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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...

Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...

In five pages this paper examines Mark Twain's religious irreverence as reflected in The Mysterious Stranger. There are no other ...

In five pages Mark Twain's novel is examined in terms of the argument that the death of youth is represented as the demise of thre...

racist and a whole host of other uncomplimentary terms; however, it has been -- and continues to be -- instrumental in describing ...

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,...

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 twenty pages this paper examines naturalism and realism of the 19th century in a consideration of Edith Wharton's The House of ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

In five pages this research paper examines reporting by the media in an evaluation of its accuracy in a consideration of the conce...

culture to some extent. The culture is implicit in much of what goes on and is woven throughout the content of the book. Identity ...

The first task at hand in our study is the provision of a historical explanation of existentialism. A concise explanation is prov...

of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy...

In four pages the ways in which Hester Prynne and Huckleberry Finn symbolically represented social conflict are examined in this c...

We learn that he forced his partner, Mr. Rogers, out of the business just as it was becoming successful; Lapham and his wife run i...

makes an impression is the plot and specifically the incident when Huck could turn Jim in to the men who are hunting runaway slave...

meets throughout the course of the story. This serves the important purpose of not only providing a counterpoint through which to ...

that Twain struggled with "how to reconcile the felt memory of boyhood with the cruel implications of the social system within whi...

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

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...

the essay, however, Emerson points out other elements of the poet that seem very reflective of the character of Huck. For example,...

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

wronged by the people sets out to uncover just how dishonest they truly are, how they do not possess righteousness and that they a...