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    <title>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Group at eNotes</title>
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        <title><![CDATA[According to "The Annotated Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain and Michael...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[According to "The Annotated Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain and Michael Patrick Hearn, Twain was already having a hard time wanting to do another "boy book." He had been working on suggestions made by friends on how the last part of Tom Sawyer should serve as sort of a prequel to the beginning of Huckleberry Finn. In the end, according to Twain himself, he was just tired of it, even quoting:

I like it tolerably well and may possibly...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[It is believed Mark Twain abandoned the manuscript of The Adventures of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is believed Mark Twain abandoned the manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for:]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Huck falls in an age group, from around 12-16, where support systems at...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Huck falls in an age group, from around 12-16, where support systems at home and society are most important to assure the safety and security of the growing child.
Unfortunately for Huck, he is basically an abandoned child- who is also emotionally scarred by an alcoholic father who not only deserts him, but once he is back with him, beats him up.
Huck had no concept of what normality was, and living with Widow Douglas was no picnic either....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:22:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What would you say are the reasons for Huck's low self-esteem?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What would you say are the reasons for Huck's low self-esteem?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:56:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[While Jim is sleeping, Tom hangs Jim's hat on a tree branch so Jim will...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[While Jim is sleeping, Tom hangs Jim's hat on a tree branch so Jim will be confused as to how it got there. Jim is highly superstitious and develops a story of being visited by witches who rode him around the world. All the other slaves are envious of Jim's experience, much to Tom's amusement.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 8 Jun 2009 18:07:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, what does Jim think happened to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, what does Jim think happened to him as a result of the trick that Tom plays on him?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:25:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[After Huck admits the truth to Mary Jane in Chapter 29 of "The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[After Huck admits the truth to Mary Jane in Chapter 29 of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" that the king and duke are imposters posing to rob the Wilks family of their inheritance, there also comes the moment of truth for the duke and the king in Chapter 30.  When the king attacks Huck for "tryin' to give us the slip," the duke comes to his defense, identifying with Huck as one fleeing from a mob,

'Leggo the boy, you old idiot!  Would...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:51:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Both admit (honestly) that they had thought about stealing the gold back...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Both admit (honestly) that they had thought about stealing the gold back from the orphans, but had not done it. The fact of their honesty is one point against their villainous natures. However, the greatest admissions come from the duke near the end of the chapter, where he curses the king for "wanting to gobble everything." He goes on to tell him that he should be ashamed for standing by and letting it "be saddled on to a lot of poor...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Chapter 30, the duke and king have managed to escape the crowd and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Chapter 30, the duke and king have managed to escape the crowd and meet up with Huck and Jim on the river again. The duke and king argue over who hid the money in the coffin, both swearing that they didn't do it, but eventually owning up to the fact that maybe they had each thought of taking the money themselves, but that someone else had done it before the duke or king could act on their desire. The two men are mean-spirited for sure, but...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In chapter 30 of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," what...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In chapter 30 of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," what admissions are made by the duke and king that prove they are not purely villainous?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The woman's views that a black man was killed, was normal reaction for a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The woman's views that a black man was killed, was normal reaction for a white woman at that time. It was perfectly normal for her to say that and totally within character. It was extremely satirical.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 16:07:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Huck not only voices the American spirit, but contains the essential...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Huck not only voices the American spirit, but contains the essential American qualities: a sense of liberty, a passion for freedom, a desire for exploration, rational thought and inquisitiveness--which gets him out of many jams and entanglements, a boldness for action, and the quest for adventure.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Huck Finn Project Sheet]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Duke and the King's motivation has nothing to do with guilt or any...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Duke and the King's motivation has nothing to do with guilt or any type of noble thought.  Because some are starting to question their identity as the heirs, they need to perform some gesture that will win unconditional trust from the Wilkes sisters.  By giving back the inheritance, they demonstrate their interest in the ladies' well-being and seem to be nobly motivated.  They have "studied" the daughters enough to know that they will...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 08:05:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Beside being a satire on frontier feuds, many critics also see this...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Beside being a satire on frontier feuds, many critics also see this episode as a commentary on the youths that died needlessly during the civil war. The Grangerfords and Sheperdsons have been fighting so long they can't remember how the fight originally started. When Buck and his cousin are killed, Huck sees a person his own age die needlessly. This has a tremendous impact on Huck. In fact he says he cannot describe the death and wished he...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 19:44:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Twain used satire quite a bit.  Satire is when he made fun of people,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Twain used satire quite a bit.  Satire is when he made fun of people, ideas, movements, or anything, really, that he found preposterous, ridiculous, frustrating, idiotic, or illogically popular.  During the time period that this book was written, there was a real-life feud going on down in Kentucky and West Virginia, between two families called the Hatfields and the McCoys.  It started off with one incident, went back and forth, and even...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[lrothman,
Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," a canonical text...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[lrothman,
Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," a canonical text of American English classes reveals a pragmatic and realist Huck, along with a romantic and idealist Tom. I wouldn't  suggest that Tom lives in a fantasy world, after all, it is Tom who leaves "five cents for pay" on the table for stealing the candles near the beginning of the book.
It can be argued that Tom does not live in a fantasy world for he has a clear...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 17:37:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," why did Twain include this...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," why did Twain include this adventure with the Grangerfords?
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        <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 16:40:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tom is a rather domineering character who is set on having his own way...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Tom is a rather domineering character who is set on having his own way about things. Tom is espcially excited for the opportunity to live out some adventure fantasies that he has, through the situation of Jim being a prisoner, and needing to escape.  So, Tom comes up with a bunch of nonsensical and illogical ways to make Jim's imprisonment and escape more difficult and challenging, which, to Tom, makes it more exciting.  At the beginning of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 16:25:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In these chapters, Tom takes Jim being held in the shanty on his aunt's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In these chapters, Tom takes Jim being held in the shanty on his aunt's property as a chance to live out all of his fantasies that have spawned from his excessive reading of adventure novels.  He has read many, many different scenarios of prisoners that had to endure terrible agonies, that in the end had daring escapes and came out triumphant.  So, Jim is the perfect chance, as he sees it, to enact some of these scenarios.  Huck is the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 15:58:35 PST</pubDate>
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