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    Society encourages individuals to associate wealth with success and happiness, thereby allowing individuals to accomplish foolish and malevolent acts in order to gain societal success. Society gives out travesty on how wealth correlates with success and happiness, which forces individuals to accomplish foolish and malevolent acts in order to gain a disillusion of happiness in wealth. During Huck’s journey, he meets two hooligans who call themselves The Duke and The King; they lie to and steal…

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    Mark Twain, an ingenious writer, develops a book call The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This book primarily focuses on an orphan boy call Huckleberry Finn and a runaway slave call Jim. They venture on the Mississippi River to meet and explore the world’s danger and social classes throughout the country. Moreover, social classes can create racism thereby, each social class needs to become more accepting of each other. Twain creates this intricate society by placing together various social…

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    In Tim Parks’ “Why Readers Disagree”, Parks argues that great art helps the audience to pay tributes to their old perspective. Parks mentioned the theory of “system theorists see people as constantly taking the position developed within the family into the larger world” in his essay, and he agreed with it. This theory highlights how people take their positions developed over time within smaller communities into the greater ones. This action is what caused the difference between people’s…

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    Whihmville Stories (Hendler 34). The novel depicts characters and situations that appear to be drawn from real life. It belongs to realism which was a famous trend in the nineteenth century literature. Despite the romantic portrayal of children’s adventures, most of the children are themselves, not romanticized ("Themes"). Mark twain had emphasized his own youthfulness and naiveté and for him to move from young adulthood to boyhood was natural. He was aware that he could write, without notes or…

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    In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain uses his characters’ language, as well as the topics in which they converse on, to add entertainment value and dimension to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Through his use of language, Twain creates two characters that become archetypes of the “all-American boy”. These archetypes hold a strong interest in Twain’s young American population and makes his novel entertaining to those interested in the adventurous, roughhousing, genuinely pure ideal of an…

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    Artificial Nigger Racism

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    In short fiction there are numerous works that exhibit racism. In the short story “Artificial Nigger” by Flannery O’Connor, the two main characters show racism during the 1930’s. The two main characters, Mr. Head and his Grandson, Nelson, show readers that anyone can exhibit racism. Even though there is gap on how old they are, the way they make other people feel inferior, and themselves superior, towards other races shows their morals. Racism was shown by both Mr. Head and Nelson and the age…

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    reader that something very noteworthy will happen. Then, as he breaks the news to the reader, this final example of irony concludes the main plot of the novel and leaves the audience puzzled at first, but soon satisfied with the outcome of Huck’s adventures with Jim and…

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    history is without a doubt is Mr. Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. Mark Twain is known for his incredible realism novels that showcase life in its purest form. In Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain challenges the idea of racism and family dynamics in the 1800s through the adventures and life of a young boy and a runaway slave. As this pair travels down the Mississippi they face many trials and tribulations that test their strength and relationship. In order…

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    Huck Finn's Maturation

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    Maturation is something that every person in their lifetime must go through in order to grow in their way of life and in their beliefs. It is seen many times that some people mature faster or slower than others. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck goes on a journey to freedom with Jim and along that journey he matures drastically because of it. Along this journey, Huck is escaping from society’s expectations and rules, since his beliefs are not in line with those of society’s. This quest…

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    read and were fans of Hawthorne’s through his good writings and his bad. He wanted to avoid any social biases in his writings because he could form some enemies and lose some fans. The arrangement of Hawthorne’s introduction is constructed to demonstrate his main purpose and his inspiration. The purpose of the piece was to explain on why he wrote “The Scarlett Letter” and to be informative as well. His purpose also was to explain his inspiration, which was the artifact while working in Salem’s…

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