Jim said he reckoned the widow was |to Huck help Jim obtain his freedom. |…
Ulysses Simpson Grant, (1822-1885), American general and 18th President of the United States. Grant, the most capable of the Union generals during the Civil War, was a master strategist. He won the first major Union victories. President Abraham Lincoln staunchly defended him against critics and promoted him to command all Union forces. Grant accepted Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. However, Grant had no disposition for political leadership, and as president (1869-1877) he scarcely attempted to control events. He made injudicious appointments to public office, and official corruption tainted his administration, although Grant himself was not involved in the peculations.…
"and as they went by I see they had the king and the duke astraddle of a rail - that is, I knowed it WAS the king and the duke, though they was all over tar and feathers, and didn't look like nothing in the world that was human - just looked like a couple of monstrous big soldier-plumes. Well, it made me sick to see it; and I was sorry for them poor pitiful rascals, it seemed like I couldn't ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cruel to one another" (Twain 191).…
The 1850's can be described as a “prelude to the Civil War.” Three occurrences during that time that would support that conclusion are the Westward Movement, the Compromise of 1850, and the most significant prelude to the Civil War - the Kansas/Nebraska Act.…
Throughout all of his adventures Jim shows compassion as his most prominent trait. He makes the reader aware of his many superstitions and Jim exhibits gullibility in the sense that he Jim always assumes the other characters in the book will not take advantage of him. One incident proving that Jim acts naive occurs halfway through the novel, when the Duke first comes into the scene "By right I am a duke! Jim's eyes bugged out when he heard that..." In the novel, Huck Finn, one can legitimately prove that compassion, superstitious and gullibility illustrate Jim's character perfectly.…
Everyone has their own problems. Some have more problems than others. Some people have many problems, and then there is Holden Caulfield. J.D. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye, shows Holden as someone who has a great amount of problems. Holden’s little brother Allie died when he was young, and Holden has been kicked out of multiple schools. Holden is hypocritical throughout the book in various ways, showing that he is very confused. Holden says one thing but does the other various times in the book. Holden is like no other person, he ran away from home after being kicked out of his third school, and is a failure many times throughout the book. Holden is confused about what to do in life and he is confused when it comes to school. Despite the fact that he will be getting no education, he has no friends to help him because his relationship skills show he’s confused as well.…
Twain describes local customs and the ways that the characters behave to create a more realistic setting for the story. In the story the characters engage in behavior or activities that would be unusual for a regular person to do. For example, the narrator says:…
George Washington Carver was born during the civil war years on a Missouri farm near Diamond Grove, Newton Country in Marion, Township Missouri. Even Carver himself was uncertain of his own birth date. In early manhood he thought that he was born in the year of 1865. On other occasions Carver noted that his birth came "near the end of the civil war" or "just as freedom was declared ".…
unreliable narrator because he’s only telling us the story from his point of view and how the…
fact shows that Twain made his own character superior in a way to the others,…
George Washington Carver was an a agricultural chemist who played an important role in agricultural advancements in the U.S. He was the son of slaves, and was born around the year 1860, near Diamond Grove, Missouri. Carver was an outstanding student in high school, and later went on to Simpson College, in Iowa, in 1891. He graduated from the Iowa Agricultural College in 1894 with a B.S. degree, and taught agriculture and bacterial botany while working on his M.S. in agriculture, which he received in 1896. After receiving his masters, he landed a job as the director of agriculture in the Tuskegee Institute, in Alabama. He continued to work there for the duration of his life, which ended on January 5, 1943, due to anemia.…
Abraham Lincoln is known as "The Great Emancipator" who freed the slaves. Yet in the early part of his career and even in the early stages of his presidency, Lincoln had no objection to slavery where it already existed, namely, in the Southern states. As a savvy politician, he always wanted to maintain the union, and he would use any device to keep the country together. However, his views on slavery evolved during his presidency, and the personal opposition towards slavery that he claimed he always had began to show through in his policy. As Lincoln noted in 1864, "I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel" (Lorence 306). Despite such strongly worded beliefs, Lincoln policies towards slavery often shifted for the sake of political expedience. For example, he pledged that states would be compensated for their loss of property as a result of emancipation to keep the border states from seceding. Still, by 1862 Lincoln had become firm in his convictions that slavery must be abolished. He even pressed for a constitutional amendment to ensure freedom to all the slaves. Lincoln espoused strong anti-slavery views, but he often put what he viewed as the good of the country ahead of the cause. Despite many detours along the way, he proved himself to be "The Great Emancipator." As a self-made politician from humble origins, Lincoln struggled in his early political life to define his identity. He described his childhood as "The short and simple annals of the poor. That's my life, and that's all you or any one else can make of it" (Oates 4). Lincoln felt extremely embarrassed about his background and worked his entire life to overcome the limitations he faced. He made himself a "literate and professional man who commanded the respect of his colleagues" (Oates 4). It is difficult to assess Lincoln's early views on slavery and race because they were constantly changing in an effort to achieve such…
James Monroe was the fifth president of the United States of America. He was a very intelligent man and was a good candidate to run the country. He was able to do many great things while he was the president.…
Mark Twain was an author, a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, inventor, and entrepreneur ("Mark Twain Biography”). His full name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. But his pen name is Mark Twain. He was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He died in Redding, Connecticut on April 21, 1910. He was the sixth of seven children of Jane and John Clemens. His siblings’ names were Orion, Henry, Pamela, Margaret, Benjamin, and Pleasant ("Mark Twain"). In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon ("Twain's Life and Works"). He had four kids, Langdon, Susy, Clara, and Jean ("Clemens Children"). Even though Twain didn’t get an education farther than elementary school, and he got depressed, he still wrote some very famous books ("Mark Twain Biography”).…
Cited: Twain, Mark. “Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech” Pages 1133- 1136. McMicheal, George. Concise Anthology of American Literature. Sixth Edition. Prentice-Hall. 1993.…