Mark Knopfler

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by the American writer Mark Twain. Although it was published in 1885, the novel is set in the southern part of Missouri during the 1840s, back when slavery was legal in the United States. The novel narrates the journey of Huckleberry “Huck”, a 13 year old boy, and Jim, a runaway slave, as they try to get Jim to a free state. The novel is considered a classic for its unique satirical perspective of racism and slavery in the United States. The excerpt…

The monomyth, also known as the hero’s journey, has been portrayed throughout a widespread of works of literature both alike and different. However, the techniques of the portrayal of the hero’s journey had always been different throughout works of literature that include this archetype such as A Long Way Gone and The Hobbit. A Long Way Gone is the true story of Ishmael Beah’s traumatizing childhood of being an unwilling boy soldier in Sierra Leone and how he was able to turn his life…

The laugh out loud comedy that explodes with outrageous wit and slapstick humor from the Coen Brothers. Underneath Professor (Hanks) silver tongued southern gentleman person is a devious criminal who has assembled a motley gang of thieves to commit the heist of the century by tunneling through his church going landlady’s root cellar to casino’s vault of riches. But these cons are far from pros. As their scheme begins blowing up in their faces, their landlady smells a rat. And when she threatens…

Mark Twain was a river boat pilot on the Mississippi River for a while before he wrote books, while Dr. Richard Selzer joined the faculty of Yale as a professor of surgery from 1960 to 1985. These two have been successful with within topics of how they wrote their books, focusing on Two Views of the Mississippi and Sarcophagus, these included: the audiences they were writing to and explanation of their topics, but they also had contrasting factors such as: the atmosphere they created, the…

Huckleberry Finn and Jim are new to the place and they fail to locate the mouth of the Ohio. They continue their voyage but their steamboat crashes down and both are separated unfortunately the next night. Huckleberry Finn is at the home of the kindly Grangerfords, a family of Southern aristocrats locked in a harsh and childish dispute with a neighboring clan, the Shepherdsons. The elopement of a Grangerford daughter with a Shepherdson son results in a gun fight in which a lot of people in the…

In 304 BCE Pataliputra (modern day Patna) Shubhadrang and Bindusara had a child and they named him Ashoka. Ashoka was an Indian emperor of the Mauryan dynasty. When he grew up he was a very bold, troublesome and a very cruel man. Ashoka was very interested in war and fighting. According to legend Ashoka had killed a lion a wooden stick. He was given a nickname called “Chand Ashoka” which meant “Ashoka the fierce”. Ashoka’s brothers were scared of him and his brothers convinced their father,…

Caesar Caesar was one of the great Roman leaders studied throughout history today known for his political and military strategies. Betrayed by the men he trusted the most in the Roman Empire, because they believed he was a selfish dictator and that it would be better for Rome if he was taken out of power. Gaius Julius Caesar a Roman public figure who led the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire through great military campaigns and the total destruction of people within Rome who became his enemy…

citizen.” It is very unusual for childish stories to represent culture and mood of the crowd (and writer specifically) in certain time and place? Only the great writer is capable of doing this, and I believe Samuel Langhorne Clemens (also known as Mark Twain) is such kind of writer. By comparing his two famous works: “The Adventure of Thomas Sawyer” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and especially by comparing their protagonists, we can observe change of the atmosphere…

Ancient Roman politician and army general Marcus Antonius (Marc Antony in English; 83–30 B.C.E), was an ally of Julius Caesar. Although Antony played a significant role in turning Rome from a republic to an empire, his efforts have been overshadowed by Caesar’s achievements as the head general. A direct descendant of the great Roman Emperors Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, Marc Antony was destined to be a leader. Much of Ancient Roman history revolves around Julius Caesar’s dictatorship—and…

Settings of the story: In the story, the pool which is nearby the river is the place where the two friends, Lennie and George’s story begins and ends. It is a very safe and sound place and moreover what happens later in the grove stays in the grove. The setting of this story is almost the same as compared with smallness and confinement as the plot. It occurs swiftly in a period of three specific days in four regions. The locations were a woody region which was just located next to the river of…