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Holden Caulfield and Huck Finn, 2005.
Examines how these two characters from different novels rebel against the system.
1,223 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 60.95
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Non-conformity has always been a popular topic for novels, especially those with teenagers as the protagonists. The paper shows, however, that no two books have ever better expressed all of male adolescents' contradictions and rock-solid beliefs than J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" and Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". The paper shows that although the two novels are separated by seventy years, there are still many striking similarities between Huck and Holden in their attitudes towards conformity, religion, money, lying and most importantly, escape from the lives that they feel claustrophobic in.
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"Both Holden Caulfield and Huck Finn refuse to conform to the rules and social mores of the society in which they are forced to live in. Although neither is exactly able to define what is wrong with their society, they know instinctively that it is wrong. Huck assumes that he is a moral reject for not accepting the beliefs that everyone swallows with absolutely no qualms, while Holden doesn't understand how people can accept such horrible beliefs merely because everyone else does. Meanwhile, they are both able to consciously say "This society is bad, it needs to change," but neither are able to affect any sort of permanent changes at all. Nor are they able to fully escape it."
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Holden Caulfield, 2005.
An analysis of the character of Holden Caulfield from J.D. Salinger's "A Catcher in the Rye".
991 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 51.95
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Many people find that their dreams are unreachable. This paper examines how Holden Caulfield realizes this in J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye". As Holden tells his story, he recounts the events since leaving the Pencey School to his psychiatrist. It looks at how at first, Holden sounds like a typical, misguided teenager, rebellious towards his parents, angry with his teachers, and flunking out of school. However, as his story progresses, it shows how it becomes clear that Holden is indeed motivated, just not academically. He has a purpose: To protect the young and innocent minds of young children from the "horrors" of adult society. He hopes to freeze the children in time, as wax figures are frozen in a museum.
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"Holden wants to protect the innocence of his sister and every other innocent child in the world. Before Holden meets Sally for their date, he stops in front of the Museum of Natural History and begins to reminisce. He thinks about the way he visited the museum when he was younger. He also tells that every time one visits the museum, he is changed in some way, but the figures in the exhibits always stay the same. He wants to be able to preserve some things in the glass: "Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone," (122). "
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Comparison: Stephen Dedalus and Holden Caulfield, 2002.
This paper shows how Stephen Dedalus, the main character in James Joyce?s "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", has a remarkable similarity to Holden Caulfield of J.D. Salinger?s "Catcher in the Rye".
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 47.95
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An exploration of the similar characteristics and personalities of Stephen Dedalus and Holden Caulfield. The writer shows that this similarity is not just in terms of the situations and incidents that occur in their respective novels, but also in the way both personalities are characterized. Both of these characters have the same outlook on life, the same voice and style, and the same attitude or temperament. Because of the authors? ability to portray characters so clearly, it is possible to draw some significant comparisons between the two protagonists.
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"Neither stephen Dedalus nor Holden Caulfield know exactly what to do with themselves in their respective futures, and both are extremely unsatisfied with their present circumstances. The only major difference between their characters is that although each of them are faced with similar problems and challenges, their reactions to these challenges vary significantly. This may be due to external circumstances, however, and not because of basic differences in the characters themselves."
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Huck Finn and Jim: An Influential Journey, 2006.
An analysis of the relationship between Huck Finn and Jim in Mark Twain's novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 72.95
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This paper examines the theme of moral growth and compassion in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The paper also deals with human behaviour and moral issues in the book, especially involving racism and slavery. Huck, the central character, is a young, adventurous boy who is not only running away from his drunk, abusive father, but also the structured rules and laws of society and religion that surround him. Jim, another central character in the novel, is a black slave running away from his owners, Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, hoping to find freedom not only for himself, but for his family as well. The paper takes a particular look at the encounter between Huck and Jim, who decide to join forces and keep each other company on their individual journeys. The paper asserts that Jim quickly takes on the role as Huck's surrogate father. It concludes that, although Huck grew up without a strong father figure in his life, the influential relationship with Jim and their journey together allows him to change his perspective on life and develop into a strong, moral human being.
