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Contrasting and Comparing "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien with "Luck" by Mark Twain

A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...

Cleopatra

her as a very powerful philosopher, public benefactor, and offered her up as an author who wrote books on cosmetics and medicine (...

The Counter-Cultural Jesus In Mark's Gospel

little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Societal Conflict

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

Tom's Character and the Thematic Development of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

This paper examines how thematic development is achieved through Tom's characterization in Pudd'nhead Wilson in terms of scientifi...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Slavery

In five pages this paper discusses the author's perspectives on slavery as reflected in this great American novel. Five sources a...

Herakles Presentation by Playwrights and Artists

very opposing forces. There is an evident duality to Herakles. On the one hand, he has a compassionate side that truly wants to ...

Back to the Motherland

own lands(**). Reinsertion is accompanied, in most cases, with some form of aid which makes certain that the returning soldiers h...

Setting as Portrayed in Works by Richard Shelton and Leslie Marmon Silko

visit time and again, or which makes the reader have a strange sense of foreboding for the characters as the story unravels. Autho...

Life's Message in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

I couldnt ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cru...

Holocaust Literature and the Portrayal of Children

adults, their youth and relative weakness decreased their chances of survival in the camps, where they were subjected to violence,...

Racism and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper examines how racism is attacked by the author in this classic American novel. There are no other sources...

'Heavenly' Jackson's Island in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages Twain's use of metaphors in this novel are analyzed in a consideration of Jackson's Island and how this symbolically...

Water Appeal in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

while maintaining a safe distance so no one is compromised. All the characters enjoy considerable affluence and leisure. None of...

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and NegCreole by Kate Chopin

In five pages this paper examines women and racism as depicted in these two literary works. There are no other sources listed....

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft and Sexuality

In six pages this paper examines this 1792 text in an analysis of how sexuality is thematically portrayed....

Themes of Bood and Evil in The Bible, Crito, and The Oresteia

This paper addresses the nature of morality as portrayed in these three works. The author compares and contrasts how good, evil, ...

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

In two pages this paper examines how American small town life is unsympathetically portrayed in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis....

Racial Acceptance in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In six pages this paper discusses the racism criticisms of this novel and argues that in fact it represents racial acceptance. Th...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

biggest fools there is. ...he never plays them alike, two days, and how is a body to know whats coming? He pears to know just how ...

Character Development of Jim in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In eight pages this paper examines the development of Jim's character and its importance to the novel as a whole. There are 8 sou...

Raft Journey in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

raft and get on a steamboat and go way up the Ohio amongst the free states, and then be out of trouble" (Twain, 85). Huck can be f...

River Symbolism in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In six pages this analytical essay analyzes the river symbolism and its importance to the novel as a whole. There are six support...

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...

Daisy Miller by Henry James and Society

In five pages this 1878 novel by Henry James is examined in terms of how social conventions are thematically portrayed....

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...

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain and Discipline

In seven pages this paper considers how discipline is depicted in the novle with Tom's Aunt Pol appearing to be very harsh but who...

Language and Realism in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper discusses how dialect is used for the purposes of realism in this late 19th century American novel. Ther...

Historical Plausibility of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In 5 pages this great American novel is analyzed in an historical overview of the relevant 19th century issues including children'...

J.D. Salinger, Mark Twain, and Society

In 7 pages this paper examines how the young protagonists of Catcher in the Rye and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are at war ...