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Technology in The Writings of Mark Twain

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

Southern Values Represented in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

of Huckleberry Finn, in Mark Twains classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, effectively incorporates the innocence of a child ...

American Literature Overview

In five pages this research paper examines American literature from the late 18th century through the 20th century with such autho...

Techniques of Storytelling in 'Was It Heaven? Or Hell' by Mark Twain

In 4 pages the way in which Mark Twain constructed this story's melodrama is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

'Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County' by Mark Twain and the Craft of Storytelling

In 4 pages this paper examines the storytelling lessons on construction that can be learned from this amusing tale by Mark Twain. ...

Literary Sense of Time and Place

In five pages the images of time and place are explored in 'The White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett, 'My Antonia' by Willa Cather, '...

Mark Twain and T.H. White's Literary Expertise

myths that surrounded the history of England. Most of these tales abounded with medieval kings and castles, dragons and wizards, ...

Huckleberry Finn and Cruelty

Mark Twain deals with cruelty in Huckleberry Finn in a unique way. This paper argues that his thesis is that unintentional cruelty...

Experience Perceptual Differences Between Children and Adults in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

of an irresponsible alcoholic father and the absence of his mother, he is actually quite fortunate in comparison to some of the ot...

White People Portrayed in Works by Frederick Douglass and Mark Twain

In 6 pages this paper examines how white people are portrayed in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Adventures of Huc...

Huck Finn vs. Antonia

William Cather in My Antonia and Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn dealt with complex social issues by painting the...

Government Application and Survival in Joseph Andrews, Brave New World, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

In five pages this paper considers the views of authors Henry Fielding, Aldous Huxley, and Mark Twain regarding a hypothetical sce...

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and the Characteristics of Race

In ten pages the repetition of race issues and racial characteristics featured in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain...

Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain and Its Racial Implications

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

A Review of The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

the most righteous and honorable. Their vanity ran deep: "The neighbouring towns were jealous of this honourable supremacy, and af...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Its Controversial Nature

because of its controversial position, and content, that children should not be required to read it, or have it read in class. In ...

Education and Literature's Role

is the well read that appear to succeed in life, they have a broader base of knowledge from which to make judgements and decision....

American 'Palefaces' and 'Redskins' in Literature

In five pages this report discusses the 'pale face' or 'redskin' literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century with the 'pal...

Protagonists: Twain, Austen, and Potok

journey with a runaway slave and ultimately finds his way back to civilization and a home. Offering a very simple and adventurous ...

Individualism in the Work of Mark Twain

at the individuality of creatures and how pure and noble a dog can be in the face of humanity that is cruel, perhaps speaking of h...

American Imperialism

strategic outposts for expanding trade with Latin America and Asia, particularly China" (History of the United States, 1865-1918, ...

Satire in the Writings of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Mark Twain

addresses the audience. Twain perhaps understood that critics were bountiful and that his work would be critiqued in many respects...

Critiques of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before" (Twain Chapter I NA). In examining this approach to language, we not...

Mississippi River Journey of Jim and Huckleberry Finn

and telling Huck his story. They both decide to simply hide out on the island together, fishing and getting what they can on the i...

Significance and Symbolism of the River in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts--sometime...

Racism and Puddn'head Wilson by Mark Twain

skinned and easily passes for white. This simple premise presents us with the curious question of whether or not this boy will e...

Character of Jim and the Views of Mark Twain on Slavery in Huckleberry Finn

time and thus see the attitudes of Twain. First we see that Huck is very disturbed by the fact that Jim has runaway. Jim is truly ...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain and the Character of Hank Morgan

he is bound to a stake at the center of a seated multitude, walled in by four thousand people who have come to watch him be burned...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, and the American Dream

we are offered the changing nature of that American Dream as it turned to something far more materialistic and powerful in a capit...

'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog' by Mark Twain and the Use of Vernacular

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...