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Evil According to Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, and Henry James

battling with his conscious for some time, Huck writes a letter to Miss Watson, who is Jims owner that tell where Jim is. Afterwar...

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Dramatic Irony

In five pages Twain's use of dramatic irony in Chapter XXXI is examined in terms of Huck's decision regarding Jim's mistake and it...

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain and Discipline

In seven pages this paper considers how discipline is depicted in the novle with Tom's Aunt Pol appearing to be very harsh but who...

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Societal Conflict

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

W.E.B. Du Bois and Mark Twain Comparison

In five pages black and white cultural views are contrasted and compared in Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk and Twain's The Adve...

Reality and Disguise in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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

Analyzing 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' by Mark Twain

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

Teaching Racism, Historical Context and Irony Using Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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

Racism in Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain and Classism in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

Nonconformist, Society, and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

reactions and evolution are rooted in the desire for individuality, which represents to Huck Finn and to Mark Twain, saying and do...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Slavery

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

Tom's Character and the Thematic Development of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

This paper examines how thematic development is achieved through Tom's characterization in Pudd'nhead Wilson in terms of scientifi...

Racism and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper examines how racism is attacked by the author in this classic American novel. There are no other sources...

'Heavenly' Jackson's Island in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages Twain's use of metaphors in this novel are analyzed in a consideration of Jackson's Island and how this symbolically...

Contrasting and Comparing "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien with "Luck" by Mark Twain

A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...

Jack Kerouac

A 6 page overview of the life of this famous writer. Kerouac's early life experiences were a tremendous impact on his later writi...

Early American Poetry

would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...

Creative Writing Paper Sample

you keep me around." Okay, so Im a pushover where hes concerned, but I have to say in my defense that I still wasnt sold on the w...

Great Minds Discuss Life's Meaning and Purpose

In five pages this paper examines how life's meaning and purpose are viewed by such great thinkers as Albert Camus, Friedrich Niet...

Gender Issues Involved in Freedom from Slavery

In five pages the gender differences regarding freedom and slavery issues are considered within the context of the writings Uncle ...

AMERICO PAREDES: A SECRET RACISM

the end, most likely killed by her stepfather, a Hispanic, through sheer ignorance and neglect. The fact that no one seems to no C...

Oates/How I Contemplated the World... & Postmodernism

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

Themes Present in the Writings of Tomas Rivera

Him, which has serves as "one of the most important works of literature dealing with the Chicano experience in the United States" ...

Emily Dickinson's Private Affairs and Their Influence on Her Poetry

born (The Life of Emily Dickinson). Although her childhood was typical of most, by the time she was a young adult she had retreat...

Feminism/A Personal Manifesto

entitled to "stay single, marry or cohabit...with same-sex, opposite-sex or varying partners" while setting their career sights on...

Overcoming Difficulty

resentment aside and applied myself to my studies, and came in first in my class. Furthermore, as I maintained excellent grades th...

Life and Times of Vlad Tepes, the Original Dracula

out of the hands of Vlad the III. (Vlad 1996) Vlad III eventually did manage to regain the thrown of Walachia by conspiring with...

Huck, Emma & Asher Lev/Misfits

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

Friendship in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This 7 page paper examines the friendship between Huck and Tom in Twain's classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and ar...

Controversial Themes in Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This paper presents a case study and critical analysis of Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The author discusses racism, ge...