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its utmost depths, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn touches upon a number of unprecedented issues; because of the shock value su...

In five pages Mark Twain's use of regional dialects in his classic 1884 American novel is examined with its intentions often being...

Puddnhead Wilson, in which Twain argued quite effectively that "niggers" were made?not born (Thompson 289). Despite their differ...

In 15 pages this paper examines how these boys mature throughout the course of Mark Twain's coming of age novel. There are no oth...

In about six pages President Thomas Jefferson is contrasted and compared with famed former slave and powerful orator Frederick Dou...

This paper compares and contrasts two adolescent protagonists, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and J.D. Salinger's character Holden ...

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

In five pages this paper examines society's evils as represented within Mark Twain's classic American novel. One source is listed...

The first task at hand in our study is the provision of a historical explanation of existentialism. A concise explanation is prov...

story we can see this as Huck states that "I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the wi...

Pilot and the Passenger (1956), vernacular language carries democratic social value" (Review). As difficult as it has been for A...

culture to some extent. The culture is implicit in much of what goes on and is woven throughout the content of the book. Identity ...

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 5 pages this paper examines how Mark Twain's writings were influenced by the values of the American South in a consideration of...

began disappearing from school library bookshelves, denying students the right to draw their own conclusions. The Adventures of H...

In five pages this paper discusses Huckleberry Finn's 'good nature' in a consideration of Mark Twain's view that a 'deformed consc...

well-familiar, spoken in a regional dialect they could easily understand. According to Twain, "Humor must not professedly teach, ...

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 five page paperis an analysis of Mark Twain's use of language to reflect social class. There are 2 sources used in the bibli...

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

This 16 page paper examines four books that are centered on American society. The books discussed are Joyce Maynard's To Die For; ...

This paper contrasts and compares how the trickster is presented in Joel Chandler Harris' Brer Rabbit stories and in Mark Twain's ...

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

who finds themself trapped with a, almost willingly, woman going insane. Twains "Huckleberry Finn" takes the reader with him along...

footsteps. This is demonstrated through the parallels between Huck and his father. In the part of the novel where Huck is abducted...

past, particularly those which occurred in totalitarian regimes that could not tolerate scrutiny any closer than that which it alr...

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...

. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...

Finn" but also in many others of Twains tales. This importance is made apparent even by the chosen pen name of the author. Samue...