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    My Hero is called Carlyle Meeks he is in the woods lost. His strengths are surviving in the woods‚ his weaknesses are facing giant snakes and giant spiders. He does have a family‚ but he ran away when he was five. “Help is anybody out there? Why am i saying help for i’m in the middle of the woods.” “It’s getting to become dark I need to make camp and a fire! Also ‚I need to get some food I’m starving! CHIRP CHIRP! A bird is that all there is out here . Ohh what is over there it’s a deer YESSS!”

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    important symbolic figure. To the main characters‚ Jim and Huck‚ the river is their place for freedom and adventure. Both of these characters were stuck in a society that they did not want to be a part of (Huck‚ tired of ‘sivilized’ folks; Jim‚ of being a slave). Jim views the river as freedom and poverty from his former slavery and Huck finds the river to be somewhere he can be himself. By making an escape to the calm and peaceful river‚ Huck and Jim express their aversion towards society. 2. The

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    Huck and Superstition There are many superstitions especially relating to animals in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. One major animal that was associated with a few superstitions is the snake. Superstition has always associated snakes with “fear and respect and some cultures have even credited the serpent with various supernatural powers” The snake has more superstitions based on it than any other animal. Many of these superstitions come from Kentucky. A lot of the things that will

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    relating to the concept of journey. A related text which also has ideas and themes relating to the concept of journey is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Both of these texts are related not only because they both relate to journeys‚ but also because they both contain physical journeys. Although the reason for journey differs in both texts‚ they present similar ideas and impacts of journeys. Although the reason for journey is different in both texts‚ the journey is presented as an escape

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    "Self-Reliance" vs. Huckleberry Finn In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay "Self-Reliance‚" he defends the personality traits that every creative human being possesses and a person’s intellectual independence‚ which enables him to surpass the achievements of previous generations. Emerson explains how most of society is made up of conformists‚ people that simply conform to a past technique created by earlier innovators. Against being a conformist‚ Emerson chooses to support being a creator‚ or a person

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    fugitive slave was punishable by imprisonment. Though‚ this does not stop young Huckleberry Finn from aiding slave and fellow companion Jim‚ to a life of freedom in Mark Twain’s‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Both Huck and Jim are forced to escape the small town of St. Petersburg‚ Missouri and coincidentally seek refuge on Jackson Island in the Mississippi River. Huck and Jim elect to team up and journey to the free states of the North. Mark Twain uses the evolution of Huckleberry’s attitude

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    Tone: The tone of Huckleberry Finn is innocent to me. Huckleberry is a young boy that is just now being educated against his personal preference and he doesn’t fully understand the concepts of religion‚ education and life itself. “Then she told me all about the bad place‚ and I said I wished I was there. She got all mad then‚ but I didn’t mean no harm.” Another example of tone is informal humor. Huckleberry is says and does things throughout the story that were not initially supposed to be. “Hello

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    Huck and Jim Huck and Jim’s relationship is unlike any one I have ever read about before. Jim goes from being treated as a slave and being devalued as a human by Huck‚ to being seen nearly equal and a friend of Huck. The fact that Jim stays loyal to Huck through all of that shows the character of Jim as being a trustworthy and loyal friend. Huck views Jim as property and an ignorant slave that is below him. I believe that Huck thinks like this not because he is evil but because of the society

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    of religion‚ slavery‚ and democracy in the book Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. By exploring these themes that lie behind the book’s veneer‚ we can see how Twain had an objective when he wrote this book. That is‚ he hoped to achieve a wide symbolic scope. By unveiling the themes that are present in the book‚ we can see what Twain stood for and why he wrote this novel in the period he lived in. An Analytical Essay on Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain This essay will analyze the themes of religion

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    Interpretations of Joseph Campbell and the Hero’s Journey ____________________________________________________________ The Hero’s Journey: 1. Heroes are introduced in the ORDINARY WORLD‚ where 2. they receive the CALL TO ADVENTURE. 3. They are RELUCTANT at first or REFUSE THE CALL‚ but 4. are encouraged by a MENTOR to 5. CROSS THE FIRST THRESHOLD and enter the Special World‚ where 6. they encounter TESTS‚ ALLIES‚ AND ENEMIES. 7. They APPROACH THE INMOST CAVE‚ crossing a second threshold 8. where

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