Tom Sawyer

The year was 2014 and, as usual, I was procrastinating. At this particular time I was hit with senior itis a full semester early. I had been previously assigned to create vocabulary flashcards for my chemistry class. Facebook was no longer interesting and there was nothing worth watching on television. Therefore, I needed a new form of distraction. My senior friend, Morgan, had recently told me about a book that I would eventually be assigned to read later in the year, so I figured I would pick…

Pauper was published in 1881. Catherine Dominic, a novelist and editor, voiced her opinions about Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, mainly that it contains many instances of mistaken identity, the most obvious cases are those of Prince Edward and Tom Canty. Catherine states that through the experience of lost identity, Twain depicts one's personal identity as something with a dualistic nature. For Twain, as these characters' experiences demonstrate, “identity exists as a composite of how we…

According to Oxford Dictionary of Contemporary English, satire is "the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the content of contemporary politics and other topical issues."The word satire has so many tricks, such as parody, irony; burlesque and etc .The satirist subjects are unlimited. In satirical texts, not only the content but also form is equally important. Most satires, except a few ones are socio-cultural,…

When reviewing the book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption its hard to find anything bad to say. The book was so thrilling and enjoyable that I could see a person having a hard time putting it down. Louie Zamperini is the main character of this book written by Laura Hillenbrand. The summary of the book is about the unpredictable, wild, and inspiring story of a young boy who did nothing but get in trouble, and remarkably ends up having one of the most talked…

Huck's father was a drunk and the book does not mention Huck’s mother. Huck lived with the widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, whom he didn’t have a great connection with either. He seemed to be very close with Tom and grew a connection with Jim throughout the book, but neither were family. John was pretty close with his mother at the beginning of the book but they were still quite distant and started to grow even further apart. John’s father was a smoker and…

Memories are arguably the most important aspect of a person’s life. Even with age something as simple as a smell can trigger countless memories to come flooding back. These important pictures constantly impact everyday life. This is particularly true when it comes to Mark Twain’s writing, where he uses many of his own life experiences to create important characters and settings. In his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses the main character, Huck Finn, as a representation…

Huckleberry Finn is a popular American classic written by Mark Twain. Although it is a popular classic, it is surrounded by many debates and questions over the book’s controversial issue of racism. The story is about a young boy named Huck Finn, who is running away from civilization with a runaway slave named Jim. The story covers Huck’s character development and realization of Jim’s caring personality, that leads to the two becoming good friends. Huckleberry Finn is not a racist book because of…

In the infancy of humanity, rivers were great obstacles. They presented a new problem, new tools required in order to achieve a solution, and a new method of getting to that solution. That’s what Mark Twain and Stephen Vincent Benét brought with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and By the Waters of Babylon respectively. In them the protagonists, Huck Finn and John son of John, overcome a series of obstacles in order to achieve the truth they desired . While both authors did an excellent job in…

Abraham Lincoln once said “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice”. This is also a lesson being taught in Langston Hughes’ short story “Thank You Ma’am.” The story is about a young boy named Roger who attempts to steal the pocketbook of Luella Bates Washington Jones. Instead of reporting him to the police, Mrs Jones takes him home, cares for him and gives him the money he wanted to steal: teaching the reader that punishment is not always the best solution to a…

Jedediah Leland is referred to as Charles Kane’s closest friend. Something similar can be said of Nick Carraway’s relationship to Jay Gatsby. Both Leland and Carraway portray stern moralists, both characters look at Kane and Gatsby respectively with protruding respect and admiration. They both hold high regards for said characters and are disappointed when they realize that in the end, Kane and Gatsby alike are capable of human error. They are not only important to their story’s main characters,…