...The Credibility of Characters in Twain’s Huckleberry Finn The credibility of a novel is defined as the quality of it being believable or trustworthy. This simply means that the novel provides a story which can essentially take place in the real world. If this were to be the case in a novel, then the many aspects of the story would have to be credible. The novel would have to take place in a realistic setting, for example. Also the events that take place in the novel would have to reflect events which can occur in reality. Other aspects that also need to be credible in a novel are the characters. In such a novel the readers need to be able to relate to the characters. An author that does this successfully with the characters is Mark Twain. In one of his more famous novels, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain gives credibility to the characters by presenting them with major flaws, which helps readers relate to these characters. These characters include Tom, Huck, and Jim. Tom Sawyer has flaws which come to surface early in the novel. “Because it ain’t in the books so—that’s why. Now Ben Rogers, do you want to do things regular, or don’t you?—that’s the idea. Don’t you reckon that the people that made the books knows what’s the correct thing to do?...No, sir, we’ll just go on and ransom them in a regular way” (p. 12). Twain presents Tom as a character who portrays romantic ideals. When he says he wants to go by the book, he reveals that he is taking many of his ideas from...
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...Background/history: Ms. Rissa Sawyer is a 64 year old woman who is currently attending Brikshire Community College with aspirations of receiving a degree in Human Services. Rissa suffers from severe arthritis in her wrist, shoulders and hands. She suffers with carpal tunnel syndrome in her right hand and she had surgery to place a pin in the joint of her thumb for better support. Functional Capacities: Rissa, is ambulate across all surfaces without the utilization of an assistive device. Due to the severe carpal tunnel and arthritis in her upper extremities at times she experiences pain. Rissa is much smaller and petite compared to the average woman. She has limited dexterity in her right hand and is not able to close her hand fully. She experiences difficulty with organization and finds it hard to be on time for appointments. Functional Limitations and Potential Assistive/Rehabilitation Technology Solutions: Rissa does not own a laptop, she does have a cell phone a Samsung Galaxy S5 with 16 GB of RAM. She has access to a printer where she is currently living....
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...Mark Twain’s first successful piece of work was a book about a young boy named Tom Sawyer. Tom and his best friend, Huckleberry Finn, went around, getting in trouble and going on exciting adventures. It was a popular children's book. So, when Mark Twain came out with his next book; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a story of Huck running away from home and going on new adventures with a slave, everyone was surprised by its controversial topics and offensive racial slurs. Now, 130 years later, the book is the number one most banned book in America. The question of whether it should still be taught in school is being brought up again. The themes in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain are still relevant today, and therefore, the book should still be taught in school. Some of the themes in the book are argued to be inappropriate. A boy running away from home, the bad language, a white boy and a black man being friends, the scheming and scamming; these are all topics that some may think shouldn’t be taught in school. These are themes that need to be addressed because they are real life topics. They may have been hard to talk about in the past but now, they are good teaching devices. The controversial topics in the book...
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...The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Chapter 1 How much money did Huck get from the treasure he found? ______________________________ How much interest does he earn per day? ____________________________________________ Huck comes back to town to join ___________________________________________________. Why doesn’t Huck care about what happened to Moses in the Bible? _________________________________________________________________________________ Why doesn’t Huck want to go to heaven? ___________________________________________ Huck accidentally kills a spider. What are all the things he does to try to keep bad luck away? _____________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 2 1. Whose presence in the kitchen door stops Huck and Tom? ____________________________________ 2. How does Huck’s body threaten to betray him? _____________________________________________ 3. It is Tom who hangs Jim’s hat in the tree above Jim’s head. How does Jim explain it? _____________________________________________________________________________________ 4. If a person makes the mistake of wronging one of the boys in the band, what will happen to that person? _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Since Huck doesn’t have a family, whom does he offer as a sacrifice? __________________________ 6. What are the only two crimes in which the gang will participate? ______________________________ ...
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...ordinary ‘Pike County’ dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a hap- hazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech. I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding. THE AUTHOR. Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapter I Y OU don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly — Tom’s Aunt Polly, she is — and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. Now the...
