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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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    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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    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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    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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    Critical Perspectives 10/26/2005 Cabin Fever Pudd ’nhead Wilson‚ by Mark Twain explores a wide range of identity issues through its plot. Twain uses many characters to portray life in a small town called Dawson ’s Landing in Missouri. One of the issues that Twain brings to our attention is the relationship between the identity of his characters‚ and to the setting. Living in town as small as Dawson ’s Landing in the time period the story was set in has a serious impact on the lives of Twain

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    The name Mark Twain (twain- to cut something in too) has something to do with steamboating because he was briefly a pilot on a steamboat many of his writings have to do with Steamboats--especially Huck Finn Famous for both nonfiction and fiction Tom Sawyer was a childrens book set out Huck finn as a childrens book but it became much more serious Other books between children/young adults Wrote nonfiction- Life on the Mississippi Famous as a humorist and he is outwardly a realist Realist-preceding

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    The friendship between Tom and Huck is a strong one. Tom is always looking for adventure and Huck looks up to Tom. The friendship between Huck and Jim was a growing friendship throughout the book. The aspiring friendship between Huck and Tom‚ and Huck and Jim come up numerous times throughout the book. Let’s start with the friendship between Huck and Tom. Tom is a child who looks for adventure wherever he can and loves the thrill of adventures. Huck‚ looks up to Tom and if Tom is trying to have fun

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    Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain‚ who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel‚ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He is 12 or 13 years old during the former and a year older ("thirteen or fourteen or along there‚" Chapter 17) at the time of the latter. Huck also narrates Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer‚ Detective‚ two shorter sequels to the first two books. Biography Huck is the son of the town’s vagrant

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    Talented Mr. Ripley Insanity is a behavior that is often judged by our society. If one behaves in a manner that contradicts the societal norm‚ he is ostracized for his inappropriate actions. Insanity however is not to be confused with irrationality. Tom Ripley’s many immoral acts‚ namely‚ murder‚ forgery‚ and deceit could be perceived as insane; however‚ when one takes into consideration the calculated motives behind them‚ it is evident that they are merely irrational. Tom’s irrational‚ yet shrewd

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