Realism in Regionalism A goal often tried by many authors is to achieve realism in regionalism. This means that an author will try to create an accurate display of a certain place's culture, customs, traditions, etc. ... Besides a purpose of pleasurable reading, these works can be considered educational books in the way they display certain environments in history. ... In both The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambros Bierce, the authors use accurate portrayals of the environment to help the reader bet...

• Word Count: 396
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• Grade Level: High School

Mark Twain was one of the founders of great American Literature, and the use of satire in his novels made Twain one of the greatest authors of all time. ... He shows his humorous take on the religious parties of the south through his writing. ... The whole purpose of going to church is to learn about god, or a certain religious figure. ... Twain was one of the most creative men of his time, and it shows through his writing how ingenious his ideas were for the time in which he was living....

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• Grade Level: High School

Being raised Roman Catholic (Priola 1), the author Cormac McCarthy adopted the spoon fed philosophy of his parents, later coming to his own conclusions, expressed in his novels. ... His unique writing style of vivid imagery and integrating Spanish gives McCarthy a few constant and signature traits. ... (McCarthy 48) "The writing is as good as the shooting- (Donoghue 11) because of his great technique. ... The author shows John's reaction to the sight of Alejandra, John "had meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat- (McCarthy 108). Even w...

• Word Count: 2102
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Mark Twain is an author with the ability to write renounced novels, captivate an audience, and in the process stir major amounts of controversy. ... Through exploring the language, the reasons behind the dialect, and Mark Twain himself, one can explore the facts and purpose that the censorships are unnecessary, and the book needs not to be banned but to be taught and explored correctly. ... 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. ... "...

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• Grade Level: High School

During the realistic movement authors wrote novels depicting the world as it really was. One such author was Mark Twain. ... Realism is an attempt of an author to represent things as they really are. ... In regionalist pieces, the author writes in a certain dialect, that of the region. ... He goes on to say that they failed to bring a "true man", someone to follow who is brave and has a purpose. ...

• Word Count: 1565
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• Grade Level: High School

This is the idea that Mark Twain, famous American author, expresses in his novel through the voice of a young boy named Huckleberry Finn. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses his satirical style of writing to ridicule many aspects of American society. ... Twain uses his humorous style of writing and satirizes these three traits of American society throughout the novel. ... Shipped to the United States of America solely for the purpose to serve as slaves, the blacks weren't very highly looked upon. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Dear Fellow Yazoo Country School board Members, I am writing this letter to you today to place my vote on the topic of should The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn be taught in our eleventh grade English classes. ... In Twains writing there are important life lessons, as well as heavy subjects but also valuable facts and information for a students maturing minds. ... This is the hardest year before they graduate and it is for a purpose. ... We should not prohibit kids from having the privilege of learning from a book that was written by one of America's greatest authors. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

" For clarity purposes, the Duke and Dauphin were not a Duke or a Dauphin. ... It goes to show just what exactly the author of the book was trying to get at. ... Throughout Mark Twain's novel a plain and striking point of view is expressed by the author. ... The main idea of Mark Twain's writing is varied, and depends on who is reading it. ...

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Like many authors of his day, Mark Twain, who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, wrote about the world as it was. This era of writing was also referred to as the realistic movement. ... When using realism, an author attempts to represent things as they are. ... When using regionalism, an author expresses things, as they would be in certain regions, such as the way a character acts or speaks in a specific geographic environment. ... He continues, saying they failed to bring a "true man," a leader who is brave and has purpose. ...

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Twain eventually realized that writing was his passion and began publishing his own work in 1865 (Reuben, Paul). ... I believe the purpose of this story was that money doesn't bring people happiness and that no matter how hard times can get there can always be light at the end of the road when your least expecting it. ... Overall, Mark Twain is one of the best authors even known. ...

• Word Count: 1889
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After brief service in the Civil War he started writing as a journalist and later as an author. ... Her complexion was very fair, with the rosy glow of vigorous health in the cheeks, her face was full of character and expression, her eyes were brown and liquid, and she had a heavy suit of fine soft hair which was also brown To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteenth parts and made her a negro. ...

• Word Count: 3258
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School