Tom Sawyer Abroad

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…

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…

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…

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…