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...religion. Having been taken into a household comprised of a widow and a spinster, the women were determined to rectify Huck’s deficiencies. One of the tactics the ladies used was to educate Huck about both heaven and hell, and to relate his behavior to the likelihood of his attaining one or the other. Unfortunately, the Widow Douglas and the spinster Miss Watson had differing ideas about the delights Providence offered. Miss Watson presented a dry account of a heaven peopled by harp playing singers, while the Widow offered a more attractive proposition. These contradictions caused Huck some consternation as he’d he felt that he’d tolerate the Widow’s heaven, but wasn’t interested in Miss Watson’s, especially as she felt his friend Tom Sawyer would not be there. There may have been a grain of truth to Miss Watson’s statement, as despite Tom having been the person who convinced Huck to return to the ladies’ home, he did so by offering Huck a chance to join his band of robbers and murderers if he would live respectably. That aside, Tom and his gang were not without redemptive qualities. When trying to find a day of the week for his band of would-be miscreants to commit their murders and robberies, it was determined that it would be wicked to perpetrate their atrocities on a Sunday. Thus, respect for the Sabbath is maintained. Huck also required education about the manner in which to pray, as the ladies were initially unable to convey to Huck that prayer should be for spiritual...
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...Summary: Chapter 29 The real Harvey Wilks, in an authentic English accent, explains the reasons he and his brother, William, were delayed: their luggage was misdirected, and his mute brother broke his arm, leaving him unable to communicate by signs. Doctor Robinson again declares the duke and the dauphin to be frauds and has the crowd bring the real and the fraudulent Wilks brothers to a tavern for examination. The frauds draw suspicion when they fail to produce the $6,000 from the Wilks inheritance. A lawyer friend of the deceased then asks the duke, the dauphin, and the real Harvey to sign a piece of paper. When the lawyer compares the writing samples to letters he has from the real Harvey, the frauds are exposed. The dauphin, however, refuses to give up and claims that the duke is playing a joke on everyone by disguising his handwriting. Because the real William serves as scribe for the real Harvey and cannot write due to his broken arm, the crowd cannot prove that the real Wilkses are indeed who they say they are. To put an end to the situation, the real Harvey declares he knows of a tattoo on his brother’s chest, asking the undertaker who dressed the body to back him up. But after the dauphin and Harvey each offer a different version of the tattoo’s appearance, the undertaker surprises everyone by telling the crowd he saw no tattoo. The mob cries out for the blood of all four men, but the lawyer instead sends them out to exhume the body and check for the tattoo themselves...
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...ongoing one. There are those who say the form of the media in which it is presented may have a lot to do with its influence on public opinion. Although, there are others who believe all forms of media hold the same amount of influence. Over the past week, media in the form of newspaper and television has been compared to each other in its reporting on various public policies. The New York Times and ABC’s World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer were looked at comparatively in their handling of stories regarding public policies for the time period specified. The key notes compared are: equal focus on policies within the media form; presence of objectivity or bias within the content; and how in depth the storyline was reported. The lack or overabundance of any of these key notes could have a significant impact on the public view of the same subject. Equal Focus on Public Policy The amount of press given to stories of public policies from The New York Times was much more significant in frequency as compared to the stories focused on by Diane Sawyer from ABC’s World News Tonight. In the past week, The New York Times discussed varied stories ranging from the potential impact the United States’ reaction to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) plans in admitting Palestine as a member could have on them if antiquated policies do not change, (Erlanger, 2011, p. A6) as well as the need for new policies to be written to safeguard New York’s status...
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...the committee entertain similar views, characterizing it as rough, coarse, and inelegant, dealing with a series of experiences not elevating, the whole book being more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people.[14] Twain later remarked to his editor, "Apparently, the Concord library has condemned Huck as 'trash and only suitable for the slums.' This will sell us another five thousand copies for sure!" Soon after, in 1905, New York’s Brooklyn Public Library also banned the book due to bad word choice and Huck having “not only itched but scratched” within the novel, which was considered obscene.[15] When asked by a Brooklyn librarian about the situation, Twain replied: I am greatly troubled by what you say. I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' & 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, & it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through...
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...A Sense of Belonging Student Name College Name A Sense of Belonging Alice Walker’s Everyday Use was about a woman who raised two daughters on a farm in the rural south during the late 1960s or early 1970s. Even though they were very poor, the eldest daughter, Dee, was able to go away to college. She was educated and very worldly. The younger sister, Maggie, stayed at home with Mama and could barely read. Although Mama and Maggie felt they belonged on the farm, Dee felt she belonged in the city, and couldn’t understand why Mama and Maggie didn’t feel the same way. Mama felt comfortable living on the farm. While waiting in the yard for Dee to arrive for a visit, she said, “a yard like this is more comfortable than most people know” (Walker, 2011, p. 283). Mama knew the yard would be a suitable place to wait. She said “the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house” (Walker, 2011, p. 283). Mama was a very practical person and content with her lot in life. She accepted the fact that she didn’t possess the skills that women typically possessed. She couldn’t sing like the other ladies in church, but she spoke proudly of her rough, “man-working hands” (Walker, 2011, p. 283). Mama was a large, big-boned, strong woman. She could slaughter animals and work hard all day just like a man. She even dressed in...
