The short story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" is a superb example of local color fiction because it has the following characteristics: a) it is written for popular fiction, b) it contains accurate dialect, c) it shows realistic representations of local customs, dress, mannerisms, and habits of thought, d) it contains sentimentality, e) it contains humor, f) it contains the subject of life, friendship, and love, g) it came from personal experience of the author, and h) it contains eccentric characters. ... Also throughout the whole story John Oakhurst keeps true to the thought processes of a pr...

• Word Count: 1453
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

By telling the story of Huck Finn's adventures after Huck had run away from home, Twain creates a true-to-life scenario. ... He continues, saying they failed to bring a "true man," a leader who is brave and has purpose. ... On many occasions in the novel, Jim teaches Huck many lessons, with the most important being that friendship can cross the color barrier. ...

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

When I was fifty yards off, Jim says: 'Dah you goes, de ole true Huck; de on'y white genlman dat ever kep' his promise to ole Jim.' ... Here as Huck is going through with his decision to turn in Jim, Jim reminds Huck of their friendship and his trust in Huck. ... But as he writes the letter, his thoughts turn to the friendship he has with Jim. ...

• Word Count: 2222
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Huck struggles with the concept of right and wrong through out the story because of his friendship with Jim and what he learns on the river. ... The feud portion of the story is originally included as a satire on "family honor" and shows the absurdity of such feuds, but it quickly becomes very serious for Huck and the true meaning is understood in the final scene. ... Society's rules have no meaning for Huck because he has never been a true member of it. ...

• Word Count: 1375
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Considered the master realist, Twain was an expert at creating a realistic novel in which true to life characters would have real problems concerning issues of the time period. ... Naturalist, like realists, depicted things true to life, however, unlike realists, naturalists had a scientific view on life. ... He goes on to say that they failed to bring a "true man", someone to follow who is brave and has a purpose. ... 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

Slang and condescending words are used in almost every line and every page to bring to the reader the true lifestyles of the past. ... Twain incorporates the use of this old dialect and language to correctly describe each character and distinguish their "true stature" and realism to the story, since all of Twains characters, including Huck and Jim, are based upon real life people and their encounters. Twain took the true people he based his characters on and embellished on their dialect so that every character sounds and speaks a bit differently. ... They begin to create a friendship strong...

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

Twain applies satire to express his true philosophy on slavery, that it should not have existed, and the rules of society, and employs various characters found in the novel, such as Huck, Jim and the Grangerfords, to support his theory. ... Huck and Jim's friendship exceeds petty differences in color and disobeys a society's teaching that is both thick-witted and shallow. ...

• Word Count: 1350
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

" (Knowles 20-21) If Gene were a true friend, he would not have wanted for his pal to get in trouble nor be dissatisfied when Phineas did not. ... Finny's refusal to acknowledge WWII is an allegory to his refusal to see the war inside Gene, for even though both the war and Gene's antagonism were both evidently real, Phineas did not want to jeopardize the friendship he most cherishes. Phineas ' loyalty causes Gene to believe that Phineas had no inner demon to face, no immoral thoughts to quash, and therefore as Gene said,"too good to be true....

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The escape allows Huck to discover his true self, without the harmful effects of tradition and conformity, qualities, which go hand-in-hand with established society. ... Much of this so-called "self" discovery is aided in part by Huck's friendship with Jim. ... In retrospect, he realizes that no one was kinder to him than Jim, someone who is more representative of true humanity, although society does not even deem him a man, than Huck's best friend, Tom, whose mind is still clouded with prejudice. ...

• Word Count: 1593
• Approx Pages: 6

Although Huck knows he should just rescue Jim the simple way, he is still not strong enough morally to favor Jim's well being over Tom's friendship and adventures. ... Huck shows his true wisdom in the final sentence of the story when he acknowledges that his morals are not strong enough to go against society yet. ...

• Word Count: 1735
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School