Tom and Huck

The Brixton Brothers, The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity is a book about a boy named Steve Brixton. He is a 12 year old amazing detective and can solve crimes and problems with ease. He uses support from his mom Carol Brixton and step dad Rick Elliott. His best friend and partner in his work Dana, is very cooperative and helps Steve be proud of his work. He is a hard worker and no obstacles can ever defeat Brixton, Steve Brixton. His detective adventure begins in a library when he was…

Walking down the narrow streets of a village in China, dogs were scattered. The majority of them were homeless, roaming around in search of food and shelter. The sight urged me to adopt every single one, however it was impossible for me to adopt them on my vacation stay in China. This is only a chip of what animal mistreatment looks like in our society today. From animal experimentation to factory farms, the abuse can been hidden away from the eyes of our society (Clemmitt 3). However, with the…

set in a period where slavery was still preeminent and conforming to society was expected, Huck and Jim fight for Jim’s freedom while traveling further and further south. Jim, a slave, ran away from his owner’s house and found Huck, who faked his death and ran away. Huck is faced with the obstacle of choosing whether to reject society’s racist views and help Jim, or conform to society and turn Jim in. Huck decided to assist Jim in his escape to the north, rejecting society and creating an…

Should animals have the same rights as humans? This is an ongoing debate that could end in one of two ways: either animals are granted rights and the lives of animals change to benefit them while humans lives change in a way that could harm them, or animals are denied rights and life goes on just as it has for years and years. In his essay, Why Animals Deserve Legal Rights, Steven M. Wise, a specialist in animal-rights law, strives to persuade his audience to incline towards legal rights for…

The Lives of Animals is a metafiction novel based on a lecture given by a fictional character named Elizabeth Costello. Elizabeth is an animal rights activists who presents at Appleton College to inform other people on her values of how animals are treated so unethically. Moreover, Costello emphaisizes her belief that humans do not need to eat meat to survive. Moreover, Costello strongly disagrees with the use of farms (which she refers to as factorieies) and slaughterhouses where animals are…

In Jon Hassler’s Grand Opening, Brendan Foster proves that becoming an adult requires a conscious effort to right one's wrongs and make peace with one's foolishness. Brendan showed us that he was willing to betray a true friend in order to improve his status. We saw this when he ditched Dodger, “The more thought he gave it, the clearer it became that in order to be accepted by his glamorous classmates he would have to put a distance between himself and Dodger” (44). When Brendan saw that his…

the United States. Through many characters, mainly Tom, Stowe illustrates the heart-breaking realities of slavery to her readers. One instrumental way that Stowe did this was through the rhetorical device of antithesis. Two characters who embody Stowe’s use of antithesis are Tom Loker and Mr. Haley. Haley is described as a “short, thickset man” (3) and Loker as having a body expressive of “brutal and unhesitating violence” (66), emphasizing that Tom Loker is more abusive with his slaves. When…

In the passage, “The Last children in the Woods,” Richard Louv describes how times have changed since he was an adolescent boy. Louv argues that modern technology has caused the youth population to become disengaged with the world and instead engaged with their screens. Louv employs first person, vivid diction, emotional appeal and anecdote to convince the reader to stop the madness that technology has done to the world and instead look towards nature and a more simplistic life. Louv…

slavery was legal in the United States. The novel narrates the journey of Huckleberry “Huck”, a 13 year old boy, and Jim, a runaway slave, as they try to get Jim to a free state. The novel is considered a classic for its unique satirical perspective of racism and slavery in the United States. The excerpt above is from chapter 15 of the story, when Huck plays a mean joke on Jim, making Jim believe that when Huck got lost and almost died drowned in the Mississippi river, was all a dream. This…

The monomyth, also known as the hero’s journey, has been portrayed throughout a widespread of works of literature both alike and different. However, the techniques of the portrayal of the hero’s journey had always been different throughout works of literature that include this archetype such as A Long Way Gone and The Hobbit. A Long Way Gone is the true story of Ishmael Beah’s traumatizing childhood of being an unwilling boy soldier in Sierra Leone and how he was able to turn his life…