Social Conflict in �Huckleberry Finn� and Other Stories
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A 5 page paper looking at Mark Twain�s Huckleberry Finn, plus five other short stories and novellas, in terms of their treatment of the conflict between the demands of society and individual expression. Stories covered include Sarah Orne Jewett�s �A White Heron;� Ambrose Bierce�s �An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge;� Stephen Crane�s �The Open Boat,� Henry James� �The Real Thing;� and Charlotte Perkins Gilman�s �The Yellow Wallpaper.� No additional sources.
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The Battle Against Society in Twain and Salinger
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A seven page paper looking at the way the two adolescent protagonists of Mark Twain�s �The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn� and J.D. Salinger�s �Catcher in the Rye� battle against their respective societies because they instinctively feel that their culture is wrong. Although the issues are very different -- slavery in �Huck Finn�, the emptiness of upper-class values in �Catcher� -- both boys undergo maturational experiences which suggest that they will make a difference in society as they grow up. Bibliography lists three sources.
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The Infrastructure of Chapter 10 of Twain�s �Tom Sawyer�
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A 5 page look at this pivotal chapter immediately following the murder of Injun Joe. The paper illustrates the tension between imagery of fear and death and the boyhood world Tom normally inhabits. No additional sources.
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The Maturing of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
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A fifteen page paper comparing these two protagonists in Mark Twain�s �The Adventures of Tom Sawyer� and �The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.� The paper shows that Tom remains childlike because he is essentially conventional, and has never been forced to make adult decisions; Huck, on the other hand, has forged his own code of ethics at an early age. No additional sources.
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The Plausibility of Twain�s �Huckleberry Finn�
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A five page paper which looks at the historical background of Mark Twain�s classic novel. The paper looks at, among other things, the separation of slave families in the antebellum South and the lack of children�s rights in the nineteenth century. Bibliography lists four sources.
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The Two Sides of Mark Twain
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A 7 page paper on the life and works of Mark Twain. It points out that the persona the author presents in the earlier short stories [Innocents Abroad, The Gilded Age, The Prince & The Pauper, etc;] is much different than the one he presents in Huckleberry Finn. Bibliography lists 5 sources including Twain's books.
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Tom and Huck�s Friendship in Twain�s �Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'
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A 7 page look at the relationship of these two boyhood friends in Mark Twain�s classic novel. The paper argues that the significant differences between Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer actually encapsulate the novel�s theme. No additional sources.
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Twain's 'Huck Finn' and Emerson's 'Self-Reliance'
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A five page paper showing how Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay aids the reader in understanding the motivation of Huck in Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' The paper argues that the social rules cannot keep Huck from answering the call of his conscience and his heart. No additional sources.
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Twain/Dickens�A Comparison
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A 12 page research paper that examines Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit and Mark Twain's Puddn'head Wilson. The writer argues that these novels were actually quite similar even though their subject matter was extremely different. They both deal with the social issues of their time and each shows how some of the accepted concepts of their particular period of history were really ludicrous. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Twain�s �Connecticut Yankee� as an Indictment of Technology
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A 6 page paper looking at Mark Twain�s �A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur�s Court� as an indictment of both technology and industrialism in the nineteenth century. The paper argues that Twain likened Camelot to nineteenth-century America, which he viewed as enraptured with potentially destructive technology whose dangers they did not appreciate. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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