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    sneaking out of the widow’s household with Tom Sawyer and through the garden‚ Huck trips  over a root by the kitchen. Within the kitchen is Jim‚ one of Miss Watson’s slaves. Jim hears  the sound of Huck tripping and he goes to investigate. Tom and Huck then crouch down on  the ground to hide. Jim then announces he will stay until he finds out what made the noise‚  but then eventually falls asleep.    4. What contrast between Huck and Tom is established?  In chapter’s 1­4‚ the contrast between Huck and Tom that is established is that Huck is 

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    out that Jim had been turned by the king to the authorities for being a runaway slave. Luckily though Huck runs into good old Tom Sawyer to help him get Jim back. They are able to get Jim out‚ but Tom is shot in the process by a bullet. Tom treasures this bullet‚ since it didn’t kill him‚ and makes a necklace out of it. They give Jim $40 and set him on his merry way‚ freed. Tom goes to stay with his aunt and uncle‚ but Huck heads out west after refusing the offer that Tom’s aunt made to adopt him. After

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    In the first third of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ the southern 13 year-old boy protagonist Huck is stuck in a very peculiar situation; he’s a runaway hiding with an african-american ex-slave‚ along with Tom Sawyer- Huck’s friend of the past‚ who joins in the last third of the book. Before Tom’s reentrance into the story‚ Huck was on the path to moral maturity‚ progressively gaining empathy and new understanding of the world. Upon becoming a runaway‚ Huck was fed up with his life at home and

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    Brooke A. Andrade Mrs. Whalen Honors English III. 27 September 2012 Racism throughout Huckleberry Finn “But I reckon I got to light for the territory ahead of the rest‚ because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me‚ and I can’t stand it. I been there before” (Twain 279). In Huckleberry Finn‚ Huck tires of living in a civilized society‚ and escapes through the means of a river with a “nigger” named Jim. Although Twain is considered racist by some critics‚ he truly just reflects

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    Twain’s life influenced his work because he incorporated his mother‚ sister‚ brother‚ and friends as a base for his writing. He has written many well-known American classics such as those of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He was born November 30‚ 1835 in Florida‚ Missouri. He was born to John Clemons and Jane Clemons. Twain grew up on the MS River‚ so he had many memories growing up as a child. These included swimming‚ fishing‚ playing pirates‚ and pulling a

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    opens up to him and they begin to bond no longer as white boy and black slave‚ but as humans. Huck Finn is a character full of vivacity and personality who very much enjoys defying authority‚ being in nature‚ and being foolish with his best friend Tom Sawyer. However‚ once Huck and Jim steal away on a canoe and raft down the Mississippi River‚ Huck finds that he cannot pull off the same foolish pranks that he did beforehand; he is faced with the challenge of having to grow up. The first of Huck’s

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    ridiculous elements involved such as not even knowing what the feud is about‚ and then has them perish in a meaningless fight. Twain also adds humor and levity by mocking the ideas found in adventure novels. He does this through Tom Sawyer’s ridiculous plan to rescue Jim. By having Tom say‚ “You can get up the infant-schooliest ways of going at a thing. Why‚ hain’t you ever read any books at all?—Baron Trenck‚ nor Casanova‚ nor Benvenuto Chelleeny‚ nor Henri IV.‚ nor none of them heroes? Who ever heard

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    Satire: The Exposure of Southern Life Mark Twain wrote the renowned nineteenth century novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a humorist‚ with intentions solely entertain the reader. Although the author warns at the start of the book‚ “persons attempting to find a moral in this narrative will be banished”‚ he submerses the reader into Southern society to evaluate their values (Notice). Satirists seek to find motives behind people’s actions and by dramatizing the contrast between

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    encounter in the world. The distinctively visual represented in Run Lola Run by Tom Tykwer and the digital novel named inanimate Alice are very similar when it comes to the powerful images created within the text. Powerful images challenge our understanding of ourselves and our world in many methods these images help to create a story and ad in depth meaning to the text. The 1998 film ‘Run Lola Run’ directed by Tom Tykwer uses visual techniques to convey messages to the audience and involve the

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    something or wearing certain items‚ then the fans will likely want to as well. Cam Newton‚ however‚ is different than any of the sports celebrities in the media today because of the way he plays football and his personality is so out in the open. Tom Carroll‚ the CEO of the ad agency TBWA Worldwide‚ can remember the first time he saw Cam Newton on the sidelines and it was the year in which he won the Heisman Trophy.

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