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Tom rescues his daughter (Little Eva) from a drowning death. St. Clare is one who believes in paying his debts and, in fact, promi...

him--and pay for the privilege. Tom realizes that "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of wha...

In seven pages this paper considers how discipline is depicted in the novle with Tom's Aunt Pol appearing to be very harsh but who...

In five pages this chapter is examined in a structural analysis that discusses the conflict between death and fear imagery and Tom...

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

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. ...

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,...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...

to be Hucks fault in two key ways. Practically speaking, Huck is at fault because he put the dead snake in Jims bed that eventuall...

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

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