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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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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
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
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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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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
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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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
As Huck and Jim floated down the river, one of Huck's nightly errands was a visit to a village along the river to find some food for the journey. Huck had some money and could purchase food with...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tom is a slightly more civilized version of his friend Huck. Both are wild, mischievous boys who disdain the civilized world's sense of rules and decorum. Both have grown up in dysfunctional homes;...
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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
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck's mother does not play a part in the story. However, Huck's father is one of the most evil and malevolent characters in the book. He is...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Widow Douglas means well. She wants Huck to take his place in civilized society—a civilized society based on slavery, but that's by the by—and be like all other young men his age. So she gets...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
I believe the Duke and King, the fraudsters who kidnap Jim, don't sell him so they can use him as bartering power. Their deceit has been found out, in part because of their weak attempt at forging...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
It is a foggy night that causes Jim and Huck to miss Cairo and freedom. I think the fog symbolizes the confusion Huck feels about helping Jim escape. Huck has been raised in a racist society, and...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
After Huck's abusive father obtains custody of him, Huck realizes he will have to get away from him for good if he is to survive. His alcoholic father beats him, locks him up, and once, when drunk,...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
For most of his young life, Huck Finn has lived outside the bounds of domestic life; his only relative is a father, who is a violent drunk. As the novel begins, the young boy goes to live the Widow...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
It is vitally important to realise how this important scene in the novel links in with one of the major themes: the coming of age of Huck and his maturing into a character who is able to make...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A theme found in both books is the hypocrisy of self-righteous society. Both books represent corruption of the American dream. Huck and Nick are both outsiders in the society they are trying to...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck’s assessment of himself in the first three chapters is Twain’s humorous use of an unreliable narrator. Huck is uneducated and is only thirteen; nevertheless, the inadvertent truths that he...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck is bored, and wants to go into town to see what is going on. He dresses as a girl, and this is how he finds out that the town believes that Jim killed Huck and is now offering a $300.00 reward...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A massive part of the irony of this excellent novel lies in the way in which the events are narrated to us through the eyes of Huck. As an unreliable narrator who often is very innocent about the...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The reason the resemblance is ironic considering these two escape plans is that the elaborate nature of Huck's escape was necessary and the elaborate nature of Jim's escape was not. Huck had to...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Widow Douglas and Miss Watson each try to be a friend to Huck in their own way, but the widow is more gentle and Miss Watson is more scolding. Huck says that the Widow Douglas “took me for...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
An example of a character that is supposed to be respectable is Colonel Grangerford. The Grangerfords are a supposedly respectable family and seem nice enough—except that they are in a feud to...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
After Huck and Jim rescue the two con men, the Duke and the King, the two con men immerse themselves in another scam. EXPOSITION One day the king has Huck tie up the raft so that they can ride on...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
You can see Moses as a motif in this novel because of the Biblical significance of Moses and because of his significance to slave society in general. In the Bible, Moses led the Israelites out of...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In Chapter XXXI, Huck finds that the social and religious codes he has been taught cannot be reconciled with with the realization that Jim is a good, kind person, and that there is no way to...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
As stated in the Explanatory at the beginning of the book, Mark Twain was very conscious of the many dialects that were in use in the part of the American South that served as a setting for Huck's...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In my opinion, this is because all of these people are rural people who are essentially not very worldly. They do not know very much about what things are like in the larger world and so they are...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The basic ideas of Emerson's Self Reliance are 1) One must trust oneself, and 2) The ideal is to exist in the present, as nature does.These two basic beliefs are quite prolific in Huck Finn. Huck...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck has always considered Jim as a friend, unlike the duke and the dauphin, who think of the runaway slave as little more than property. When Huck runs away and discovers Jim also residing...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck feels sympathy for the King and the Duke, despite the frauds they have perpetrated against so many innocent people and despite the fact that they betrayed and sold Jim. In this act, they have...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The developing and changing identity of Huckleberry Finn in this excellent story is something that is well worth focusing on. The change in Huck's character can be detected most clearly and...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
We can look at some examples of what he has said regarding the issue, to get a clue to his feelings on the matter. Right in chapter one, Miss Watson is telling him all about "the bad place" (Hell)...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
For Huck, being on the river means freedom from his pap, from school, from church, from dressing nice, from sitting up straight, from not swearing, etc. He's able to use this adventure as a method...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck encounters the moral values of his friend, Tom Sawyer, who based his concept of right and wrong on what he read in adventure stories. Huck admires Tom for always making an adventure out of the...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
One of the underlying currents throughout Huck Finn is Twain's disillusionment with the idea of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. He was a realist in every way, and greatly ridiculed the idea that...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
One of the ways in which we can clearly see the moral development and growth of Huck Finn is through his attitude to the murderers on the sinking ship that he and Jim have just entered. When they...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck has just witnessed the death of Buck, one his close friends, who is killed in a senseless duel between the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons. This shocking event is something new for Huck and he...
