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

night and by day. For about four years, Twain worked as a river pilot. He enjoyed the work which provided constant excitement. He ...

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

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

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

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...

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...

legitimately enslaved. Roxy gives birth to an infant son on the same day that a son is born to her white master. Twain emphasizes ...

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...

nothing more than this to be content. In Part 2, when the narrator describes...

There have actually been schools which have banned Huckleberry Finn from their libraries and their classrooms, based upon the refe...

In seven pages this paper examines the crimes of slavery and racial discrimination within the context of this novel by Mark Twain....

"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 ...

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

This 5 page paper discusses the influence the character of Huckleberry Finn has on his friend Tom Sawyer in Mark Twain's classic n...

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...

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...

slept wherever he could. For associating with Huckleberry Finn, Tom was whipped by the schoolmaster and ordered to sit on the girl...

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...

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...

the wind like a plume" (Hurston , p. 2). She is walking down the street of her hometown under the disapproving eyes of the townspe...