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and he used to fetch him down town sometimes and lay for a bet" (Twain). Smiley was a character who would trick others and come ou...

own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...

expected of young women in British society during this era. In Potoks novel, Asher Lev is a twentieth century boy raised in the Ha...

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...

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

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

drawn eight sets of arms on the figure in her final, unfinished drawing, because she intended to later go in and remove all the se...

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

loves to play and loves to play hooky, desiring to have a good time. However, the adventure comes when Injun Joe becomes part of...

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...

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

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

THis five page paperis an analysis of Mark Twain's use of language to reflect social class. There are 2 sources used in the bibli...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

claiming Twains work was a masterpiece (Smiley). Smiley then moves on to illustrate the history of Hucks writing. She indicate...

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...

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...

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 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 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 ...