Mark Twain is an author with the ability to write renounced novels, captivate an audience, and in the process stir major amounts of controversy. ... The book demonstrates a lesson, and recounts an historical event through use of satire, events and language. ... How could one scorn Twain for his efforts of showing the truth and portraying a lesson in the process? ... But Mark Twain did not write this book to teach a lesson or to create a moral for his readers. ... Twain wrote this novel to depict life in the South prior to the Civil War. ...

• Word Count: 2082
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Morality is also an issue that Huck has to deal with in the novel. ... Naturalist, like realists, depicted things true to life, however, unlike realists, naturalists had a scientific view on life. ... There are no supernatural forces that save Huck at the end of the novel, all the events that occur could really happen in real life. ... Throughout the novel, Huck's view on religion, slavery, and social acceptance come to odds with society's view of morality. ... Jim teaches Huck many lessons throughout the novel; the most important being that friendship can cross the color barrier. ...

• Word Count: 1565
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Life to him now seems nothing but a burden and his work without spirit. ... It is very difficult for him to learn by heart even a very small lesson. Tom has to "bend all his energies" to remember the lessons. ... He prefers the outdoor world and parentless life of his friend Huck Finn. Tom admires Huck and wants to be like him because Huck does not have to go to school or church and does not have to obey anyone Tom does not like attending school; he is fed up with the lesson as well as the quiet life in his small town. ...

• Word Count: 2200
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

But Twain does show how he mocks religion in his novel. ... The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a lesson, and it teaches its reader not only about freedom and religion, but mostly about race and racism. ... In a summary of Blanche's life, she was somewhat wealthy and then after the death of her husband, the loss of Belle Reve, and her leave of absence from her high school teaching job, she now has no money or way of making money, which is why she is living with her sister Stella. ... This turned Happys life around, and he ended up failing math, not going to college, and not...

• Word Count: 2060
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

To Huck Finn, this is the way that he lives his life. ... Tom does this to create excitement in his life and live out the romantic novels of adventure that he reads. ... Huck's only concern is not being with his father. ... He begins the novel with "stretching the truth", follows with lies made out of ignorance or misunderstandings, and then allows lies made for survival, which seem morally fine; but ends with malicious lies intended to harm people. ... Huck learns a valuable lesson throughout the novel, and that is that "you don't lie to someone you love" (Wasserstein). ...

• Word Count: 1838
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Unlike regionalists, naturalists had a scientific view on life while continuing to depict life truthfully. ... There is no use of supernatural forces saving Huck at the end of the novel; only life-like events occur. ... In many areas of the novel, Huck's view on religion, slavery, and social acceptance came to odds with society's view of morality. ... At the start of the novel, Huck had no aversion to slavery and he wrestled with helping Jim escape to freedom throughout the story. ... On many occasions in the novel, Jim teaches Huck many lessons, with the most important being that fr...

• Word Count: 2013
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In this novel, he played two tricks on Jim, enough to never make him do such a thing again. ... The social consequences of his actions had at one point been contemplated, rather than the lessons he learned about equality of men. He was also burdened with the thought that Ms. ... By the middle of the novel, anyone could believe that Huck Finn learned a great lesson of equality and made a complete 360 in becoming a new person. ... They both toy around with Jim as they plan his escape from the Phelps. ...

• Word Count: 1388
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The novel takes place in pre-Civil War America where slavery still exists, and it tells a story of a boy who goes on a quest to free Jim, a slave. ... In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by reversing the black-white paradigm, Huck ultimately learns of the invalidity of the ideology behind slavery and racism that has governed his beliefs about whites and blacks his entire life. ... Using this existing idea of whites, Mark Twain instead characterizes them by rather opposing traits, evidently criticizing their supposed "goodness " throughout the novel. ... The scam has surely confounded Huc...

• Word Count: 1798
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I believe that see this scam will greatly deter Huck from wanting to be a criminal later in life which is something he said he might be earlier in the novel. Duke and Dauphin's attempt at scamming the Williams family is an extremely important lesson for Huck. ... This chapter demonstrates that criminals don't ever trust anyone, not even their own partner which they should trust with their life. ... It starts out with him and Huck loading Jim's shed with rats and rattlesnakes. ... The novel Huckleberry Finn is a novel which reflects and satirizes many problems of the time....

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Kurt Vonnegut's 1973 novel Breakfast of Champions satirizes many aspects of American ideology. ... Moreover, these crises are indicative of what Vonnegut sees as the flaws in American life. ... To begin with, color is the most innocent judgment that people used to indentify everything; especially, the U.S. is filled with ethnic culture diversity. ... Vonnegut almost denounced as follows, "make people believe that life had leading characters, minor characters, significant details, that it has lessons to be learned, tests to be passed, and a beginning, a middle, and an end" (215)....

• Word Count: 2114
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate