Tom's outlandish plan has much more "style" and he assures Huck that it will free Jim from slavery. ... Tom convinces Huck that they must free Jim by the books, not taking into consideration whether Jim is uncomfortable or suffering. ... Tom is determined to make Jim's escape follow all the rules he has learned from his adventure books. ... Huck will achieve what he feels right in his heart, to set Jim free. Tom, a refined boy of an upright culture acts as he's been taught from books and society. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In order to insure equality, to keep from offending others, firemen destroy knowledge in books. ... Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal" (89). ... Some of these books include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Bridge to Terabitha and The Catcher in the Rye. ... It also limits what an author will talk about, not giving him free reign or speech, limiting his talent and his rights given to him by the constitution. ... It is a roadblock to free reign of expression and knowledge to humanity. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Jones, I moved onto a variety of mystery books and more importantly, Magic Tree House books. ... Sometimes I enjoyed the books. Other times, I dreaded the books. ... I then realized that ignoring the books and not even giving the books a chance had to end. ... Not just the assigned books in English class, but on my own free time too. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The characters, setting, and society in the books The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are described by the way Twain had experienced. The only difference was that he wrote the books from the perspective of young boys. ... In both books, many similarities between Mark Twain's experiences and those of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are expressed. ... In Huckleberry Finn, Aunt Polly was going to sell her slave, Jim, to her sister, but since Jim did not want to be sold, he decided to run away to the free states. ... Though Mark Twain wrote both books accordin...

• Word Count: 593
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• Grade Level: High School

Tom was going to tell Huck that Jim was already free, because his owner had set him free in her will. Obviously Tom had some sort of scheme up his sleeve to explain why he failed to tell Huck that Jim was already free and then need not steal him from his captors. ... Tom came up with many of his ideas for helping Jim escape from the books that he read, and as crazy and pointless his ways may have been he always succeeded in carrying them out. ... Tom clearly showed that he had learned this misleading lesson by taking the most difficult and extended way of getting Jim out of slavery when he ...

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• Grade Level: High School

They go about setting a "rightful plan" to set Jim free. Tom wants to do everything as would be done in the books and poor Huck just wants to free Jim some time in the near future. ... After all that, Tom proceeds to tell everyone that Jim is a free man and was freed in Miss Watson's will when she passed on. ... Is what Tom Sawyer states when asked why he freed an already free slave. ... This conflict is made very apparent with Jim's struggle to be free. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He is known far and wide for his interesting books. ... Samuel is a good author that had written many books during his lifetime. ... Some of his notable quotes are "They did not know it was impossible, so they did it", "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education", "Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing", "None but the dead have free speech", "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Although Huck seems to have learned some manners and finds himself using them throughout his adventure, he rejects civilization altogether because he wanted to be free to be himself. ... "I got into my old rags, and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. " (9) When Huck "lit out " of the Widow's strict care, he went back to his carefree ways; dressing however he feels. ... "We laid off all the afternoon in the waots talk, and me reading books "(88). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Jim seems to have morals too, not wanting to do wrong, just wanting to become a free man. ... Tom gets all his ideas from far fetched books he has read never considering the real life consequences of his actions. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Huck is a strong-willed, free-spirited individual who attempts to portray himself as a bad boy, but he often finds himself doing just the opposite. ... Huck sets off to free Jim at whatever moral or physical cost to himself, a truly adult endeavor. ... Early in this novel, Huck learns to read books, a skill that later serves him well in a literal sense. ... New York: Penguin Books, 1986. ...

• Word Count: 1792
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Most of the book is about huck helping Jim run-away to the south so he can be a free man and finally own himself, during their trips Jim and huck meet up with many new friends and enemies. ... I feel huck is a great person since defying what everyone tells you take courage (when he decided to help Jim be a free man). 3. ... Jim, on the other hand, accepts a life of figurative hell in Slavery, when he is in fact free all along. 6. ... In conclusion this was by far one of the greatest books I have read in a long time and I say this because a book like this really captures my imaginatio...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

He even asks Tom if he will help him attempt to free Jim and Tom agrees. ... Because Tom grew up in a richer sheltered environment with books he is more about fun and games and doesn't even think about what could actually happen to them. ... Chapter 35 Tom talks a lot about how they are going to go about freeing Jim. ... Tom plans many things which they have to do in order to free Jim in this chapter. ... When Tom awakes he tells everyone that Jim was freed two months ago. ...

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

Such as through movies, radio talk shows, sheet music, comic books, and sports magazines. ... Jim knew that he would be taking a chance of losing his life or being caught for being with Huck, but Huck would've done the same thing for him: " Jim was not only a slave, but a human being a symbol of humanity, and in freeing Jim, Huck makes a bid to free himself of the conventionalized evil from the town."" ...

• Word Count: 1487
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

As Tom tries to adapt his life and others to the books he has read, Tom had led his friends (Tom Sawyer's Gang) towards immoral activities such as piracy and murder. ... In the events that Huck and Jim continue their journey towards free states, there are times that they steal food from the nearby towns. ... His independence does not make him different, it made him free from society's inhumane and hypocritical beliefs, making him a morally good person....

• Word Count: 1203
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• Grade Level: High School

1. I chose The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a book for my report because this title caught my attention. I have never read other books from this author, Mark Twain, and nobody recommended it to me. I only picked up this book because of the topic: adventures. Adventures histories always interest...

• Word Count: 896
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Huck longs for the freedom to be himself, to wear "old rags and [be] free and satisfied,"" (Twain 1) and relax on the raft while smoking and fishing without having to worry about becoming educated and fitting a mold formed by society (Twain 27). ... Also, both Huck and John share the "surprising combination of innocence and experience,"" (Ahern 2) which gives them integrity, skill, and the ability to break free from the form society desires. ... By means of his writing, McCarthy tries to change the philosophy of readers and impact all that read his books by exposing society's true colo...

• Word Count: 2102
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In America it's different, because everyone in America is free, which is why we have such a diverse population. ... As you probably know, Huck Finn is one of the most controversial books in American literatures history, and many people have different views on the book, like most of all, whether it should be banned from classrooms or not. ...

• Word Count: 2060
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School