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    Professor Nancy Reincke English 060 17 October 2012 My High School Reading List: Huck Finn or Uncle Tom? If I were a high school English teacher and I could only choose either Uncle Tom’s Cabin or The Adventures by Huckleberry Finn to teach in my American Literature class‚ I would go with the latter. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe is a classic novel published in 1852. It is said to be‚ by some people‚ the book that triggered the Civil War. By discussing the issues of slavery of

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    Man versus Nature In the story "The adventure of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain‚ many of the characters were facing some tough choices which were to either do what society believed in or do what they believed is right. Among the people that was mostly dominated by such choices‚ Huck Finn was the most critical character to always have to make these choices. In many occasions‚ he found himself on the spot to satisfy society but denied to do so because he does not care of what

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn includes an uncommon relationship that helps a reader understand the world of the antebellum South. When Huck Finn‚ a young‚ naive‚ lower-class white boy trying to escape his father finds Jim‚ a fugitive slave‚ their adventures present him with a renewed‚ more accurate perception of society. Stuck on a raft drifting down the Mississippi River‚ Huck and Jim learn many new things about their world as they pass by numerous people and towns. Their encounter on Jackson’s

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    Julian Vandaele Ms.Kreiger English 10 November 28‚ 2012 Special Edition Tragedy has struck the town in Arkansas‚ the shooting of our local drunk Mr. Boggs. It all started yesterday when Boggs was travelling through the town doing his usual town rants and threats towards people. Now‚ usually people in the town would just ignore the drunk‚ thinking that he is harmless. Mr. Sherburn‚ on the other hand‚ is a different kind of man. He is aggressive and very serious when it comes to threats (as

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    Huck Finn Character Analysis The fictional literary character that I have chosen to analyze is Huckleberry Finn (Huck for short) from the book “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Huck is a thirteen year old boy who comes from a poor background and has been raised up to this point‚ by his uneducated‚ uncivilized‚ drunkard father. The story takes place in Illinois during pre civil war times. Widow Douglas and Miss Watson have taken him in and are attempting to civilize him. In this

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    Huck Finn is a very clever at thinking up ideas‚ even sometimes when he has no time to think. This theme is shown throughout the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He always seems to have a clever solution for squeezing his way out of a tight situation that either he or Jim gets into. One example of Hucks cleverness is when he gets locked in the cabin by his drunkard father. Huck takes his time in figuring out an elaborate plan to escape from the clutches of his father. Not only does he figure

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    Huck Finn vs. Judith Loftus The women presented in the novel so far are mostly smarter than the men presented. One of these women is Judith Loftus. She outsmarts the trickster himself‚ Huck Finn. Mrs. Loftus is a hypocritical maternal figure. Up until this point‚ Huck has been a very good liar. He has been able to outsmart and trick anybody he wants‚ but not Judith Loftus. He is out of his element during his meeting with her. First off‚ he is dressed as a girl. This situation makes

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    In the novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Beloved the authors Mark Twain and Toni Morrison both use their main character as the vessel to show evolution. Twain connects Huck to Jim and Morrison connects Sethe to Beloved to show how their interactions of the characters allow them to evolve. In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain use Jim as Huck’s guide to evolution. In the beginning of the book Huckleberry is seen as very childish‚ he doesn’t know where he belongs. He soon starts to

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a classic novel about a young boy named Huck Finn who goes on an adventure. The timeline that Mark Twain focuses on throughout the novel is during the time of the slave trade and the main plot of the story takes place on a journey going through the Mississippi river. Huck’s story starts out introducing him as a runaway kid with other characters such as Jim and the Grangerfords family‚ who had a strange tradition of killing a member from their rival

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    demonstrated. In Mark Twain’s classic‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ the main character‚ Huck Finn‚ is greatly influenced by his jaded father‚ Pap Finn. Through Pap’s actions he becomes worthless in the eyes of young Huck. Twain uses Pap’s abusive and absurd behavior to emphasize Huck’s desison making in his transition into adulthood‚ and to show hope for Huck’s future. Youth‚ hope‚ and change are all the things that Huck represents and Pap is against. Pap is what one would consider a resentful

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