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

he has not really learned a great deal, except to perhaps further solidify his lack of desire to be civilized. In reading this sto...

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...

isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...

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

. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...

Finn" but also in many others of Twains tales. This importance is made apparent even by the chosen pen name of the author. Samue...

There have actually been schools which have banned Huckleberry Finn from their libraries and their classrooms, based upon the refe...

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

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

past, particularly those which occurred in totalitarian regimes that could not tolerate scrutiny any closer than that which it alr...

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...

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

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

imitates life (Hamlin et al 12). It is important for the student to realize that as essential as Huckleberry Finns character was ...

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

wisest and smartest of his people, respected by his people. Huck tells us that, "Strange niggers would stand with their mouths ope...

is on his own journey for he too is aware of the murderer Injun Joe. As such their journeys, while different, essentially stem fro...

his civilized life. The plot, other than Huck running away, involved Huck running and coming in contact with Jim, a slave he kn...

Huck should not do it anymore. Huck thinks, "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they dont know ...

sedate man introduce the story, and tell the reader about the story, the reader is made to believe that it is a very true story fr...

student prefers to cite a movie. Additionally, as this writer/tutor knows nothing of the students background, for this assignment,...

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

journeys, "After leaving his ruined home in a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker began a journey taken by countless other heroes...

shows compassion, but also seems confused at times as well. For the most part he is out to have a good time and enjoy a good adven...

in the natural order, the black man and the animal were indistinguishable. This was the prevailing attitude with which author, hu...

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