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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In asking this question, I'll assume you're referring to the storm that occurs in Chapter 9 ("The House of Death Floats By"). When the storm begins in this chapter, Huck and Jim are sitting in the...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
While the N-word is a problem, the issues with the novel go deeper than a mere word. Context is everything, and critics complain that the deeper issue is the way Jim is stereotyped as a childlike...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain persuades his readers to listen to their individual consciences and abide by their own moral codes instead of following a hypocritical society. He also encourages his audience to be...
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Reference
Huck learns many lessons throughout his journey on the Mississippi with Jim. The most important of these involve caring and moral responsibility. Huck is a child who has never had a chance to...
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Throughout the novel, Harper Lee portrays the importance of following one's conscience and standing up for what is right. The novel persuades the reader to follow Atticus' morally upright character...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In the final chapter of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck announces he's going to continue his travels to escape Aunt Sally's attempt to civilize him. To some readers, this might seem to...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck Finn feels most comfortable and loved with Jim on the raft; therefore, Jim is more like family to him than anyone else. Unlike all his other living situations, Huck feels both physically and...
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Moby Dick
First, according to a search on the Google Ngram viewer, this particular phrase "living life to its fullest" originated in the 1920s, had a few brief years of moderate popularity, and then did not...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck knows the two men are frauds because they are running away, but he doesn’t want to make trouble so he goes along with it. Huck knows a king or a duke would be gaudily dressed and full of...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
One source about the changes in the character of Huck Finn is the article "The Flawed Greatness of Huckleberry Finn," published in Mizzou Magazine on May 21, 2013 (see the link below). Written by...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Jim runs away because he finds out he is going to be sold. Jim is Miss Watson’s slave. When Huck runs away from his father, faking his death, he finds that Jim has also run away. Huck feels like...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Pa is portrayed as an uncaring and abusive father by Mark Twain as part of his satiric commentary on social ills in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In the late 1800s, there was a decline in the...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim proves to be a very superstitious character, as he interprets a variety of signs as omens of both good and bad luck. The most prominent...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Examples of satire abound in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but perhaps none are as excellent as the duke and the king. Two of my personal favorite characters, the duke and the...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In chapter 2 ("Our Gang's Dark Oath") of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Tom Sawyer sneak out in the middle of the night and encounter Jim, Miss Watson's slave. Tom plays...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In Chapter 9 of Huckleberry Finn, Twain commences his main theme of Nature/"Natural Living" vs. Living within Society. It is with pictorial description that Twain sets up the contrast between the...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
There are several places in the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn where Huck lies because he is scared for his own safety or the safety of Jim. One instance is when Huck gives Judge Thatcher...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This is a very good question! If Joanna is part of the family, why doesn't she eat with them? Why does she eat with the servants in a different room? Sadly, her family treats Joanna as if they're...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In chapter 24, the innocent young man on the raft tells the King about a deceased man from the area who is named Peter Wilks. Before he died, this wealthy man sent for Harvey and William Wilks, his...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn, almost from its publication in 1885, has been the subject of banning and censorship. Just one month after its publication, the public library in Concord, Massachusetts banned the...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The first major reason why Mark Twain's classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should remain available to students and others in public libraries is the fact that it remains a brilliant...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck frequently worries about the fact that he's helping Jim, a runaway slave. Through Huck's musings and fretting, we ascertain that the society...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This quote is often attributed to Mark Twain, but it does not appear in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or any other of Twain's works. In 1919, nine years after Mark Twain's death, the adage was...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
While wandering down the river, Huck and Jim run across a steamboat named the Walter Scott that has run aground in the Mississippi River. Huck wants to go on board to scout out the boat, and even...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This part of the novel is very entertaining, but it also shows a key division between the two characters. Tom, who constantly reads and reenacts adventure stories, thinks the whole thing sounds...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Pap, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, is almost the worst father one can imagine. He is an ignorant, abusive, racist alcoholic. However, even though Pap is an unsympathetic...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck outsmarts Pap when he saws a hole in the wall and when he uses pig’s blood to fake his death. Huck started planning his escape when he got tired of his father beating him. He developed an...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Julius Lester’s analysis of the way Twain characterized Jim as a black slave is his main argument in his critical essay. Lester believes that if Twain was writing an anti-slavery book and using...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In order to help you answer this question, I need to know the title of the critique to which you are responding. For example, Julius Lester wrote an article called "Morality and Adventures of...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In Mark Twain's time romanticism (books about adventure, exotic places, extreme emotions, etc...) was popular. Twain was interesting in that although he was critical of romanticism, he also wrote...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In Chapter 25, the duke and king deceive Mary Jane, her sisters, and the townspeople by pretending to be Peter Wilks' brothers who are visiting from their home in England. The king pretends to be...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
These are some of the main themes of the novel. I will give you a brief explanation of each. Freedom Although often considered one of the first works of literary realism, there are also strong...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck's apology to Jim is very significant because with this act, Huck acknowledges an equality between him and Jim; he begins to perceive Jim as fully a human being about whom he has genuine...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain criticizes Christianity in Huckleberry Finn for its advocacy of slavery. Huck, for example, has learned through the church that slavery is a moral and beneficial institution. The novel...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck has seen plenty of death in a few short chapters in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In Chapter 18, he sees his friend Buck die in the bloody shoot out during the family feud between the...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck's crisis could be summed up as his natural sense of decency and morality colliding with conventional southern moral teachings. Conventional morality, buttressed as Huck understands it, by the...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Throughout both The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain never mentions a full or middle name for Huck Finn. However, in Chapter 11 of The Adventures of...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Satire is the use of irony and humor to criticize some aspect of society. Twain uses satire often throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to criticize, for example, the South’s treatment of...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a brilliant satirical piece, and there are many ways in which Twain lampoons his targets. One of the best examples of satire in the novel occurs...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Flapdoodle" is a slang word used by Mark Twain in the 25th chapter of Huck Finn. The king and the duke are con men who are trying to bilk the Wilks' daughters out of their inheritance, $6000 in...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins with a reference to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in order to acknowledge that the character of Huck (as well as the characters of Aunty Polly, Mary, and...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim and Huck first begin their raft journey at the end of chapter 11 ("They're After Us!") and the beginning of chapter 12 ("Better Let Blame...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
While Huck and Tom are sneaking away from Huck's house, they are nearly caught by Miss Watson's slave, Jim. When they are running through the garden, Huck trips and wakes up Jim, but Huck and Tom...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In this last episode of the novel, Tom is shot in the leg trying to get the mob of farmers coming to get Jim from the shack to chase him instead of Huck and Jim. When Huck and Jim find Tom, Jim...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In Mark Twain's novel, Huckleberry Finn's adventures are more like vignettes than chapters; the flow of a single story is difficult to pin down, and some readers find this confusing and...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
There are many examples of southern regional idioms in Huckleberry Finn, as Mark Twain captured the local dialect that was then spoken along the Mississippi. Jim uses a regional idiom when he says,...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
When Huck is mistaken for Tom Sawyer by Aunt Sally, Huck is ready with one of his famous lies. Huck is “quick on his feet” when it comes to being able to adapt to any situation. It is also at...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is called a picaresque or rite of passage story. It is a story about a young boy who grows up through the obstacles and hardships he faces, through the decisions...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Many readers and literary critics are disappointed in the last episodes of the book. The episode begins when Huck pretends to be Tom Sawyer because Aunt Sally is expecting Tom to visit the farm....
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
One of the main reasons that the king and duke are nearly successfully at swindling the Wilks sisters is because the sisters trust their emotional responses instead of closely examining the facts....