Huckleberry Finn often returns to his unresolved moral dilemma about slavery, lifestyles, and honesty throughout his adventures including before he reaches the river, while he is on the river, and once he leaves the river due to the constant introduction of seemingly immoral situations into the plot. ... This dilemma launches Huck into a journey through many other dilemmas he is forced to deal with when he decides to try and find his own lifestyle down river. ... Life with Pap, as Huck referred to him, is two-sided in every way. ... Huck, who has been going along with their scheme, is now fac...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They mindlessly kill the Shepherdsons, all because of some old feud they have between each other. ... Huck asks Buck what a feud is, and this was bucks reply "'Well, says Buck, 'a feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother kills HIM; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the COUSINS chip in-and by and by everybody's killed off, and there ain't no more feud. ... Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. ... After Buck dies, Huck is eager to return to th...

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• Grade Level: High School

Realism ,however, is a broad movement in literary history, it consists of two other parts, regionalism and naturalism. ... Petersberg, Missouri, a town on the Mississippi River this makes the novel realistic because the setting is natural, that is to say it is an actual town, not a fictional spot made up just for the story. ... Later in the novel, while on Jackson Island, Huck gets a piece of bread that was floating on the river and begins reconsider religion and because he thinks that someone probably prayed for the bread to get to him, so maybe there was a God. ... Huck learns that Jim has...

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"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is to pause and reflect". ... It describes how individuals in a group can be influenced by others to act a certain way. ... I heard about it away down the river, too. ... They commit fraud several times along the river, scamming money from innocent people. ... Twain also displays another type of greed in the novel- one that involves having influence over others rather than gaining money. ...

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Realism, however, consists of two other components: regionalism and naturalism. ... Naturalism was the other movement that evolved from realism. ... Jim, on the other hand, speaks using the typical slang of a slave, which is much less formal. ... Huck also found out that Jim had an intelligent and a compassionate side, which the white society had said couldn't be possible. ... Huck, on the other hand, grew and matured to a certain extent throughout the novel as he learned more about society. ...

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Huck and Jim's journey down the Mississippi River allows the reader to examine the attitudes, actions and beliefs of a southern community during the mid to late nineteenth century. ... Twain's underlying message for humanity is to be brave enough to break from what others assume is correct and just, and make decisions for yourselves and the ability to stand on your own and do something about it. ... Jim allows the readers to see the human side of slaves and acknowledge the love, friendship, and goodness that they are capable of when given the chance. ... Twain uses Jim as a ...

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Prejudice can be observed throughout the novel by the way the other characters treat Huck. ... In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, there's a clear example of the classes we put each other into is when Huck, the main character, and Jim were heading south. Jim and Huck are sitting on the banks of the Mississippi River, and Jim says "I owns myself en I's wuth eight hund"d dollars". ... As the Joad family encounters various families in the same situation, Steinbeck shows that some people are selfish while others care about helping their world. The people with money trusted the dregs o...

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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. ... The first is the family feud portion of the novel, as two families rage war against one another, for reasons that they don't even know, killing all the males from the Grangerford side, depicting the stupidity and brutality of life in the South. ... This family, known as the Grangerfords, is one of two wealthy families in the town, engaged with a feud with the ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Tom wants to be deemed acceptable, yet start a gang on the side. ... ""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 ...

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Through his descriptive imagery and use of Spanish, McCarthy in All the Pretty Horses efficiently unveils the dark side of society and of men in conflict to the innocence and freedom only found in nature. ... It is apparent that these two novels are very different, one being a story of a cowboy longing for a stable lifestyle with his passion, horses, and the other a novel satirizing a slave owning society, however looking deeper they have many similarities. ... For Huck the raft and the river are much more than material things, they are symbols of his freedom (Brooks 3721). ... And other...

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Watson thinks that slaves are the same people who are just being exploited by other people. ... Watson] meant - I must help other people, and do everything I could for other people, and look out for them all the time, and never think about myself. " (pg. 8). ... Watson was the one that told him to help out others and never think about others, but in reality never actually helped Jim while she was alive (she freed Jim only in her will), felt or even thought about feeling sympathetic for him. ... Jim could not risk his only true friend who helped him get lost and possibly drown somewhere in the...

• Word Count: 2477
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School