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with which Twain was quite familiar. There appears to be no individual he likely knew as Huck Finn, but perhaps, as a writer, Tw...

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

This essay considers Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and asserts that both protagonists were societ...

This paper compares and contrasts two adolescent protagonists, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and J.D. Salinger's character Holden ...

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

In 5 pages this paper examines how Mark Twain's writings were influenced by the values of the American South in a consideration of...

began disappearing from school library bookshelves, denying students the right to draw their own conclusions. The Adventures of H...

This paper contrasts and compares how the trickster is presented in Joel Chandler Harris' Brer Rabbit stories and in Mark Twain's ...

In five pages this paper discusses the author's perspectives on slavery as reflected in this great American novel. Five sources a...

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

from such a cultured youth. This is a very symbolic disguise and one that establishes how Huck is searching for his identity throu...

I couldnt ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cru...

This paper supports the high school curriculum addition of this controversial 1885 novel by Mark Twain. One source is cited in th...

In five pages this paper discusses how dialect is used for the purposes of realism in this late 19th century American novel. Ther...

In 5 pages this great American novel is analyzed in an historical overview of the relevant 19th century issues including children'...

In 15 pages this paper examines how these boys mature throughout the course of Mark Twain's coming of age novel. There are no oth...

to read and teach to students, especially in the younger grades. Fishkin believes that to fully understand the work, students must...

examine the realities of the time and thus see the attitudes of Twain. First we see that Huck is very disturbed by the fact that J...

Hucks scheme as being "too blame simple" (323). Instead, he proposes the lengthy chore of digging Jim out, which will take about ...

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

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

particular excerpt almost seems to serve as an introduction to how religion is seen in the society of Huck Finn. The reader sees t...

in Twains book is that which involves dialect, a subject that gained a great deal of criticism when the book came out. From the ve...

of Hucks and Huck and Tom are often compared and contrasted. While Huck is intelligent and introspective, Tom is adventurous and ...

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

In six pages this paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with young women dying was due to the premature death of his wif...

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

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

story we can see this as Huck states that "I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the wi...

Pilot and the Passenger (1956), vernacular language carries democratic social value" (Review). As difficult as it has been for A...