Michigan's Adventure

right track. Alice had continued on, hoping to get home for Wonderland was a great adventure to her. Alice kept going, soon finding that if she had a court with the Queen she'd be certain…

street smarts. Over the years there has been many debates on which type of education is more useful. Mark Twain presents his ideas on which form of education is better through the actions and attitudes of several of his books characters. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain characters Huck, Miss Watson, and Tom all have different views on education. Huck tends to use his common sense more often throughout the book, and also voices his displeasure of school often. When Huck is…

This story introduces a newly married couple on a train heading to Yellow Sky, the groom’s home town, from San Antonio. This is a Western story set sometime back in the 1800’s. His name is Jack Potter and he is the sheriff of Yellow Sky. After having left his town to obtain a wife, he returned newly married without telling the people in his town of his marriage. When he arrived at Yellow Sky, he tried to avoid people because he thought that they would start to celebrate. To his surprise Scratchy…

As many people grow up and age or have major events happen in their life they begin to grow up or mature. This has people develop a respect for certain things or a sense of dignity for themselves. It helps them make better choices in life. Scott O’Dell uses man versus self as a form of conflict in his novel, The Black Pearl, to show how Ramon starts to grow through realizations in his life and how others act to him and how others react around him. This establishes a sense of growing up and…

In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, author Mark Twain attacks the corruptness of Southern civilization after the Civil War. Through Huck’s wild journey in helping a runaway slave named Jim, Twain ridicules numerous problems facing American society in the 1800’s to give the reader insight on the social horrors embedded in the culture and lifestyle of Americans in the South. In particular, Twain satirizes the South’s perspective of “civilization” within white society and the…

In some stories, the reasoning and inspiration for the title is either found out instantly or at the end, and in some stories the title isn’t ever truly figured out unless you really think about it. The short story “Poison” by Roald Dahl is appropriately titled because of the story's plot and the simmering tension between Harry and Ganderbai, which could be seen as 'poison' in the way it effectively shows how racism and discrimination are ugly and horrible infections in our society. Firstly, The…

Throughout history, many books had to be ban due to the controversy surrounding it or because of its content. Mark Twain’s “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn” is one of the most banned books of all time throughout America due to the controversial contents and topics it touches upon. However, many people have took the book at face value and misinterpreted the book and what Twain was trying to accomplish entirely thus causing the book to gain mass controversy.The book in reality touches on serious…

In the short story “On the sidewalk, bleeding” by Evan Hunter there is a boy named Andy and he gets stabbed because he was a part of a gang known as the “Royals”. Many people refused to help him and judged him because of the jacket he was wearing, he later then died. Clothing can play a big role on how a person thinks of someone, in this situation Andy was wearing something that people looked down upon and for that he faces a big consequence. Therefore because of the gang name on Andy’s jacket,…

Satire allows satirists to critique society, not through senseless remarks, but through carefully constructed subtle biting remarks. Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn during the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War, yet it takes place prior to the actual Civil War when slavery was still commonplace. This allows Twain to retroactively satirize pre-Civil War United States with his knowledge of how American society would change in the coming years. In order to satirize the…

Huck throughout the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn faces a battle between his sound heart and his conscience, that has been deformed by society’s “stereotyped social patterns” (Martin 105), as he makes his journey away from society. As his journey continues this inner battle becomes more evident and Huck’s sound heart overcomes society’s views despite many situations where his conscience starts to take over. One of the first situations where this battle comes up is in chapter 15. As…