understands that he needed to work for what he got. "He had expected labour, a...

how they were hindered and helped by his educational options. Pip, like Dickens, encounters a great deal of frustration with the e...

of this, more than likely, was due to the influence of modern industrialized society and the move from rural to urban settings, bu...

illustrating how misery is a product of human actions. This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of h...

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

One of the main themes in this Dickens novel is that of disillusionment, and we see this theme emerge on many different levels wit...

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...

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,/...

barely notices when Florence enters the room. Dickens writes "They had been married ten years, and until this present day ...(they...

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 ...

goes on to note that he never met anyone who didnt lie and that presents us with an incredibly strong, yet also powerfully subtle,...

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...

of ever-growing interest. So, with great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered" (Dickens NA). We are then presented ...