The forthcoming of American literature proposes two distinct Realistic.
novels portraying characters which are tested with a plethora of adventures. In.
this essay, two great American novels are compared: The Adventures of Huck Finn.
by Mark Twain and The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger. The Adventures of.
Huck Finn is a novel based on the adventures of a boy named Huck Finn, who along.
with a slave, Jim, make their way along the Mississippi River during the.
Nineteenth Century. The Catcher In The Rye is a novel about a young man called.
Holden Caulfield, who travels from Pencey Prep to New York City struggling with.
his own neurotic problems. These two novels can be compared using the.
Cosmogonic Cycle with both literal and symbolic interpretations.
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The Cosmogonic Cycle is a name for a universal and archetypal situation.
There are six parts that make up the cycle: the call to adventure, the.
threshold crossing, the road of trials, the supreme test, a flight or a flee,.
and finally a return. There are more parts they do not necessarily fall into.
the same order, examples of these are symbolic death and motifs. The Cosmogonic.
Cycle is an interesting way to interpret literature because is Universal or.
correlates with any time period and any situation.
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The Call to Adventure is the first of the Cosmogonic Cycle. It is the.
actual "call to adventure" that one receives to begin the cycle. There are many.
ways that this is found in literature including going by desire, by chance, by.
abduction, and by being lured by an outside force. In The Adventures of Huck.
Finn, Huck is forced with the dilemma of whether to stay with his father and.
continue to be abused or to leave. Huck goes because he desires to begin his.
journey. In The Catcher In The Rye, Holden mentally is torn between experience.
and innocence, it would seem to him that an outside force is luring him to do.
something but in actuality he is beginning his journey because of his desire.
However, this journey of courage, turned into Huck's maturation. ... In addition, although Huck frequently lied, he lied for a cause. ... Also, another character that also shows moral maturation is Holden Caulfield in J.D. ... All through Holden's journey home, he encounter's people that enhance his maturity level. Holden is also a pathological liar, but does learn from his experiences. ...
" Much of America was lively, and according to Huck's Raft, "the postwar era was a period of rapidly rising real incomes, weekly earning of factory workers increased 50 percent, and millions of Americans moved from urban apartments to suburban ranch-style homes" (Mintz 275). ... Holden's problems arise from his lack of maturity. ... In contrast, in Huck's Raft it talks about kids beginning "toilet training before they were nine months old" (Mintz 281). ... Holden's failures lead him to understand himself. ... But high school wasn't for Holden. ...
In Twain's novel, Huck Finn, there are numerous on-shore incidents, which provide insight into Huck's character, as well as contribute to the plot as a whole. ... A good example of this attitude occurs when Huck meets Jim on the island. ... Not even Huck has one of those. ... Huck soon realizes that the men are not only cons to the people they trick, but to their "companions," Huck and Jim, as well. ... Huck seems to be an earlier version of Salinger's Holden Caulfield, always trying his hardest to stick to what he believes is right, never conforming to society's standards,...
Much of America was lively, and according to Huck's Raft "the postwar era was a period of rapidly rising real incomes, weekly earning of factory workers increased 50 percent, and millions of Americans moved from urban apartments to suburban ranch-style homes"(Mintz 275). ... Holden's problems arise from his lack of maturity. ... Indeed, this episode makes light of Holden's inconsistency. ... In contrast, in Huck' Raft it talks about kids beginning "toilet training before they were nine months old" (Mintz 281). ... Holden's failures lead him to under...
Individual vs. ... After Huck had already ran away from home and started down the Mississippi River with Jim, Twain began to show us how Huck was questioning himself for being with a Negro because Huck knew what society would think. ... After weakening, Huck says, "All right then, I"ll go to hell!" ... Huck decides that the feud is pointless and learns from their stupidity. Toward the end of the book, we meet Tom Sawyer one of Huck's good friends. ...
Huck Finn's Conflict: Laws of Society vs. ... To Huck, society takes many forms; it is the shore, St. ... Jim's arrival comforts Huck which is very important to understanding the struggles Huck goes through later with "giving Jim up". ... The pivotal point in Huck and Jim's relationship unfolds as Huck struggles over whether or not to write a letter to Ms. ... He remembers the nights Jim guided the raft down the river as Huck slept and how upset he was at the thought of Huck being lost in the fog. ...
The three themes of the book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that stood out to me the most to me in the second half of the book were slavery, Blacks vs. whites, and fraud. ... I thought that Huck is the only white person in the book that doesnt hate black people. ... Second I will address the conflict of blacks vs. whites. ... Huck finds out that blacks, well, Jim possesses feelings of love just the same as the next white man (example: Huck admits about Jim "I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks do theirn."). Even further Huck excepts Jim to be white (Huck, refe...
All is well until Huck's drunken father Pap reappears and demands Huck's money. ... The main type of conflicts in this story is man vs. man and man vs. society. The man vs. man conflict is showed with Pap and his son Huck, Huck is constantly beat and is not taken care of at all, he does not know manners and is in trouble until he gets help. Man vs. society is shown with Jim vs. ... Tom is everything that Huck is not. ...
The Essence of an Individual An important theme in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is that of the individual vs. society. Huck is portrayed as an outcast in his village. ... Huck's lowlife dad walks into town apparently to see Huck. ... The judge rules that Huck belongs to his "pap" even though he is abusive toward Huck. Huck's surrogate mother, the Widow Douglas and Judge Thatcher, the banker that helps Huck protect his money, are the only two townsfolk that seem to care what happens to Huck...
