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    In the ¨Adventures of Tom Sawyer¨, Tom was a young boy who witnessed a murder. Tom should definitely tell the sheriff after witnessing the murder of Doctor Robinson.He should tell because he should always tell the truth no matter what, the town will never be the same and this will be a case for a long time, and he feels guilty and this will haunt him forever. Tom snuck out of the house and finds Huck, waiting with his dead Cat. They make their way into the old, junky, and scary graveyard. Then…

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    Literary devices can help a reader further understand a major theme of a novel. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about a boy named Huck who goes on a journey down the Mississippi River with Jim, a runaway slave. As they travel down, they encounter challenges that will trouble Huck’s conscience. One of the major themes of this novel is “coming of age” or growing up. Through his use of plot and characterization, Twain shows how Huck matures throughout the novel. Twain uses plot to show how…

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    Madison Cannon The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn There are so many conflicts in Huckleberry Finn, considering there are a lot of chapters in this book. One major conflict in this book is the difference between the Widow Douglas and her sister. In this particular conflict, this resembles the power of faith by contrasting different types of Christians. Mrs. Watson represents a holier Christian, that believes she is perfect in following all the rules and staying within the lines. The widow…

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a timeless American Classic by Mark Twain, yet its ideas and philosophies are debated to this day. Many did not like the morals present in the book, along with the language, ideals, and actions of the main characters. The book targeted the controversial topics of the day and would forever be surrounded by that controversy which originated from the very backbone and attitudes of the everyday man. For Mark Twain in his novel, Huckleberry Finn uses Pap's…

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    may be even more difficult to decipher. Though the Missourian dialect and the themes of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn initially created adversity in my abilities as a reader, the benefits have proved to have outweighed all costs. Mark Twain’s classic novel has not only allowed me to expand my reading capacity, but it has also challenged and helped evolve my views on literature. When first beginning Adventures of…

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is often referred to as “The Great American Novel.” But it has been getting a lot of criticism and hate because some don’t see it as a satire; instead, they see it as an excuse to make fun of Southern Americans. To truly understand Twain’s message, we must realize that Mark Twain uses caricature and structural irony to criticize upbringing determining one’s view, suggesting society’s morals are deformed. Twain uses caricature to indicate the society’s view on…

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    Racism In Huckleberry Finn

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    Mark Twain’s ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ novel is an interesting novel that has received mixed reactions and criticism. It was published in 1884 I did not like for Mark Twain to keep using the word ‘nigger’ frequently in the novel. This is because the phrase was and still is frequently used to negatively stereotype African-Americans during slavery and currently. Slavery had been abolished by the US Congress several years before this novel was written. The novel is believed to be full of…

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    In 2011, the NewSouth Publishing company revealed their intentions for a new edition of Mark Twain’s classic, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, and has caused plentiful of controversy in the public. Alan Gribben, a Mark Twain scholar, and the company joined together to create this new edition and made a rather large decision to replace the ‘n word’ with other words found more suitable. The word appears more than 200 times and is to be replaced with words such as “slave”. Their hope was to…

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    other topics that he brought-up were slavery, poverty, and class differences (Samuel). Since Twain was a young man he had become severely concerned in the treatment and life of slaves. A good example of showing the real life of a slave is in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn the character Jim is a run slave and the story goes into what his life would be like if he was free. In some stories Twain uses the characters to criticise others and put them under the spotlight, sometimes they were…

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    Mark Twain, exposes the evil in his society and he mainly tells truth about society and he says,“You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter... there was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth”(Twain, p.9). The Twain is kind of muckraker who exposes society’s problems by writing a book and he speaks about racist culture. In the other hand, Huck characters saw more superior than Jim character, however…

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