Tom Brady

My view on the topic after my research When I originally started this project my initial standpoint was that all forms of animal captivity are wrong. I still stand by this in terms of SeaWorld, circus animals and wildlife parks that simply do not care about the animal’s welfare but what has really changed my mind on the topic is UK Zoos. From communicating with Flamingo Land, Blackpool Zoo and Belfast Zoo, it seems like they all have one common goal in mind; conservation and making sure the…

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered to be one of the most famous and thought-provoking American classics of the 19th century, yet modern school systems are struggling to decide whether to include this masterpiece within high school curriculums. Written by Mark Twain, the novel follows the travels of Huck Finn, a young rascal who escapes his constricting environment to join a runaway slave along the Mississippi River. They encounter many life-threatening situations that represent the…

No matter how far Jim tries to runaway, Jim remains unfree. Initially when Jim and Huck attempt to runaway, Jim voices that he specifically wants a “raff” because “it doan’ make no track.” No matter where Jim goes throughout the novel, he will remain unfree unless he is able to make it to Cairo. Cairo is Jim’s promised land where he can truly be free from the chains of slavery. In order to get there, he has to avoid all the people who are a potential threat to his freedom. He understands the…

In Mark Twain’s fiction novel, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Twain comments heavily and satirically on the faults of society through a child who independently decides he believes differently. Facing challenges a bit stretched out of the realm of realism, he learns what is really important, and what is not. Fighting for what he believes in and rebelling against the norm comes through his eyes simply as helping his friend. He is doing the right thing, even when everyone else says it is wrong…

dad and the entire town to believe that he was dead. He even mentioned that Tom would love doing all of the things that he was doing.”I was all over welts” (Twain 24) Pap beat Huck so frequently that Huck’s back was completely covered in welts. This shows that Pap was a very bad parent and shouldn’t be raising a kid. Huck wasn’t even that bad of a kid, he was just a bit rowdy at times but he was nowhere near as bad as Tom. There is a difference between discipline and what Pap does, discipline is…

In the beginning of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is kidnapped by his alcoholic, abusive father and is forced to live with him an isolated wood cabin. Soon enough, Huck runs away, and in the beginning of his journey to freedom, he encounters the familiar face of Jim, a slave who has run away from his owner, one of Huck’s hometown neighbors. Ostensibly, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about two people undertaking a shared journey towards freedom. Later in the book,…

Tom and Huck are known to be very similar characters, but they are in fact very different. They live completely different lives and process thought differently. So despite the fact that they are the same age, live in the same area, and period of time, they are completely different. One is loved by family, while the other is alone with a nasty drunk as a father. One attends school and Sunday church while the other is unable to read, write and doesn’t get the chance to attend church. One…

Tom Sawyer is the embodiment of the idea of treatment towards African Americans during the 1800s. In the beginning of the novel the reader already can see that Tom does not have concern over the way Jim is treated, “When we was ten foot off Tom whispered to me, and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun... Tom said he slipped Jim’s hat off of his head and hung it on a limb right over him” (15). The reader can start to recognize that Tom does not view African Americans…

In the beginning of the book Tom ran a gang, which Huck was in, and they talked about robbing and murdering people. During this time Tom’s gang attacked a class of kindergarteners and tried to steal their things but they ended up pretty much empty handed and disappointed. Though they never followed through with robbing and murdering people, the gang eventually fell apart. Huck has matured from that and it shows when Huck and Tom are reunited in the end of the book and make a plan…

society should act. Other characters, such as Tom and Miss Watson, also affect if Huck does the correct action. Lastly, Huck’s own way of thinking determines the path he will take. First, Huck’s upbringing affects how he performs decisions and if he goes with the moral decision, or the immoral one. Huck’s dysfunctional upbringing causes him to be oblivious of how society and society’s norms work. Huck’s father is not the best man, and when Huck tries to join Tom Sawyer’s gang, they say he has…