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Mark Twain’s ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ novel is an interesting novel that has received mixed reactions and criticism. It was published in 1884 I did not like for Mark Twain to keep using the word ‘nigger’ frequently in the novel. This is because the phrase was and still is frequently used to negatively stereotype African-Americans during slavery and currently. Slavery had been abolished by the US Congress several years before this novel was written. The novel is believed to be full of…

In 2011, the NewSouth Publishing company revealed their intentions for a new edition of Mark Twain’s classic, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, and has caused plentiful of controversy in the public. Alan Gribben, a Mark Twain scholar, and the company joined together to create this new edition and made a rather large decision to replace the ‘n word’ with other words found more suitable. The word appears more than 200 times and is to be replaced with words such as “slave”. Their hope was to…

The dialect that he uses allows people to connect and be closer to the characters, it also allows readers to understand and believe the story more (Alexander). The reason behind that is because he also wrote was local color, or the showing the dialect, history, or customs of the area (Samuel). The terrible grammar used in Twain’s writing meant that the books were easier for poor people to read. Mark Twain had a personal sympathy for innocent and well-meaning people because of his humble…

Mark Twain, exposes the evil in his society and he mainly tells truth about society and he says,“You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter... there was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth”(Twain, p.9). The Twain is kind of muckraker who exposes society’s problems by writing a book and he speaks about racist culture. In the other hand, Huck characters saw more superior than Jim character, however…

My Slobovia native friend, Abner Scott, contacted me indicating that he was getting the opportunity to come to America for the first time. Abner has never visited America let alone anywhere outside of Slobovia. In his native home of Slobovia, he does not have a lot of things because he lives in a third-world country. I was excited when Abner contacted me with the great news of being able to visit America. After he reached out to me, I started planning things for him and me to do while he was on…

On 1st August, 2007, an eight-lane, three-span section of the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, suddenly collapsed. 145 people were injured, and thirteen died. This case study is based on an investigation of material evidence provided by the NASA Safety Center(NSC), National Aeronautics and Space administration (NASA), National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and a full-scale load rating of the bridge superstructure. Proximate (Direct) Cause: Gusset plates…

Firstly, the author describes the erosion, siltation, and water diversions of the Colorado River. Then People began to build the Hoover Dam. There are two different viewpoints. Some conservationists believe that there were many mistakes that human made from Colorado River, so people should stop dam construction. It is in contrast to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Ironically, the government provides many subsidies of public power…

The River Journey In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the setting has a large influence Huckleberry Finn. The story takes place before the American Civil War, in about 1835-1845, and is about a kid, Huckleberry Finn who lives with his abusive father and a slave, Jim, who runs away from his owner. Twain uses the Mississippi River as one of the novel's most important symbolic figures to the stories plot. Both protagonists: Huckleberry Finn and Jim, start their journey…

Morality plays an important role in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck Finn is an uneducated, thirteen-year-old boy who does not necessarily know the difference between right and wrong, but he often makes the right choices throughout the novel. He helps Jim, a runaway slave, escape even though he knows it is “wrong.” However, there are many instances where Huck does not treat Jim with respect and there is some evidence that Huck would not help other runaway slaves in a similar…

The Amazon rainforest should allow the rubber tappers to control the land because they are better for the environment and they are more adapted to the rainforest. For one, they protect the rainforest and its livelihood. The rubber tappers also use trees to make products like tries for like cars and bikes. The rubber tappers were the first to the Amazon rainforest that been there for many generations. According to the article Interest Groups “Since they lived there for many generations they…