In the article "Two Views of a River ", Mark Twain tries to spread the message that as someone gains knowledge or matured in something, they also lose innocence and joy. ... A relationship between two people can have many different meaning for example the children and parents or two lovers which could change his or her attitude by understanding truly relation between them. ... Fantasy always excites children but they become unexcited when they come to know the reality behind those fantasy. The first example is the Christmas which is usually children's favorite holiday because they think t...

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Twain was one of six children. ... When Twain was four yearsold, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a small town on thewest bank of the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River and thetowns along it were used as the setting in The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn. ... Goshen was also atown located a few miles down the river from Twain^s home. ... Whiletraveling down the Mississippi River on the raft, Jim, the"runaway nigger", was free (Twain 76). ...

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The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 did not fundamentally solve the majority of Northerners deeply, they refused to be responsible for catching escaped slaves, and even helped them to escape or provided shelter for them, By that time The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published, Mark Twain showed his opinion about slavery in children's eyes. ... Huck at first believes that the blacks are much lower than whites and regards them as inferior animals, the conversation between him and Aunt Sally after the explosion in the river is a good example. ... At first, he can not see J...

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It's a story of a young outcast named Huck, seeking adventure, and a runaway slave named Jim, seeking freedom, both on a raft, floating down the Mississippi river. ... But when Huck and Jim's raft gets hit by a steam boat and separated at the place where the river forks, splitting off into the Ohio river, the story goes a different direction. Mark Twain himself was a river boat captain on the Mississippi river, but never traveled past that fork in the Mississippi, which could possibly be the reason the book took it's fateful turn. ... One theme in the novel is that the...

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Throughout their trip down the river, Jim persistently takes care of Huck. ... The only reason he ran was because he overheard her saying that he was going to be sold down the river. Being sold down the river meant being sold into an even graver situation for a slave. ... In the Deep South, or down the river? ... He had abandoned his wife and children and he was scared. ...

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Louis and became a river boat apprentice. ... In 1861, when river trade started to slow, twain returned to the newspaper business. ... Rachel's husband was bought first and then her children. ... He has no wife, no children, and no family to support him. ... Their campsite was really close to the river, and one night, the river started rising. ...

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Slaves are seen in this novel as animalistic creatures ("He was a fairly human man towards slaves and other animals - (14), dependent on the good will of their "master-, and always in fear of being "sold down the river-. - Being "sold down the river- meant having to work under the worst circumstances imagined by a slave further South, down the river Mississippi. - At first we are introduced to the slave Roxana whom we get to know in the form of an all-black voice teasing another black voice, namely the slave Jasper. ...

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Drunks shouldn't be forgiven and allowed to take care of children. ... It wasn't until Huck had a chance to listen to Jim's struggle of missing his wife and children that he understood black people also feel loss and loneliness. ... The lies flowed from his mouth like the Mississippi River they were following towards freedom. ...

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A Look on American Classics As Huck Finn travels down the Mississippi River, he stumbles upon some people that are new to him. ... Arthur Radley saved the children but "I walked him home like a gentleman" (270) and the outer shell of a human's appearance is almost always deceiving, you must sincerely know the person's true intentions. ... Ewell can, "spend his relief check on green whiskey, [while] his children have a way of crying of hunger pains." (31) How a man can spend money starving his children is beyond me. ... Cunningham, "pay with potatoes." (18) The whole c...

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While traveling down the Mississippi River, Huck believes he is committing a sin by going against society and protecting Jim. ... This shows that Tom and the others are under such an influence from society that they would take a band of children and try to turn it into a gang of robbers and murderers. ...

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The entire point of the gang is to ransom people and kill all but women and children (Twain 21). ... In Huck's case, life on the river forced him to lie for survival. ... His first identity change is to Sarah Mary Williams were Huck attempts to discover information about life on the Mississippi River, particularly in regards to his own death and Jim's escape. ...

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The children join in the greeting. ... For example, after Debbie has been located among the Comanche by Ethan and Marty, a war party of Comanches attack from the ridge and from alongside the river bank where the two have been laying in wait to reach her. ...

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Huck tells the reader this when he realizes that Jim misses his own family and children, "I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their"n" (150). ... "I come to being lost and going to hell and got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the time But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him how good he always was I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he's got now I [will] steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that...

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As Huck and Jim float down the river in their journey for freedom, each of their adventures shows us a little more about how Mark Twain felt about the South, and it's views on slavery, brotherhood, and society as a whole. ... At first glance, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is merely a book for young boys, telling the tale of a child in the period before the Civil War, and his great adventures, but when one takes a look deeper into the words of Mark Twain, we can see that this book was written not for children, but for adults, as Twain shows his true dislike for Southern Society. ...

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""I saw a wild pig I shot this fellow and took him into camp I fetched the pig in and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with an axe, and laid him down on the ground to bleed Well, next I took an old sack and put a lot of big rocks in it I started it from the pig and dragged it toward the door and through the woods down to the river and dumpt it in, and down it sunk Last I pulled out some of my hair, and bloodied the axe and stuck it on the backside." (37) Here makes an independent decision that he does not belong in their world. ... Instead of thinking about thei...

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He [Jim] was thinking about his wife and his children, away up yonder, and he was low and homesick; because he hadn't ever been away from home before in his life; and I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their"n. ... Jim could not risk his only true friend who helped him get lost and possibly drown somewhere in the river. ... The Duke and the King also proved to be bad characters because they tried to take away many from children who just experienced deaths of close related people. ...

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