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

matches, books and pens and become known as a man more powerful than the great Merlin (A Connecticut Yankee, 2002; Twain, 1979). T...

he knows of an undertow there which will hold her back against the gale and save her. For just pure woodcraft, or sailorcraft, or ...

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...

scene that demonstrates the main thematic thrust of the story, Huck writes to Miss Watson telling her of Jims whereabouts. After w...

claiming Twains work was a masterpiece (Smiley). Smiley then moves on to illustrate the history of Hucks writing. She indicate...

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

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

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...

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

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

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,...

Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...

The ways in which 'Self Reliance' assists in understanding Huck's motivation in Mark Twain's novel are considered in this paper co...

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...

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

continues to rage well into the twenty-first century about whether The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn represents racism and should...

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

she should behave. She goes to a home where she is treated very well and ultimately has a puppy of her own and this makes her life...

about a man he knew. Twain immediately presents the reader with the fact that he believes this particular individual may not even ...

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

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

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 ...

of an irresponsible alcoholic father and the absence of his mother, he is actually quite fortunate in comparison to some of the ot...

In five pages these two novels are compared in an analysis of how the concept of a quest is featured within each. There are no ot...

and superstitious. Although Huck may not be racist himself, he no doubt has been raised in an environment of extremely racists ind...

beliefs maintained by the slaves when they still resided in Africa. There is also the perspective which argues that the childre...