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

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...

History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...

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

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

that perhaps he had been allowed to do exactly what he wanted. One can imagine that Huck achieved a sense of self-reliance and the...

matches, books and pens and become known as a man more powerful than the great Merlin (A Connecticut Yankee, 2002; Twain, 1979). T...

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

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...

The ways in which 'Self Reliance' assists in understanding Huck's motivation in Mark Twain's novel are considered in this paper co...

In seven pages this paper discusses how the author's persona changes from his short stories such as 'The Gilded Age' and 'Innocent...

In seven pages this paper presents a character examination of Huckleberry Finn and critically analyzes the adventures the novel pr...

swayed by the setting to which he is born. In fact, it seems that Emma and Huck learn those lessons too. The self-reliance they ea...

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

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

too closely: Roxana, for example, is written in a way which strongly implies that it is a true story, based on autobiographical el...

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...

In eight pags this paper examines the meaning of a spiritual home in these three works of fiction. There are no additional source...

In seven pages the ways in which Mississippi River people and towns are presented in Twain's Life on the Mississippi are compared ...

of an irresponsible alcoholic father and the absence of his mother, he is actually quite fortunate in comparison to some of the ot...

In five pages this paper considers America following the Civil War and how this time period is reflected in Mark Twain's The Gilde...

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

In five pages this essay compares the film with the novel by Mark Twain in the commonality of the popular theme in each of childre...

In five pages this paper discusses the conflicting views presented in this novel by Mark Twain and what they mean. There are no o...

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

In six pages this paper examines how industrialization and technology are assailed by Mark Twain in this novel. Six sources are c...

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 eleven pages this Mark Twain novel is examined in terms of synopsis and favorable critical response which is in sharp contrast ...

In ten pages this research paper presents a critical analysis of this 1896 novel by Mark Twain. Two sources are cited in the bibl...

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