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in which the term nigger is used. Today this is a derogatory term, but it has to recognised that when Mark Twain grew up it was in...

town drunk and taught him to steal chickens whenever the opportunity availed itself. In other words, Twain quickly establishes tha...

to Jim. There are other issues as well but this is the predominant one. So then, the question is whether or not Twain was actual...

Both works focus on an important racial figure as a primary element in the development of the plot. The relationship between Huck...

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

through personal discipline, education, enterprise and self-reliance. The book was published in 1901 - almost a hundred years ago...

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

In seven pages the novel's slavery commentary is examined. There are five other sources cited in the bibliography....

In six pages the various dialect types represented in this novel are examined. There is one other source used in the bibliography...

the 1830s did not refer to blacks without using the epithet "nigger," or some other derogatory term. But because Twain accurately ...

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

was of majestic form and stature... her gestures and movements distinguished by a noble and stately grace... She had an easy, inde...

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

still considers himself superior to black people despite the fact that he himself is part of the lowest echelons of society; he me...

creation of Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For some time now, as the student researching this topic may be aware...

In five pages this paper discusses the last half of this Mark Twain novel in an analysis of the role the Tom Sawyer character play...

pasta bars thats ferr shurr. To "that stone that Dante used to sit on" watching Beatrice pass by to get a piece of chestnut cake...

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 the sense that opportunities for success are not actually equally distributed, but the ideal holds true in some sense in that t...

the struggles of a brother and a sister as they try to uncover the meaning of life, the spiritual nature of life, and many other d...

because Holden cannot seem to figure out how to grow up, how to become an adult he would admire and respect. He is frightened of g...

mean a person who saves children from going over a precipice. As this indicates, he wants to be a "savor/ defender of the innocent...

individual (Keating, 1999). People are generally selfish. They look at life from the perspective of whether or not something will ...

seems only to be related to her nature as a reference point. Mr. Caulfield is never seen in the novel, and there is little inform...

at the prep school. In the beginning of the novel we see that Holden admires this man to some degree. Just prior to leaving his pr...

try to help him are merely reflections of himself in some ways we present the following paper which focuses on the character of Mr...

Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...

write about" (Anonymous Brainstorm Page IV-A, 2002; iv-a.htm). Also as mentioned, his stories were not always, if ever, truly h...

This paper analyzes J.D. Salinger's novel, Catcher in the Rye. This ten page paper has five sources listed in the bibliography....

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