Township Road Rights Offered: first North American serial rights Altamont‚ NY 12009 (518) 872-1305 johnfemia1@aol.com THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN: A PORTRAIT OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA by John Femia At the surface‚ Mark Twain ’s famed novel‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ is a thrilling narrative told by a 13-year-old boy who embarks on a perilous journey down the formidable Mississippi River aboard a tiny wooden raft. The story
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Essay 4 William Sheppard November 16‚ 2012 Professor: Kathryn MacDonald Relationship between Internal Quest and External Adventure In fantasy story telling the protagonist travels on an internal quest and external adventure. The external adventure delves into the situational adventure of the main character. This indicates the physical adventure‚ how the life of the protagonist unfolds to the reader. The internal quest dictates how the character grows emotionally. The internal quest is important
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the Tom Robinson case. Tom Robinson is a twenty-five year old black man who maintains a sense of invisibility throughout the Novel‚ has been falsely accused of a crime he did not commit. Tom Robinson is a young black male‚ who gets taken advantage of by Mayella Ewell. Mayella Ewell has falsely accused Tom of raping her‚due to the fact that he is a black man and she is a white woman.Whites are not to be associated with blacks during the 30’s‚ Firstly‚ the evidence building against Tom Robinson
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If there is an antagonist or a villain in the novel‚ it is Tom. He is racist and he generally mistreats everyone he comes into contact with. Tom loves Daisy but he treats her more like a possession than a partner. He is having an affair with Myrtle. During an apartment party with Nick and Myrtle’s friends‚ Tom breaks Myrtle’s nose for having mentioned Daisy’s name. Tom is also condescending to George‚ Myrtle’s husband. Tom also seizes the opportunity to implicate Gatsby in Myrtle’s death‚ thereby
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targets and have been preyed upon . In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Tom Robinson is a young black man who was innocent‚ very honest‚ and hardworking . Yet he was unfairly targeted as being a criminal because he was a 25 year old black man who lived in Alabama during the 1930’s. He always helped anyone who asked for it and he never asked a for a cent from anyone. Tom Robinson best represents the mockingbird in this novel because he does nothing but help others is kind. and Yet people took advantage
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GOTHIC NOVEL The word "Gothic" has ben variously defined and interpreteted by various writer. Leslie Fielder says that Gothic shoddy mystery-mongerine‚ whereas F. Gunworth Fields defines the Gothic tradition‚ as a literary exploration of avenues to death. The editions of "The Reader’s Companion to World Literature" consider the Gothic novel as a novel of horror based on supernatural. Montague summers maintains; Gothic was the essence of romanticism‚ and romanticism was the literary expression
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specific circumstances. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ a classic novel by Harper Lee‚ mockingbirds are symbolic of people who “don’t do one thing but sing their heart out for us” (Lee 119). In other words‚ mockingbirds are people who are innocent and defenseless‚ but their innocence is affected by the evil deeds of others. Dill Harris’ innocence is lost when he witnesses the inequality during the trial‚ identifying him as a mockingbird. Tom Robinson‚ an African American man in the story‚ is an exceptional
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child looking at the differences in society. The Tom Robinson trial is an important asset in To Kill a Mockingbird which emphasizes the racial injustices in court. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in Maycomb county and the father of the lead protagonist‚ Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. Atticus agreed to defend Tom Robinson‚ a black man accused
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The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire Arthur Conan DoyleThis text is provided to you “as-is” without any warranty. No warranties of any kind‚ expressed or implied‚ are made to you as to the text or any medium it may be on‚ including but not limited to warranties of merchantablity or fitness for a particular purpose. This text was formatted from various free ASCII and HTML variants. See http://sherlock-holm.es for an electronic form of this text and additional information about it. This text comes
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emphasizes the slaves’ right to family by focusing on its destructive effect slavery had on slave families at the time. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin to attack slave laws and the way that the slaves were being treated. Though out her novel she tries to advocate the freedom of slaves and of all people. In each of Stowe’s scenes she tries to persuade the reader that slavery is evil‚ against religion‚ and is hurting the people within society. Stowe shows the brutal relationship between
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