In two of early America's greatest works, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, readers are exposed to the vision of two great authors of the 18th and 19th centuries and while it is possible for one to simply read and enjoy the plot of these stories, it is impossible to overlook the similarities in their greater thematic issues. ... All of the main characters are radicals of sort whose desires to rebel and remain primitive have transformed into a righteous heroism. ... Of all the thematic issues expressed in The Advent...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ... (Brodwin, pp. 336-337) The argument between nature and nurture becomes academic in a world where a character like Roxy can justify her sins based on the sins of those who have sinned against her. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate