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    in this story. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn starts out with a brief description of the previous book‚ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Both boys stole twelve thousand dollars in the previous book; each boy got six thousand a piece. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are both young boys growing up before the Civil War along the Mississippi. Both boys are mischievous but Tom is the one with all the plans‚ he reads a lot which gives him these ideas‚ which are fairly eccentric. Huck Finn does not live with

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    Huckle Beryy Finn

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    CHAPTERS 1-3 Identifying Facts 1. He doesn’t like how mothering she is of him‚ since all he wants is to be free and he thinks he can take care of himself. 2. Jim was sleeping when they snuck out‚ so Tom played a trick by placing his hat on the branch above his head; when Jim woke up‚ he told everyone that a witch flew him all over town and then placed his hat up there. 3. Huck says that a man would float on his back‚ and not on his face‚ unlike that drowned person. Interpreting Meanings 6.

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a story like no other. Huckleberry Finn story is mainly about limitation and liberation. What us “peoples” to believe about. Huck’s journey down the Mississippi River is represents the everyday American highway of endless possibilities about what is going to happen next. Mark Twain basically transforms a boy’s adventure tale into what people would say to be one of the world’s great books. Huckleberry Finn was one of the first novels to be written in‚ narrated

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    because it represents the way of life in the south during the 1800’s. Tom represents a part of the southern society because he is a wild‚ free from authority‚ and uneducated with absurd ideas. “Now‚ we’ll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer’s Gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath‚ and write his name in blood.” (Tom 19) Tom’s gang is with the boys from his neighborhood‚ like his friend Huck. Tom is the leader of the clan and they listen to his commands. His gang

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    not only for its cinematic qualities but for its historic insight as well. Platoon is an Orion Pictures production‚ filmed in 1986. Written and directed by Oliver Stone it tells the gruesome story of a Vietnam War not known by the American public. Tom Beringer‚ who plays the experienced Sergeant Barnes‚ was nominated in the Best Supporting Actor

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    Tom Brennan Narrative

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    I am Tom Brennan‚ it has been 10 years since accident happened. My older brother Daniel has been released from prison 5 years ago. First five years after accident‚ my family decide to move to somewhere else. My sister and I found a school‚ we made lots of new friends. My mother was in tears all days‚ we persuaded her some days‚ about one year later‚ she pull up her slacks. That day was cloudy. It may rain every minute. I went with my parents to take my brother Daniel home. He has changed. His face

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    reasons I agree with that statement. Well first of all he was brave for risking his life in helping Jim escape. Second reason was that he dressed up like a girl in order to save Jim from being captured and face consequences. The last reason was he told Tom about helping and helped Jim from being

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    is Huck’s struggle with Tom in helping Jim escape. Tom sends Huck and Jim through a wild adventure to free Jim because of his Romantic thinking. Tom represents society and its Romantic ideals while Huck struggles to break away from these and become his own realist individual. These Romantic ideas lead Huck into many dangerous situations that pit Huck and Jim as Realist individuals versus a society infused with Romantic ideals. Huck first begins to realize that he and Tom have different viewpoints

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    and Tom Walker Near a swamp in 1727‚ Tom Walker and his wife live there miserly lives. They are so greedy that they try to cheat each other and they are constantly fighting. One day Tom makes a shortcut through the swamp and finds an Indian skull with a tomahawk in it. Tom kicks the skull and hears a voice. He looks up to see it’s a black man sitting on a stump. Tom recognizes him as the Devil. The Devil talks about Kidd’s buried pirates treasure and confirms it is real and offers it to Tom with

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    Holliday’s Hill and the caves close to the summit‚ where he may have played pirates just like Huck. A close friend of Clemens was Tom Blankenship‚ the son of the village drunkard‚ who was to be immortalized years later as Huck’s friend Tom Sawyer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer). Tom Sawyer is Huck Finn’s best friend in the book. Tom freely invents lies and loves adventure‚ just as Tom Blankenship did. When Clemens was just a young boy he

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