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difficult times as he continuously decides to go against his society's morals. Huck encounters a lot of adversity as he gets in many dilemmas while helping a black friend named Jim escape to freedom. During their time searching, they float down the Mississippi River. The river symbolizes freedom. On the river they go through more adventures than a normal human being would have in a lifetime. Huck knew that this goes against all of his society's beliefs but thinks it is the right thing to do.…

Wallace Flood of 1913 The year was 1910 when it all started. In Wallace, Idaho there was a gigantic fire that practically destroyed the whole town. In 1913, there was an unusual amount of rainfall, which caused the river to flood. Shockingly, no one died, but many were severely injured. Unfortunately, during the fire the trees were all burnt to their stumps, and did not provide the usual protection from the flood. Due to the flood, Wallace had a huge drop in the economy, and the landscape was…

Huck and Jim, poor white boy and African slavery The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn is an important novel in American literature history. The protagonist, Huck, in the novel has been a controversial figure concerning his personalities, behaviors and unique friendship with Jim, and by creating such a figure, Mark Twain depicted a poor white kid and redefined the term “hero”. This essay, by looking at the novel from the perspectives of a non-American reader, will analyze Huckleberry Finn and Jim…

Saunders Summary It is interesting, there has been much ado about Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path.” Many essays and critical analysis Authors wrote about the story. Even Welty responded to the countless letters she received about whether Phoenix’s grandson is alive or dead. Included is Mr. James R. Saunders article “A Worn Path”: The Eternal Quest of Welty’s Phoenix Jackson. In his essay he includes others critiques, proves Phoenix Jackson is loving, and determined. In his essay Neil Issacs…

1960s. Stockett writes about Jackson, Mississippi telling stories about the Help and their white bosses. I would recommend reading this book for two main reasons: The cultural insight, and the pure joy of reading this book. The Help dives right into the heart of southern cultural, especially that of Civil Rights. We have characters like Hilly Holbrook, set that the separation of blacks and whites is perfectly fine. She represents most of Mississippi. Meanwhile, we have Skeeter, a young…

limited the rights of African Americans. Along the banks of the Mississippi River, a 14 year old boy named Huckleberry Finn (Huck) lived with his “pap”. Huckleberry Finn’s father was a hopeless alcoholic who was unfit to care for him ,so Huck spent most of his time with Miss Watson, who tries to civilize Huck with manners and education. Huckleberry Finn makes an escape from his abusive and greedy father to sail onto the Mississippi…

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us,” American writer, Joseph Campbell once said. Throughout Huckleberry’s Hero’s Journey there were many challenges that happened. Huckleberry impacted his life journey with the call to adventure, the refusal of the call, and the return. Huckleberry Finn was on a Hero’s Journey in the book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. As Huckleberry started his Hero’s Journey, he had a calling. The…

In the novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the main theme of social hypocrisy expose his opposing thoughts on the corrupt society during this time. Twain opposed the belief system and this shows in the thoughts of Huck and his transformation throughout his journey. Twain’s uses the two forms: racial and religious hypocrisy throughout the novel to show the corrupt belief system going on in this time period. Twain uses biblical allusions and imagery throughout the novel to…

On January 17th, St. Martinville, Louisiana’s 3rd oldest town, celebrated its bicentennial, beginning a yearlong commemoration of the small city’s storied history. St. Martinville is representative of many of Louisiana’s distinct cultural and geographic histories. Seated on the Bayou Teche, the water highway of over 100 miles has been an essential part of the settlement and commercial development of St. Martinville. The word “teche” may be derived from the Chitimacha word for “snake”, and some…

The process of the Mississippi River changing course was caused by the help of the water cycle, which is powered by energy from the sun. The sun’s energy evaporates water into the sky which condenses and precipitates. The rain from the water cycle caused erosion in the lakes, which increased the size of the Mississippi River and built up sediment, which clogged the river and made it change course into a new direction. The Mississippi River was also in a cycle of changing its…