In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Mississippi represents a path to freedom for Huck. The river makes him free because it is a world apart from society, a source for adventure, and gives Huck a place to escape. ... While on the river, Huck feels secure and as if he has a home on the Mississippi. He has a tendency to get in trouble when he travels to shore and needs a place to flee and feel secure. ... In this statement Huck is showing that after this experience, he feels back at home and protected, residing on the raft. ...

• Word Count: 608
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Twain made Huckleberry Finn represent himfictionally in this book. ... ^Now, we'll start this band of robbers and call it..." wasone of the things Huck said (Twain 9). ... Twain'sfather had died when he was about Huck's age in the book. ... Goshen was also atown located a few miles down the river from Twain^s home. Thesetwo runaways, a beaten boy and a slave built a place to escape toon their raft. ...

• Word Count: 1392
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The main character is called by Huckleberry Finn, or just Huck Finn. ... This book is about the adventures of a young boy called by Huck Finn. ... But, before he does it, his father arrived in the town and gets him to his place. ... This slave that was called by Jim had run away from his owner. ... Huck did solid friendship with these men, and found a new home to live in. ...

• Word Count: 896
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

After that he pulls a boy's hair in the next bench and look at his book as if there is nothing happening. ... Tom, however, not only takes part in some enterprises called "audacious mischief" by his aunt but also spends much time reading book and giving romantic dreams. ... This is eve dented through his words such as "That isn't the way it is in the book" or "The book says", "You can see that in any book", "It is so in all the books". ... As Mark Twain says in the preface to "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", many events and adventures really take place and one or two are experiences o...

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

Throughout the whole book Huck is not alone and has someone for him to look to. ... Page 37 describes pap in a semi-dangerous drunken state," He chased me round and round the place with a clasp knife, calling me the Angel of Death, and saying he would kill me, and then I couldn't come for him no more." Throughout the beginning of the book Huck's pap pops in and out of his life, constantly making trouble and endangering Huck. ... Huck enjoys Jim's company and finds he feels safer with Jim than he ever did with Pap. " and would always call me honey, and pet me, and do everything ...

• Word Count: 590
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

One day, Tom tried to stay home from school and fake that he was sick. ... Becky starts to like Tom and they are "engaged," as Tom calls it. ... Tom decides that he will come back to this place later with Huck. ... I enjoyed this book very much. ... There were not any problems with this book. ...

• Word Count: 1222
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Ament paid Samuel with clothes and a place to live. ... He left the mining town of Carson City, California and headed for San Francisco, where he got a job writing for the San Francisco Call. ... Twain's first book Roughing It is also published during this year. ... Another difference between the two characters is their home life and how they were brought up. ... The following year on April 21, 1910 Samuel Langhorne Clemens passes away at his home at Stormfield in Bermuda. ...

• Word Count: 1590
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

She is a good Christian who " was going to live so as to go to the good place."... She states that she has respect for all life and calls herself a woman of God and even instructs Huck to look for "spiritual gifts", but in turn she cannot even give her slaves the gift of freedom. ... So in turn they treat Jim accordingly when they have him at their home. ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a book filled with religious satire from start to finish. ...

• Word Count: 710
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

She is a good Christian who " was going to live so as to go to the good place." but in turn owns many slaves. She states that she has respect for all life and calls herself a woman of God and even instructs Huck to look for "spiritual gifts", but in turn she cannot even give her slaves the gift of freedom. ... So in turn they treat Jim accordingly when they have him at their home. ... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a book filled with religious satire from start to finish. ...

• Word Count: 688
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

His first popular book was "Innocents Abroad- (1869), followed by "Tom Sawyer- and "Huckleberry Finn- (1876). ... However, the setting of the novel was in 1830, a period called "Ante Bellum-, which was the time before Civil War and the time of slavery. ... Pudd'nhead Wilson, originally called David Wilson, is a young lawyer who comes into the small town named Dawson's Landing. ... Her son, now called "Tom-, grows up as a white man and Tom, now called "Chambers- grows up as a slave. ... Twain had a special relationship to one of the slaves called Uncle Daniel. ...

• Word Count: 3258
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The land of the free (except for slaves) and the home of the brave (and extremely violent and repressive) inculcated racial myths within Clemens during his antebellum childhood on the Mississippi that were slowly fractured, but never completely expunged, as he matured intellectually. ... As blacks began to discover their humanity, it was necessary to overstate their dehumanization in order to get them back in their place as expeditiously as possible. ...

• Word Count: 3141
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate