Analysis The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was written by Samuel Clemens, or better known as Mark Twain. ... Many of his writings have reached the pinnacles of American and world literature, including the timeless Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. ... The book tells the story of one summer of Tom's and all of his escapades and adventures he undergoes with the infamous friend Huck Finn. In the book, Twain uses such forms of figurative language as metaphors, similes, onomat...

• Word Count: 1037
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Of course, most critics will agree, his most controversial novel would unanimously be Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; a story about a run away boy and his run away slave and their journey down the Mississippi River to freedom. ... The racial, derogative, and offensive slurs and slang dialog are incorporated in the story of Huckleberry Finn for the pure purpose of effect and to also recreate the historical events accurately. ... Twain incorporates the use of this old dialect and language to correctly describe each character and distinguish their "true stature" and realism to the story, since ...

• Word Count: 2082
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• Grade Level: High School

Silas Phelp's comes out of the house and asks Huckleberry if he is Tom. ... In order to update Tom on the situation, Huckleberry goes down to the river when he hears a steamboat so he can tell Tom what has happened. ... Here is yet more examples of how Jim is treated as a lesser individual because of his ethnicity and Tom's extreme childness and lack of realism in his life. ... In the end Huck and Tom decide they would like to go on an adventure to the Indian Territory. The novel Huckleberry Finn is a novel which reflects and satirizes many problems of the time. ...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School