Mississippi Delta

In the book “Missouri and North Arkansas Line,” by James R. Fair, a good portion of it is used to describe the flooding in spring of 1927. Only a couple mention is made of the late 1926 floods along the White River. The book by Walter M. Adams about the White River Railroad does not mention any problems until the April floods. One letter from H.J. Armstrong, Chief Engineer of the M&NA, says that something else happened about the first of the same year. In his letter, Mr. Armstrong writes about…

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Getting rid of Mark Twain's original Huckleberry Finn from national education would not be such a bad. It would allow for a more diverse set of books used nation wide. As demonstrated by the National Council of Teacher of English the top 10 most commonly read books in High School, Huckleberry Finn came in third for the public school with 70% of all national highschool requiring it and also, came in third place for private high school with 56% of them requiring the student to read Huckleberry…

Literary Analysis Mark Twain is widely recognized as one of the most important writers in American literature . The effect of his discipline approach to the short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County” incorporated figurative language like simile as well as hyperboles to further expand the the characteristics of the frog as well as other characters . He also incorporated hyperboles to exaggerate the certain situation and features the characters have . Furthermore in the short…

doan’ know yit what he’s a-gwyne to do. Sometimes he spec he’ll go ’way, en den agin he spec he’ll stay”. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is around a young man, Huck, looking for flexibility and experience. The shores of the Mississippi River give the background to the whole book. Huck is grabbed by Pap, his intoxicated father. The text description from Huck’s part shows how uneducated people in the past in terms of their language usage. In Jim’s part, it shows the language…

Huck suffers from moral dilemmas and fluctuations in what he thought throughout the novel. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a novel about a young kid’s search for his identity and self belonging. Mark Twain’s novel was first published in 1884 and he said that the novel was set forty to fifty years before the time of publication. The novel was based just before the Civil War; roughly around 1835-1845. Huck struggled with conforming with his father’s way of being racist. Jim…

The weather here in Texas was hot as usual. Mostly it has been quite here in Antler the only thing that's new in Antler. There is a new person in town and he isn’t any ordinary kid. The kid weighs over five hundred and is the biggest kid in the world. However, the kid lives by himself in a small camper. Me and Cal been trying to get him out of his hot and sticky camper and have fun but he is very stubborn. Also I almost forgot his name is Zachary Beaver and he is very rude. Me and Cal been…

Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” is a short story about an old woman, Phoenix Jackson, going on a heroic journey to save her grandson’s life. Welty uses symbolism to develop the theme of family love Phoenix shows to her grandson. This Mississippi writer uses object, life, and christian symbols to backup the theme of love. Eudora Welty uses object symbols to support the theme of love. The first object symbol uses is life saving medicine. Phoenix’s grandson swallows lye in which makes it difficult to…

It is seen in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer multiple times that Mark Twain's point of view is defeatist, though it is arguable that it may rather just be realistic and shows how cruel society can be. This can be seen as he depicts the harsh society surrounding Tom in a very negative manner. Twain does this many times throughout the book, some of these include, the way that Tom and Huck were treated prior to finding gold and after finding gold. Another is the amount of prejudice there is towards…

first author that is still alive to have her works published by the Library of America, which is a tremendous accomplishment for Welty being a female writer prominently in the 1900s. Welty was born and raised, then continued to live in Jackson, Mississippi where her house is designated as a National…