Tom Regan

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…

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…

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by the American writer Mark Twain. Although it was published in 1885, the novel is set in the southern part of Missouri during the 1840s, back when 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…

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…

The laugh out loud comedy that explodes with outrageous wit and slapstick humor from the Coen Brothers. Underneath Professor (Hanks) silver tongued southern gentleman person is a devious criminal who has assembled a motley gang of thieves to commit the heist of the century by tunneling through his church going landlady’s root cellar to casino’s vault of riches. But these cons are far from pros. As their scheme begins blowing up in their faces, their landlady smells a rat. And when she threatens…

But the society’s role should be viewed with hostility. In spite of his experience he fails to decide to take a stand because of the constant instructions from the society. Comparatively Tom Sawyer who is the friend and guide of Huckleberry Finn shows remarkable intelligence and compassion. He understands life better than Huck. Jim seems to be superstitious and irrational to the point of ridiculousness, but a cautious analysis of the time…

COMPLICATED, yet eloquent. Breath-taking, yet unique. This is how I describe Super- Frog Saves Tokyo, a peculiar story which was written by Murakami Haruki and was translated by Jay Rubin. In connection with this, this story of Murakami proves his different and astonishing style of writing fiction stories. Moreover, this fiction story of him proves his expertise in depicting imaginary people in imaginary situation. On the other hand, there are hardworking people who are not acknowledged. There…