Tom o' Bedlam

During the past decade, the acceptance of certain individuals and lifestyles has become more common, but the acceptance of criticism and prejudice has been a disaster. The country of America has come to a stage where they are afraid of offending any individual. With the making of “space spaces” on a college campus and the removal of certain “offensive” works in American literature, where does the country draw the line on whether the shielding of the young minds is a good thing or a bad one? The…

June 19, 1929- Gang of rum runners kidnap photojournalist, Horace Wild, for Border Cities Star. The following details come from an interview between Marty Gervais and Leon Wild, grandson of Horace Wild, and is found in Chapter 12 of Gervais’ book: The Rumrunners: A Prohibition Scrapbook (2009). Gervais explains that Horace, his 16 year old son Noel, and two Star reporters went to a river in Amherstburg to take some photographs of bootleggers passing through. Approaching a dock by boat, the group…

Challenges are presented to everyone within their daily lives, each struggles does not compromise who a person fundamentally is. Rather, the actions taken whilst one undergoes adversity forms a person’s character. Through the use of the characters in, Forrest Gump, Robert Zemeckis shows the audience different forms of adversity, and different reactions to such. For example, Jenny Curran --the love interest of the main character-- has a life riddled with strife, and the ways she responds to…

Huckleberry Finn is a thirteen year old boy in living in St. Petersburg, Missouri with his adopted sister mothers Widow Douglas and Miss Watson. Unfortunately for Huck, he quickly discovers that his abusive father has returned to collect Huck’s treasure. Huck’s pap kidnaps Huck and quickly retrogressed to his abusive state with the help of his alcoholism. Huck fakes his own death and escapes to Jackson’s Island. Huck hides out for a few days before he discovers that one of Miss Watson’s…

because of the neglect and abuse that Pap Finn brings to him. Pap Finn has been absent for more than a year, Huck’s friends question whether Huck has any family. “ ‘... Huck Finn, he hain’t got no family’ . . . ‘ Well, hain’t he got a father?’ says Tom Sawyer. ‘Yes, he’s got a father, but you can’t never find him these days. He used…

The book the adventures by Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain focus on the character Huck Finn and his journey to morality. Thesis: The three biggest impacts on Huck’s morality are emerging into the novel by living with a drunken and abusive father, being assisted with Jim to gain his own sense of morality, and him learning right and wrong throughout the book. By that I mean he learns how to make good decisions and bad decisions depending on the situation. One impact on Huck’s morality is trying to…

When Huck's father is first brought in into the story, a sharp contrast is introduced between him and the Widow Douglas. The widow represents a civilized life filled with academics, religion, and etiquette. On the other hand, Huck’s father represents an uncivilized life filled with alcohol and abuse. Instead of choosing between these two lifestyles, Huck decides to fake his own death so that he will not be forced to comply with the widow or his father. In doing this, Huck decides to follow his…

Robert W. Straub was born in San Francisco, California on May 6, 1920. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science degrees in Business Administration at Dartmouth College. During World War II, Straub served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. In 1994, he married his wife Pat, who was influential during his governor years, and had five children. Him and his wife moved to Oregon in 1946 and Straub became a builder and developer in Eugene. Straub is not only known as a…

7-12-15 Chapter 9 Huck and Jim went exploring. Jim helped Huck hide his canoe and set traps in it. They set all their things for the raining weather that was about to come. They then built a fire and made dinner. They went into a cavern, and saw that there was a giant storm outside; the trees were flying everywhere and the wind was carrying everything with its might. many days go by and Huck notices that the river keeps getting higher and higher. It even went over the banks. Jim and Huck spend…

In the short story “The Giving Tree,” you will find many meaningful quotes, so much so that scholars have long debated the true meaning behind the story. As a reader, this book becomes open to the individual reader’s own interpretation. Someone once said, “Running away from your problems is a race you will never win.” I believe this quote is true to this story and to life in general. About halfway through the story, the boy is old and has been beat up by life and just wants to run from his…