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

expected of young women in British society during this era. In Potoks novel, Asher Lev is a twentieth century boy raised in the Ha...

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

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

remarkable. This, in many ways, sets us up for the diversity of the work, which is perhaps as changing as the river itself. Twa...

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

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

drawn eight sets of arms on the figure in her final, unfinished drawing, because she intended to later go in and remove all the se...

skinned and easily passes for white. This simple premise presents us with the curious question of whether or not this boy will e...

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

Colette and sing happy songs about flowers and birds. (point one) But, of course, flower songs are not for grown ups. Now, the so...

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

is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and...

for a marriage proposal will cause scholars to revise previous assessments that Twain was ineffective in representing women and un...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

In five pages this paper examines how multiculturalism is represented in such American literary works as The Souls of Black Folk b...

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

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,...

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 paper examines Twain's perspectives on technology as seen in both his writing and his life. The author uses examples from th...

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