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a mountain range, etc., that has served historically to keep two populations apart also serves to create differences in speech (R...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

We learn that he forced his partner, Mr. Rogers, out of the business just as it was becoming successful; Lapham and his wife run i...

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

are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth -- that you never knew such a perso...

the essay, however, Emerson points out other elements of the poet that seem very reflective of the character of Huck. For example,...

the strongest women in the piece are the goddess Pallas Athena and Penelope, Odysseuss wife. In addition, although her part was sm...

Diallo as a character would grow regardless of where he went to school. This is ironic as one would think that expanding ones hori...