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Well, Peter Wilks died. George and his wife died. Harvey was deaf and dumb—and then the duke and the king pretended to be Harvey and his doctor to steal from them, and create a huge fiasco when the...
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Twain is satirizing the lynch mobs who come like cowards after dark wearing masks. He thinks mob activity is cowardly.
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Tom has known that Jim was free: "He ain't no slave; he's as free as any creature that walks this earth!" Miss Watson, in her will, had freed Jim two months before. Tom keeps this information...
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Huck has a hard life as the novel starts, with little control over what happens to him and no parent figure he feels he can truly rely on. He has not been well educated and doesn't have much to...
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The Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords are two Southern families involved in a deadly feud, similar to the one that divides the Montagues and Capulets in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Though...
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Huck tells us right out that the Mississippi River is big. He says that, near the town, there's a big river a mile wide. Just how big it is, however, we only find out later on. The Mississippi...
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In chapter eight, Huck travels to Jackson's Island, where he is surprised and delighted to find Jim. When Huck reveals himself to Jim, he is under the impression that Huck is dead and initially...
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When Huck fakes his own death to escape his abusive father, he takes refuge on an island where he meets Jim, a slave who ran away because he feared he would be sold down the river and separated...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn is, as advertised, an adventure story. Plenty of swashbuckling events occur throughout the story, all of which are considered part of the plot. When I think about plot, however, I...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Although Tom Sawyer greatly disliked attending school and Sunday school, he seems to have learned more from them than he intended to. His education and his romantic nature lead him to believe...
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This question is asking for level 2 (and up) type questions, as those types of questions force a reader to provide an opinion based answer supported by textual evidence. Your questions could stay...
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After Tom Sawyer forms his robber gang—which he modestly calls "Tom Sawyer's Gang"—we can observe how he and Huck act as foils for each other. That is to say that the contrast in their character...
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Jim is a slave belonging to Miss Watson. As the story progresses, he becomes a more important character, playing a key part in Huckleberry Finn's numerous adventures. On their lengthy journey down...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Mark Twain’s classic adventure novel about a young runaway and an escaped slave traveling the Mississippi River, which symbolizes individual independence and...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
One could argue that Huck Finn is a flawed protagonist because he experiences self-conflict and struggles to decide whether to follow his heart or adhere to society's conventions. Growing up in the...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The theme of isolation is a very important one in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The title character is himself isolated by virtue of his status an an orphan, not to mention his stubborn...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Unless you are going to exclude The Last of the Mohicans, The Scarlet Letter, and Moby Dick from the category of American novels, it is not possible to argue that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The ferryboat is firing the cannon because of the belief that doing so will bring a dead body to rise to the surface of the water. Huck, whose peaceful morning silence is broken by this booming...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By humanizing Jim, an escaped slave, Twain makes a forceful case against slavery and racism. Jim functions as the father figure Huck has never had, highlighting the problems with assuming a person...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses the concept of travel to demonstrate to his readers the level of personal development Jim and Huck experience in their travels from location...
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Ultimately, Huck goes from holding racist views to letting them go as a result of his time with Jim. Huck is very much a product of his environment. He is raised to believe white people are...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is the quintessential individual against a society that seems odd, repressive, and unjust to him. In chapters 25–28, Huck is in most conflict...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
There are two principal problems relating to racism and language in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and at least two major arguments, which apply to both problems. The problems are, first, the...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
When it comes to the question of racism, Huckleberry Finn has been a controversial text, but there is no doubt that, despite perhaps making some mistakes, Twain wrote it to expose the cruelty and...
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At the very end of the novel, Huck says he is going to have to "light out for the Territory ahead of the rest." The "territory" is the Kansas territory, west of Missouri. Irony is when events work...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Although the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is extremely popular with educators and is taught in approximately seventy percent of American high schools, its use has always...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
What Twain is implying in the quote you provide is that royalty (real royalty like they had in Europe) were a bunch of corrupt people. He is saying that there was no reason that they should have...
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Colonel Sherburn is a store-owner and the richest man in town. He is insulted by a drunk man named Boggs in the "Arkansaw" chapter (Ch. 22). In regards to the mob speech, Sherburn describes...
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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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Chapter 21 opens with a description of life of the raft with the two frauds that have beset the lives of Huck, Jim, and the communities along the river. Here we see two examples of literary devices...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
While there are many lies told in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is the only character who lies at times for a noble cause. These are lies that Huck relies on Providence for there...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Satire is defined as "the use of humor and wit with a critical attitude, irony, sarcasm, or ridicule for exposing or denouncing the frailties and faults of mankind’s activities and institutions,...
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Huck learns to decide for himself in various situations the right thing to do. One of the central themes of the novel and of Huck's development relates to the notion of conscience. Huck is...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Much of the time Huck lies to protect himself against his father, or to protect other people, especially Jim, the runaway slave. In this manner, Twain satirizes the convoluted values of a society...
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In this chapter, Jim reacts to Huck's revelation that he and Huck, being English speakers, wouldn't be able to understand a Frenchman. Huck attempts to explain the difference by saying that a cow...
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Huck Finn has been called the "quintessential American novel." Ernest Hemingway said, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." I think Huck Finn...
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The central way in which Twain criticises society in this novel is through his use of a narrator like Huck, an outsider who views society from a certain distance and with almost constant...
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The dilemma lies in Huck's decision to turn in Jim, a runaway slave who belongs to the Widow Douglas, or to keep his mouth shut and allow Jim to escape.This would not have been a dilemma for Huck...
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When Huck's moral conflict (a driving force in the novel) reaches its climax, it is Jim's good nature and steady friendship that sways Huck to his decision. Earlier in the novel, Huck plays tricks...
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Some of the lying happens because Huck is the average American boy. Kids like to create adventures, and lying is certainly an excellent way to do that. As far as Huck's useful lies - most of them...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn provides a number of moral quandaries in which Huck and Jim find themselves. Already confronted with whether to run away from the Widow Douglas and...
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A few allusions that come to mind are shown in the Grangerford and Shepardson feud and the Hamlet soliloquy performed by the King in the traveling Nonesuch show. The feud between the Grangerford...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The climax of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn comes in the final chapters of the novel. After finally ridding themselves of the king and the duke, Huck still has to rescue Jim, who has been sold...
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To answer the second question first, the feud is reminiscent of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, in which a feud between the Montagues and Capulets makes forbidden the love between Romeo and...
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The major moral conflict throughout the story is Huck's struggle with having Jim, a runaway slave, as a traveling companion. Having grown up in a culture that saw slavery as acceptable, Huck felt...
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Themes are the ideas, often universal concepts, that are explored in a piece of literature. In Mark Twain's book "Huckleberry Finn," one theme that is explored is "Racism and Slavery." Even...
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One of the traits of humans that Mark Twain enjoys satirizing in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is hypocrisy, and the religious hypocrisy of Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas, who owns slaves....
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim represents different things to Huck that make him a father-figure. Jim loves Huck and forgives him when he his less than kind to him, and Jim...
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William Wilks (the deaf brother) communicates via sign language. However, he had broken the arm he uses to sign with, so he can't sign.
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Tearing up the letter is significant because it shows that Huck has rejected the racist attitudes of society and decided to follow his conscience. Throughout the book, Huck struggles with the idea...
