Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
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The chosen task is number 6- a book reviewed by a newspaper (my own doing).
A unique cooperation between the New- York Times, the most influential newspaper in the world, Mark Twain, one of the most popular novelists ever lived:
Mark Twain’s is a novel about a young boy’s coming of age in the Missouri of the mid-1800s. It is the story of Huck’s struggle to win freedom for himself and
Jim, a Negro slave. was Mark Twain’s greatest book, and a delighted world named it his masterpiece. To nations knowing it well - Huck riding his raft in every language men could print - it was America’s masterpiece (Allen 259). It is considered one of the greatest novels because it conceals so well ...
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all his writing: a plea for humanity, for the end of caste, and of its cruelties (Allen 260).
Mark Twain, whose real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835. During his childhood he lived in Hannibal, Missouri, a Mississippi river port that was to become a large influence on his future writing. It was Twain’s nature to write about where he lived, and his nature to criticize it if he felt it necessary. As far his structure, Kaplan said,
In plotting a book his structural sense was weak: intoxicated by a hunch, he seldom saw far ahead, and too many of his stories peter out from the author’s fatigue or surfeit. His wayward techniques came close to free association. This method served him best after he had conjured up characters from long ago, which on coming to life wrote the narrative for him, passing from incident to incident with a grace their creator could never achieve in manipulating an artificial plot (Kaplan 16).
His best friend of ...
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However, they attempt to make Huck into what the y believe will be a better boy. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would civilize me; but it rough living in the house all the time considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways (Twain 11).This process includes making
Huck go to school, teaching him various religious facts, and making him act in a way that the women find socially acceptable.
In this first chapter, Mark Twain gives us the first direct example of communicating his feelings through Huck Finn: After supper, the Widow Douglas got out her book and learned me about Moses...By and bye she let it out that Moses had been dead a ...
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