"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain In the novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, Huck decides to reject civilization. ... Huck's early doubts of the civilized world all started with Pap. ... It was also civilization that awarded custody of Huck to Pap. ... Huck ran from his troubles at home down the Mississippi River. ... Huckleberry Finn was dealt a raw deal in life. ...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn fits right in with Fay Weldon's descriptions of happy endings. ... In the beginning of the story, Huck is a true blue southerner. Miss Watson's attempts to civilize Huck have failed. ... Huck is very much a child, physically and emotionally. ... Twain's Huck Finn, illustrates the ending that Fay Weldon spoke of. ...
In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Huck goes through an adventure that goes against his beliefs and morals. ... Huck breaks away from his first impressions of Jim when Huck tries to play a trick on Jim. ... Huck feels sorry for what he has done. ... Here Huck's character is tested. ... Jim is very important to Huck. ...
Essentially, Huckleberry Finn is the story of one boy's journey through growing up and maturing through his experiences on the river. Although, while making this passage into manhood, Twain shows that Huck is a divided boy in his way to free Jim. ... Even his own morality comes into play when he feels that he is doing wrong to Miss Watson when she never did anything bad to Huck. ... Huck could easily admit this to follow the "laws" but Huck sticks to his morals. ... Huck's mental struggle can be expounded to portray the struggle of the people of this time as to whether slavery is...
Furthermore, Mark Twain is one of the key components historically that make up American literature by using an outsider in Huckleberry Finn to define race in slavery. ... Huck represents the pure nature of the human race before it is cultured and brain washed. ... Secondly, not only does Huck not see helping Jim escape as wrong, he does not feel that Jim is property like all of the southerners in America. Huck treats Jim as a human being and an equal person. ... Huck Finn is not pro slavery but rather against the idea of slavery once taken out of the southern culture. ...
Novel Response #4 Breakfast of Champions By Kurt Vonnegut Vonnegut, Kurt. Breakfast of Champions. New York: Dell Publishing, 1973. pages-302. Summary- Well, to start it off, this is a great book that questions the way people are supposed to act, and what a reader's elders have taught...
