The events of American history are very much connected to the influence of American literature and what it has become today. ... From this mixtures of outlooks came a very triumphant time in American life, encouraging writers such as Benjamin Franklin, author of his masterpiece, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY. ... Their ideas were very wide-ranging; they were educational, practical, mystical, poetical and political. ... The most well-known writer of this time was Mark Twain, complimented for one of the most famous short stories in American literature, THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN and LIFE ON TH...

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Like so Many of Twain's protagonists, both black and white, including Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Jim, Pap, The Boss, Pudd'nhead, Tom Driscoll, Chambers and Roxy, Sam Clemens was infected with a form of racism that has been with man since the beginning of time, or since the fall of man in biblical terms. ... In short, she becomes "the dupe of her own deceptions."" ... Roxana's exchange of her baby for her master's is paradoxically and unpredictably set in motion by the very system it violates, for the threat of being "sold down the river- makes her search for ways to avoid that...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate