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    badly by his dad‚ and faked his murder to get away on the Mississippi river. He travels with a slave named Jim who heard that he was going to be sold away from his family for $800 so he ran away while everyone was running around looking for Huck. Both Huck and Jim run to Jackson’s island for safety. Eventually they both continued down the river so Jim can be free and Huck gets away from his dad. Twain uses the symbol of the raft and the river to express that society is cruel. In the book the raft

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    has an irrepressible subconscious desire to do away with his father so that he may be more intimate with his mother. Three aspects that corroborate this argument are: 1. Huck Finn’s unending will to separate himself from his father‚ 2. The Mississippi River as a symbol for Huck’s maternal figure‚ and 3. The character of Jim is a secondary maternal figure in the novel. Huck Finn possesses an unending will to separate himself from his father‚ Pap. In the beginning of the story we meet Huck’s father

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    Allouez at Chequamegon Bay in 1669‚ Marquette went ahead to construct the St. Ignace mission in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan‚ in 1671 before the exploration of the Mississippi with Louis Joliet in 1673. At the beginning of the journey in the Great Lakes and reports from Native Americans showed the probability that an awesome river depleted either west or south of the area. These stories kept on encouraging the trust that a northwest way to the Pacific stayed unfamiliar. French authorities authorized

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    of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. In this chapter‚ Huck‚ and his friend Jim‚ a runaway slave‚ flee to a raft they have been traveling on in the Mississippi river‚ to escape yet another incident that shows the degenerate state of society. In the beginning of the book‚ Huck and Jim are yearning for freedom‚ and find solace on a raft in the Mississippi River‚ one that they will depend on to facilitate their escapes from the atrocities of racism‚ slavery‚

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    The Secret River Research Assignment Question: Literary Texts can challenge or naturalise the ideas of society in which they are produced. Discuss making close reference to the novel that you have studied. Many novels naturalise gender roles‚ class structures and cultures of the society in which they were produced. Kate Grenville’s work The Secret River is a great example of such a novel as her utilisation of narrative techniques such as characterisation‚ imagery‚ setting and symbolism represent

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    apprenticeship. His true writings have not occured until he went back home to Hannibal. The two primary ideas Twain drew from are the environment of his hometown and from his past experiences. According to History‚ ¨he remembered it in Old Times on the Mississippi (1875)‚ the village was a “white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer’s morning.” Twain remembered the times he had exploring Hannibal‚ and he mentioned the areas he wrote in his stories. As a boy‚ Twain was able to canoe to Glasscock´s Island

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    Huck’s remark about the river--"The June rise used to be always luck for me?" -The river is freedom for Huck and Jim from all the issues in Huck’s life such living with his father and slavery for Jim. The Mississippi river is an escape for the boys. 6. What is the importance of Huck preparing his own death? - This allowed Huck to start a new life for himself‚ a rebirth kind of transformation. 7. What poignancy is evoked in the conversation Huck overhears on the river? - He overhears that

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    ` Conflict between the river and the shore in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn In contemporary society‚ people’s personalities often change based on the environment that surrounds them. These personalities affect society for the better or worse as they influence others. Contemporary society has the same conflict between societal rules and natural rules as illustrated by the differences of rules between life on the river and life on land for Huckleberry Finn. In pre-Civil

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    their consequences. Two texts that support this idea are “The Secret River” by Kate Grenville and “Life of Pi” by Ang Lee. These texts revolve around the realities and the endless possibilities that the protagonists have taken that alter their inner psychological mentality or their external geographical physicality. The texts that I have studied explore the paths that were taken but give an insight of the roads not taken. Secret River displays many aspects which support the idea that in any journey

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    runs away around the same time a young boy named Huck becomes bothered with his alcoholic father and widow who struggles to civilize him and runs away as well. Huck and Jim run across each other on the Mississippi River and grow together morally day by day as they trek across the Mississippi River to the free states. Huck and Jim’s encounters with people ranked all over in society and Twain’s use of satire exaggerates the faults in these people‚ who are representative of society.

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