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    connections with my life. This book has a lot of moments that reflected parts of my life that I am going to talk about in this essay. The book is about a boy named Huckleberry Finn journeys through the Mississippi River to the Phelps farm with his friend Tom Sawyer. Through his journey‚ some moments had some connection to moments of my childhood. The first connection was When he was in St. Petersburg and was playing with his friends. I had childhood memories with my friends and family. I remember playing

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    " ’Humor‚’ Mark Twain once wrote while in a different mode‚ ’is only a fragrance‚ a decoration. If it is really to succeed in survival‚ it must surreptitiously teach and preach.’ "(qtd. Howells 211). Mark Twain exposes the evil in society by satirizing the institutions of religion‚ education and slavery. One of Twains many techniques in writing involve his way of making a point without one knowing whether or not he is kidding. He satirizes religion throughout the novel using Huck who does not see

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    friendship. There are many different friendships in the book including Huck and Tom Sayer’s relationship‚ the bond between Huck and Jim‚ and even some unlikely friends. One of Huck Finn’s most notable friends is none other than Tom Sawyer. Tom and Huck have been friends for as long as they can remember. Tom makes up a gang where only their closest friends can join in. They were all very loyal to each other‚ they made a pact where Tom says that “Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath‚ and write

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    Both books share the same title and the only difference is a change in names. The sequel is clearly more narrowed in on Huckleberry rather than Tom Sawyer‚ although Tom is present in the book. Titles show who the writer is going to make the protagonist and all other characters will be included based on their importance to the main character. The author want to convey how each adventure is like a trial for

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    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer have many points in the story which were based on what happened to him as a kid. But to keep the story interesting to his readers‚ he also made some differences that kept the story alive. He was very connected to children and how they thought because he was also a kid a heart. Mark’s book‚ The Prince and The Pauper was a book made for kids more than adults like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were. Mark Twain was a major inspiration that has changed

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    Uncle Tom's Cabin

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    Rarely does a one work of literature change a society or start it down the road to cataclysmic controversy.  One such work is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s‚ Uncle Tom’s Cabin.  Considered by many‚ one the most influential American works of fiction ever published.  Uncle Tom’s Cabin contracts many different attitudes that Southerners as well as Northerners shared towards slavery. It shows the evils and cruelties of slavery and the cruelty‚ in particular how masters treat their slaves and how families are

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    known from Tom’s story‚ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -Huck and Tom found 6000 dollars‚ which is a lot of money in this era -Miss Watson is very nice to have taken Huck in -There is a lot of racism in the book because of the time period it takes place in -It seems like Tom Sawyer is Huck’s role model Chapter 2: -Takes place in a time of slavery -Jim keeps the same five cents on a string around his neck as the five cents Tom left for the candles -Tom shows that he is the leader type when he

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    Father Figure to Huck Finn

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    Indah Abudiman Mr. Melton American Literature 16 April 2013 A Father Figure for Huck A father is the person who always be there when the child need the most. He takes care of us‚ protects‚ cares‚ and teaches us about many things in this life. In the Huckleberry Finn‚ Mark Twain tells the reader about the white boy’s life without the actual figure father in his life. Huck grew without loves from his parents. His mom died when he was really young and he has the father who cannot be the good example

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    current events that happened throughout history. Some of his famous works included The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Throughout both of these books we see struggling men trying to decide what’s best for themselves morally or consciously. Huck was an important character in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚ the first book to this sequel. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ends with the two characters‚ Tom and Huck finding a stash of gold that a couple of robbers hid in a cave. In Huckleberry Finn we

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    was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in the town of Florida‚ Missouri‚ in 1835. When he was four years old‚ his family moved to Hannibal‚ a town on the Mississippi River much like the towns depicted in his two most famous novels‚ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Clemens spent his young life in a fairly affluent family that owned a number of household slaves. The death of Clemens’s father in 1847‚ however‚ left the family in hardship. Clemens left school

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