It gives the imagination a wild and amusing ride, but it doesn't allow you to relate the plot to everyday life. ... House to his adventurous holdover with Tom Sawyer and Jim at Aunt Sally's place - Twain takes you on an emotional roller coaster ride that throughout gives a number of opportunities to question the amount of realism involved. ... In the book, Twain depicts a realistic attitude toward slavery through Jim, the runaway slave, while simultaneously giving the reader a wild ride of the moral growth of the orphaned boy Huck. ... He knows nothing more than to answer and cater t...

• Word Count: 2137
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

His love has been a joyous light That o'er her pathway smiled, A fountain gushing ever new, Amid life's desert wild. ... I could not rest, if around my grave I heard the steps of a trembling slave; His shadow above my silent tomb Would make it a place of fearful gloom I could not sleep, if I heard the tread Of a coffle-gang to the shambles led, And the mother's shriek of wild despair Rise, like a curse, on the trembling air. ... I would sleep, dear friends, where bloated Might Can rob no man of his dearest right; My rest shall be calm in any grave Where none c...

• Word Count: 2134
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It is a wild and unpleasant story of a man's capacity for evil and the peculiar manifestation of it. ... Set in the palaces and boardrooms of Europe and in the villages of central Africa, it tells the story of the tragedy that took place during Leopold's so called rule, a tragedy that is so familiar to African-Americans, being told of our African brothers residing in the homeland. ... In the introduction I stated that Morel was the character that I considered to be the hero of this story, now the main question behind that would be, why? ... I won't even ask this next question, b...

• Word Count: 2087
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate