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    Lauren Schlegel Mrs. Carino English 10 Accel 31 October 2011 The Prince‚ the Pauper‚ and Huckleberry Finn Samuel Langhorne Clemens was mostly known by Mark Twain his pen name. He spent the majority of his life on writing and public speaking. Twain is an exceptional writer. One can tell this by how he evokes emotion thorough his writing and catches people’s attention. He does this through different elements in his writing. In‚ The Prince and the Pauper‚ and‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry

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    and make Jim return to Miss Watson‚ but instead he goes against what is considered ‘right’ in his society‚ and does what is right‚ which is a massive step and this displays how Huckleberry Finn is a bildungsroman. At the beginning of the novel‚ Tom Sawyer convinces Huck that in order to become one of the ‘robbers gang‚’ he

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    1. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are best friends that have many things in common and many things that are not in common. Tom is better at using his imagination. In the beginning of the Adventures of Huck Finn Tom makes a robber band with the neighborhood boys. Huck soon decides that it is boring because they were not doing anything that Tom promised they would. Huck could not pretend that they were doing what Tom said they were doing. This is again illustrated in the end when Tom and Huck are trying

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    unexpected adventure he is to embark on. Huck’s childhood consisted of childish games with his best friend Tom Sawyer. Huck’s days were filled with games of pretend that were supposed to be actual adventures. However‚ many of the adventures were figments of Tom Sawyer’s imagination. This is important to know since Tom’s description of an adventure is something that is not real and everything Tom reads contributes to the adventures him and Huck have. Huck’s adventures‚ though‚ are ones that are unforeseen

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    beginning of the novel‚ Huck Finn showed immaturity‚ gullibility‚ and did whatever his best friend‚ Tom Sawyer‚ told him to do without thinking about what he was doing‚ or why. During Huck’s journey with the escaped slave Jim‚ he matures into an adult figure with a well-rounded perspective.

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    In American literature realism‚ is an approach that attempts to describe life without idealization or romantic subjectivity. Realism has been mainly concerned with the commonplaces of everyday life among the middle and lower classes‚ where character is a product of social factors and environment is the important element in the dramatic complications. The realism sought to explain why ordinary people behave they way they do. What‚ for example‚ fuels the ambitions of a young man who has come from

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    In the novel‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ by Mark Twain‚ the author uses dialects and‚ someone say‚ vulgar language to bring to bring forward many of the issues society faced in the time period following the Civil War. With the use of many different dialects in the novel‚ Twain is not only able to create vivid‚ realistic characters but is also able to show his beliefs concerning education‚ and family upbringing through his characters. The main character‚ Huckleberry Finn‚ has a unique dialect

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    A disguise through Society Huck Finn‚ the main character of Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ travels down the Mississippi River in search of personal truth and freedom‚ which ironically he achieves by living a lie. Huck’s journey causes him to wear a variety of disguises and masks to survive. Unfortunately however‚ the people he meets along the way wear disguises which they use to deceive and cheat the same society that Huck and Jim‚ a runaway slave‚ are trying to escape from. Jim must

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    the adventures of a thirteen year old white boy‚ Huckleberry Finn and a slave named Jim. He slowly reveals that ‚while the novel deals with racial issues indirectly‚ the book is truly about friendship. We start this when Twain brings Tom Sawyer into the story. Tom was Huck’s friend in the opening chapters of the book. He had convinced a band of boys to form a gang and have adventures like the ones he’d read in books. However after a month‚ the boys in the gang got bored and quit. Tom’s adventures

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    Would Huckleberry Finn fit in on Kwajalein? No. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Huck is taken in by the Widow Douglas‚ and she tries to teach him good manners and to “civilize” him. Huck rebels against this and disobeys her at first but then he doesn’t mind it. Huck’s father‚ an abusive drunk‚ returns and takes Huck away from the Widow. His father beats him and locks him in their cabin and Huck decides that he is going to run away. Huck leaves on the river and finds

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