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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...

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 ...

So, while Twains comments are funny, as seen thus far, and while he himself claimed that humor was the key, we also note that he p...

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...

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

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

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 ...

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

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

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

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...

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...

death (As To Posthumous). There is one chapter, for instance, called "The Death of Jean" which was written just four months prior...

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 seven pages the ways in which Mississippi River people and towns are presented in Twain's Life on the Mississippi are compared ...

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

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,...

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 seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...

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

This article summary describes a study, Chen (2014), which pertains to nontraditional adult students and the application of adult ...

In five pages the ways in which Judaism ins represented in Franz Kafka's works are examined with an emphasis upon his story 'Metam...