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...he Dead Father Jerome Klinkowitzís remarkably insightful review of Donald Barthelmeís work begins with an anecdote about an evening they spent together in Greenwich Village (Barthelmeís home for most of his life as a writer), and how a perfectly Freudian remark by Barthelmeís wife put a stop to the writerís boorish mood:ìëWhy Donald,í she said, ëyour fatherís is bigger than yours.íShe was referring to their respective biosin Whoís Who in America.î It is Klinkowitz's well-argued contention that Barthelmeís mid-career novel The Dead Father (1975) not only represents the high-water mark of his skill as a technical master of postmodern prose, but that it also embodies the central neurosis/inspiration driving nearly all his work, from his first published story, ìMe and Miss Mandibleî in 1961, to his last novel, Paradise (1986).(Though The King is mentioned by Klinkowitz, it is clear he considers it to be barely part of the Barthelme canon.)For Klinkowitz, Barthelmeís near-obsessive goal as a post-modernist is to ìburyî his modernist father.For instance, Klinkowitz writes that, while at first glance ìMe and Miss Mandibleî seems a perfectly Kafkaesque tale of a man awakening to grotesquely transformed circumstances, in fact it is ì[f]ree of overweening anxiety and not painfully dedicated to existential questioning or angst ...î[1] ì[Barthelmeís] first inclination is to laugh at rather than flail angrily against the forms and themes of an earlier style ...î[2]Klinkowitz cites ìThe Indian...
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...Andrew Butine Miss Halter English 103 6 February 2014 Huck Finn growth essay Huckleberry Finn changed throughout the book. He changed in three ways, socially behaviorally, and spiritually. There was one character that influenced these changes and that would be the runaway slave, Jim. And throughout this here essay, I will show you how Jim affected Huck in those three ways. One way Huck was changed spiritually is when he is writing the letter to Miss Watson about Jim when he discards it saying “well, then I will go to hell!” (twain170) This shows that Huck is willing to go to hell to help Jim and steal his family. Jim affected this change by being the reason Huck decides to do such a thing. This shows how Huck was affected spiritually. A second way Huck was changed was behaviorally. He was changed when they painted Jim blue so that “You don't have to be tied up all the time” (twain). Jim affected this change by being the one that they paint. This causes Huck to change by going along with the king and the duke’s plans and that shows when they are in public. The third way Huck was changed was socially. He was changed said “I knowed he was white inside” (twain225). Jim affected this change by being the one Huck is talking about. This causes Huck to change by going against society by saying that he did a good thing by helping tom. Saying he was white inside means that white people do good things and therefore Jim did good. These are all ways that Huck Finn changed...
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...In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the importance of “Home” is a driving force throughout the story. This essay will discuss how Huckleberry’s home is nature, how the force of nature continues to influence huck, and how hucks idea of home illuminates the larger meaning of this piece of work. The Reason nature is important to Huck is because it’s his escape from civilization. Huck shows us many home qualities of nature to him throughout the book in one instance Huck awoke from his sleep and said “The sun was up so high when I waked, that I judged it was after eight o' clock”. In our homes when we wake up in the morning we look at our alarm clock to tell what time it is. In Hucks home he uses the sun as his alarm clock checking the time by...
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... The Influences of the Society In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, I encountered a Dynamic character who struggles against society and its effort in civilizing him. Huck has to make the decision of his life to follow through with society and turn in Jim (slave) or protect him and help him escape. When Huck makes the decision to not go along with society and tears up the letter to Miss Watson it shows Huck's moral development and the moment shapes Huck as a whole because it shows you to do what you believe is morally right rather than following society’s values. As Huck is writing the letter to Miss Watson, he makes the decision to tear up the letter. Huck rips the paper and says to himself, “Alright then, I'll go to hell.”(pg 162)This is such a striking comment to read because as Huck chooses to go to hell, he has given up to the concept of an ethic of right and wrong. Huck has deserted the world of contentment and comfort to make a righteous choice. He has come to a realization that it's time to do what he believes is right no matter the consequences. Huck concludes that he is going to hell because he is helping a runaway slave escape, which society has taught him to be a sinful action. This shows Huck's moral development is progressing as he makes his own decision. It shows how Huck no longer cares about the society’s opinion. Huck comes to realize that he will not tell on Jim, and resolves to “steal Jim out of slavery”(pg. 162) instead...
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