Yakov Suleymanov Senior thesis December 2008 Do you think you have role models in your life? Someone you can look up to and say “I Want to be like him”. If yes‚ first of all you have to ask yourself what is a role model? A role Model is a person who serves as a model in a particular behavioral or social role for another Person to emulate. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by
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Huckleberry Finn is probably the most controversial character in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Huck‚ as he is more commonly known‚ is the idol of most children growing up; at the same time‚ he is despised by the children’s parents. Huck Finn‚ in all of literature‚ is well-known by many people. “Huckleberry was cordially hated and dreaded by all the mothers of the town‚ because he was idle and lawless and vulgar and bad — and because all their children admired him so” (Twain 33). Huck is the son
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His friend Tom sawyer keeps showing bad examples to Huck throughout the story. For example Tom convinced Huck to sneak into Widow Douglas House with him. When they are in the house a guy named Jim is sleeping and instead of just leaving he decides to mess with him.’’ Tom takes Jim’s hat and hangs it on a tree-limb Afterwards’’. This is one example of why Huck is still trying to figure out
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encourages Huck to question many of the teachings he received from both Pap and Miss Watson. Multiple times‚ Huck chooses to go to hell rather than conform to cultural standards. This journey to maturity and independent thinking is contrasted by Tom Sawyer. Tom lives in the society Huck purposefully avoided and because of that is immature and less morally astute. Huck’s journey down the river with Jim shows that a true education can not be found in formal schooling‚ but in one’s own mind‚ one’s relationships
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lies that Twain uses in his storytelling is childish lies. Childish lies are harmless fibs that do not harm anyone. They are told for amusement purposes. Both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn tell childish lies throughout the story. Tom tells childish lies to in order to entice his friends to join in on his adventures. For example Tom tells the innocent fib “…he got secret news from his spies”(14) as way to get his friends to help him crash a Sunday school picnic. Finn use a childish lie to trick
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sobbed with them‚ believing the con-men were the brothers (206). Huck Finn reacts to this my saying‚ “It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race” (206). Tom Sawyer also exposes Huck to the blind acceptance of society when he forces Huck to accomplish tasks in a very inefficient way because it is written in the books. Tom is even quoted in saying‚ “It don’t make no difference how foolish it is‚ it’s the right way – and it’s the regular way‚” which ridicules people for foolishly not questioning
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changes and develops continuously throughout the story. However‚ even though he develops new ideas and seems to have a better understanding of morality towards the end of the book‚ he is quick to return to his old ways when his troublesome friend Tom Sawyer returns. In the end of it all‚ Huck still has characteristics of a racist and tends puts himself before others. He is only willing to do the right thing if it makes him feel better or if he’ll have a guilty conscience either way. Twain first introduces
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major American literature to be written in the vernacular- that is entirely in dialect- characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by the main protagonist‚ Huckleberry "Huck" Finn‚ a good friend of Tom Sawyer‚ and is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book satirizes a Southern antebellum society‚ focusing on their attitudes‚ particularly racism. Before reading the book one must be prepared to hold witness to a frequent use of the “N”-word‚ although the novel is clearly
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John Locke was a prominent English philosopher who once claimed that children are empty vessels waiting to be filled. Locke’s reasoning was that grown-ups had the impact to form and shape kids into being whatever the grown-up wanted. Similarly‚ Mark Twain‚ the creator of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ includes numerous literary elements to portray how the grown-ups in the novel impact Huck’s point of view on life. In Huckleberry Finn‚ Twain uses literary techniques of irony and exaggerations
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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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