Tom Bombadil

Twain uses the duke and the king to portray characters that are selfish and inconsiderate. Huck dishonestly sneaks out of the house with Tom to warn the conmen. Uncle Silas and Aunt Sally are very innocent and loving people, they treat Tom and Huck with such kind hearts. Tom and Huck risk ruining their trusting relationship with Sally and Silas in order to save the duke and king from being tarred and feathered. Huck contemplates, “I didn’t believe anybody…

Joseph Cambell’s hero's journey, was based on his idea of a monomyth. Which sparked the idea of a young boy starting a journey at a very young age, by the well known Orson Scott Card. Orson Scott Card was inspired by this in order to create the award winning novel, Ender’s Game. This novel is about a boy named Ender and how he began his hero’s journey at the age of six to later on in his training to be tricked into doing something so immense, which he did not anticipate would have happened so…

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…

A friend of mine who is very in-the-now decided a long time ago she wanted to look like more like the group of girls at our school who are “the ideals.” Through the years she accumulated UGGs, leggings, North Face jackets and a North Face backpack. She wanted the brands these girls had and she wanted to look and act like them, soon becoming immersed in all their characteristics and rituals. One day, I saw her come in with an Aroma Joe 's cup, but I know she doesn’t like coffee, which she was…

Character Development The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is about a young boy, named Huck, who was raised by a race that thinks they are superior than others and were taught the same way. He did not have a mother and his father was never home, but when he was home he mistreated Huck. Due to the abuse from his father, Huck decided to run away from home, but Huck was not the only one that ran away. Jim, a slave, ran away as well the same day that Huck day. Though Huck knew Jim…

In this day and age people often feel self entitled, wanting results without actually putting work in. Whether it be photoshopping a picture to hide imperfections, ordering takeout instead of cooking a meal, or cheating on a test, these few examples just scratch the surface of outcomes we rely on occurring without investing any substantial work into. This phenomenon has been going on now for ages, even visible in classics such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. This novel,…

One night Huck goes on an adventure with Tom to steal items from Miss Watson’s home. However, Miss Watson’s slave, Jim, falls asleep on a tree. Tom wants to “tie Jim to the tree for fun” (Twain 9). Since slaves are considered property, Tom wants to play a cruel trick on Jim. If Jim were a white man, Tom would never suggest to tie him to a tree without doing anything to deserve it. Similarly, society did not consider black…

A community is a group of people that share similar characteristics and have a feeling of fellowship with others. To provide charity to strangers is to care for someone out of the pure goodness in one 's heart. These two aspects come into play in both, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Angela’s Ashes. “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.” (208, McCourt). These small words from Mr. O’Halloran give the students advice that they’ve probably never heard…

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…