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    My Antonia By Willa Cather Pg 16 We learn of Jim’s grandfather’s influence. “But, as he uttered it, it became oracular, the most sacred of words.” The wording chosen in this passage illustrates the author’s prevalence to focus on personifying odd things such as words to convey certain important concepts, such as Jim’s grandfather’s broad influence. His influence suggested his wise demeanor, considering a major theme of Jim’s rebellious manner, especially towards his grandparents Pg 26 Mr.…

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, arguably author and journalist Mark Twain’s greatest achievement, is perhaps its author’s most profound work. Composed in the late nineteenth century subsequent to the abolition of slavery nationwide, Twain’s controversial novel audaciously tackles several taboo topics of the Reconstruction era, propelled by the author’s own unorthodox - and highly debated - beliefs. Twain’s iconoclastic ideas regarding the southern United States and its notoriously…

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    Aunt Sally, A Miss Guided Christian First off, the irony in the scene of Aunt Sally, all stems from her unawareness to her insensitivity for the value of an African American man’s life referenced as a ‘Nigger.’ However, her compassion for a Caucasian man’s life brings her sorrow. When Huck arrives at her farm, thinking he was Tom Sawyer she was happy, but rather distraught of his tardiness. Through her excitement, Aunt Sally is quick to question him on what had taken him so long to arrive. She…

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    American Literature, a hero can be defined as someone who is selfless, and courageous. In One who flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest selflessness is shown by McMurphy when he stands up for the other men in the ward.Courageousness is shown in the story The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because Huck had helped a runaway slave to freedom. These examples are seen throughout the stories read this semester. Selflessness; you think less about yourself, and more about others. One of the first examples…

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    the government, schools, philosophy, politics, and society. Satire may also be funny, sad, or critical. In all of Mark Twain’s books he uses satire because he was a humorist. When Twain uses satire, he means for it to be funny. In the story The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain, Twain constantly uses satire to point out the flaws in society and in people. Right off the bat within the first few pages of the story, Twain gives the reader the first satire. The first satire has to do with Miss…

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    In a modern world where nearly every effort is made to absolve, reconcile, and forget racism, it is understandable that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is controversial for its frequent use of the word “nigger.” However, in a literary world where content is revered over substance and such colloquialisms are seen as authentic, the plot of the novel is more controversial than any word imaginable. Throughout the novel, Huck Finn and his escaped-slave companion, Jim, travel down the Mississippi…

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    Huck Meets Jim's World

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    Huck Meets Jim’s World Racism has been a prolonged controversy throughout America. The use of racism in America in the 1840s is drawn in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain showing a young boy, Huck, who is growing into society’s morals of racism. These morals has brought Huck to be internally confused whether to help a runaway slave named Jim . Thus leading into Huck’s ever changing relationship with Jim. The novel is mainly about the friendship between Huck and Jim; without their…

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    Jim the Wise Overseer In Mark Twains’ novel, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Twain chooses to create his characters and allow them to demonstrate their traits and personalities within their own actions and thought patterns. For example, Pap’s speech to Huck and their relationship cannot be compared to even the intimate situation Huck and Jim shared while Jim told Huck about his family. Twain does not choose to depict Pap as being a father figure for Huck, he reveals Pap to be an indecent man…

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    The famous author Mark Twain describes his controversial book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as “a book of [his] where a sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision and conscience suffers defeat”(Twain). Rather than eroding the moral values of Huck, a young white boy from the Antebellum South, and Jim, a black slave fleeing seeking true freedom, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn succeeds in maintaining Huck’s status as a hero figure and Jim’s numerous positive qualities, thanks to…

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    Those who are ignorant of the past are doomed to repeat it; thus, it is imperative that Moorestown Friends School continue to teach The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Huck Finn) in order to provide a historical narrative that students would not normally be exposed to in an ordinary history nor English class. Huck Finn’s narrative of an adventuring young boy helps connect to a highschool audience, all the while satirizing the various key aspects of southern society. Although Mark Twain utilizes…

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