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    Roughing it OEQ Kyle Poeckh 1/11/16 First‚ Mark Twain had many jobs because his father died when Mark was 13. He quitted a lot of jobs because they were hard. Mark was a store clerk. He got fired at a food store because he ate all the sugar. He was a clerk at a bookstore‚ until customers kept asking him questions and Mark was getting annoyed. Next‚ Mark was not willing to work for the Virginia Newspaper Company‚ but he took his chances. Mark found out that the Virginia Paper needed people for

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    their father and all their money is stolen from them. Two families constantly feud and fight. They don’t even end this when they begin to lose all those who are close to them. These are all instances of people being treated unfairly. It’s man’s inhumanity to man that effects many aspects of this novel Huckleberry Finn. Whether people are treated unreasonably in financial matters‚ physical dealing with each other or people’s shallow mined racial views; these are all a part of life. This maybe only one

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    regions” (Kung and Hahn‚ The Mississippi Delta Chinese: An Audiovisual Narrative). Quon said that “the whites were empowered‚ the blacks‚ definitely out of power‚ and then the Chinese were kind of in the middle. We knew it was not right‚ but what could we do” (Kung and Hahn)? Raymond Wong had said‚ “We were-in-between‚ right in between the blacks and the whites. We’re not black‚ we’re not white so that by itself gives you some isolation” (Block‚ “The Legacy Of The Mississippi Delta Chinese”). It was clear

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    Dickens and Harriet Beecher Stowe; but one author stood out among them and his name was Mark Twain. Twain started a new trend of including new aspects of writing into his pieces such as voice‚ dialect‚ and satire. The one particular book written by Mark Twain that is known to be the beginning of American literature called The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ contains all three of these aspects. In the book‚ Twain uses the main character and narrator‚ Huck‚ to utilize his voice‚ dialect‚ and satire.

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    Life on the Mississippi 1. One example of the first point of realism is‚ “After all these years I can picture that old time to myself now‚ just as it was then: the white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer’s morning; the streets empty‚ or pretty nearly so; one or two clerks sitting in front of the Water Street stores‚ with their splint-bottomed chairs tilted back against the wall‚ chins on breasts‚ hats slouched over their faces‚ asleep-- with shingle-shavings enough around to show what

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    Mark Twain‚ Roughing It‚ New York City‚ Signet Classics‚ 1962‚ 448 pages‚ Appendix The book Roughing It is about the early journeys of Mark Twain is the west during the mining boom in Nevada and the Western States of the Union . Twain travels across the States to places such as St.Louis‚ San Francisco‚ and The Sandwich Islands in Hawaii. At the Beginning of the book Twain envisions that his brother will strike it big in the west. Later on he is offered a chance to accompany his brother in a journey

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    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the author Mark Twain critiques the 19th century society. He does this by making multiple comments about racism. To help develop Twian’s comment on racism he uses Irony‚ Satire‚ and Conflict. In the novel the idea is given that blacks are less superior than the white man. If a black was to have certain actions‚ such as being smart or kind‚ everyone is surprised because blacks are viewed almost as if they are animals. Twain also makes many remarks about how if a black

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    Twain and Lying The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ by Mark Twain‚ starts out talking about lying. Finn says “This book was made by Mr. Mark Twain‚ and he told the truth‚ mainly. There was things which he stretched‚ but mainly he told the truth”.(1) Finn then goes on to say “I never seen anybody but lied one time or another”.(1) Twain is letting the reader know upfront that this book is going to be about lying. Throughout the book Twain gives examples of different types of lies. The lies

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    Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: the Autistic Point of View In Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time‚ the narrator‚ Christopher‚ utilizes his autistic standpoint to give readers a different point of view. Because of this autistic point of view‚ Christopher views the world differently and in this passage‚ Christopher explains his thoughts which enable the audience can read and observe the point of view from someone who is autistic. In excerpt of chapter 29‚ Christopher

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    2A 29 October 2015 What does the Mississippi river symbolize throughout the story? The river is a symbol of freedom in Huck’s journey to New Orleans. In the beginning of the story‚ the river was a form transportation in order to escape captivity. “I was powerful glad to get away from the feuds‚ and so was Jim to get away from the swamp...We said there warn’t no home like a raft‚ after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery‚ but a raft don’t.(Twain 18.6)” To Huck‚ the river portrays

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