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"Even though Huck does not do what society expects of him, the burden of his choice no longer weighs heavily on him and results in a sense of ease and peace. Huck says, "what's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?...I reckoned I wouldn't bother no more about it, but after this always do whichever come handiest at the time" (1308). Huck is willing to go to hell, for his decision to protect Jim. They both feel at home on the raft together and enjoy each other's company. Huck states, "other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft" (1324). As time passes and their journey towards freedom continues, he realizes that Jim is a good man who is not only devoted to Huck, but his family as well. Jim's goal is to be free man, so that he can then work in order to free his family from slavery as well. Huck knows that Jim misses his family terribly when he says to himself, "I waked up, just as day-break, he was setting there with his head down betwixt his knees, moaning and mourning to himself...He was thinking about his wife and his children, away up yonder, and he was low and homesick" (1348). Although Huck has grown up an orphan, it is Jim's love for his own family that influences Huck and develops him into a stronger, loving, and moral human being. Huck learns that a black man has the same loving bond with their families, just like white people do. He says, "I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n. It don't seem natural, but I reckon it's so...He was a mighty good nigger, Jim was" (1348). It is in making this observation that Huck realizes that black people aren't just possessions or property, they are human beings with feelings, emotions and family bonds; which makes his decision to help Jim find freedom all the more feasible."
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Civilization in the Eyes of Huck Finn, 2000.
A look at how Huck Finn, Mark Twain's immortal character, sees the world and how it compares to his notion of civilization.
529 words (approx. 2.1 pages), 1 source, AU$ 28.95
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" If Huck Finn had to give an explicit definition of the term ?civilization?, he would probably feel somewhat ambivalent towards the term. Although Huck?s idea of civilization is floating down a river on a raft doing whatever comes his way, he will never really feel complacent about his lifestyle. Huck quickly becomes bored with that notion and on numerous occasions finds himself stopping in a town for something to do. Huck is a very simple-minded young boy who feels no emotional attachment to anybody close to him including his pseudo-mother, the widow, or his father, Pap. A home to Huck is like a maximum security prison."
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The Debate over the Use of "Huck Finn" in the School Curriculum, 2000.
A discussion of different ideas about whether "Huck Finn" should be included in the school curriculum, and the author's personal view that Twain's purpose is to capture the essence of slavery so that readers can identify with each racial incident.
968 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 50.95
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"In Mark Twain?s The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, a young boy is forced to ponder the nature of friendship and to find a sense of his own moral vision making his way down the Mississippi with a runaway slave. Young Huck also happens to use the term ?nigger? two hundred and thirteen times. In recent years, the racial implications of every aspect of the novel have become subjects of critical debate. Its colloquial style and embodiment of the enduring and widely shared dream of freedom have moved people of all ages so much that they plan to ban the novel from certain schools. "
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"A True Book -- With Some Stretchers: Huck Finn Today" by Charles Nichols, 1992.
A review of Charles Nichols' book, which examines Mark Twain's classic novel Huck Finn for the lessons it has to teach us today.
450 words (approx. 1.8 pages), 1 source, AU$ 22.95
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"Charles H. Nichols in his essay "'A True Book--With Some Stretchers': Huck Finn Today" analyzes the book for what it says to us today. He notes the fact that there has been controversy surrounding the novel of late because it represents the nineteenth century and certain nineteenth-century attitudes about race, including the use of en epithet for blacks that is now seen as demeaning. Those who focus on this word and not on the context are missing the real nature of the book, and Nichols is right in noting this. He is also right in finding ways in which the book tries to depict several different levels of the society of the time and to show how they differ from one another while also finding ways in which they reflect certain underlying attitudes that might be seen as defining America.
One of the attitudes most criticized by Twain is the..."
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Holden Caulfield and Seymour Glass, 2006.
A comparative analysis of the protagonists from J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" and "A Perfect Day for Bananafish".
1,595 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 76.95
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This paper examines how the characters Holden Caulfield, in "The Catcher in the Rye" and Seymour Glass in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish, have many characteristics in common. It looks at how both characters are non-conformists who don't fit in with the traditional American culture, how both have a love for children, and a hatred for "phonies" and how both have an obsession with death.
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"Seymour is interested in the company of four-year old Sybil Carpenter, a child he believes he can save from becoming a "phony". While swimming with the young girl, Seymour tells a tale of fish who swim into holes filled with bananas. These bananafish then gorge themselves on the fruit and, too fat to swim out of the holes, die of banana fever. Seymour is not a bananafish; it is the phonies of the world who are guilty of bingeing themselves with meaningless material objects until they become so superficial they are beyond hope of ever attaining spiritual purity. These people are intentional bananafishes."
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Human Morality in "Huck Finn" and "A Connecticut Yankee", 2000.
2,395 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 107.95
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This paper shows through Mark Twain's books "Huck Finn" and "A Connecticut Yankee" that one of Twain's major convictions is that people are innately evil. With examples from both books to illustrate the point, the paper shows how Twain uses his narrators as a channel to convey the message that society and the masses are cruel, and always projects a hero as the isolated person, brave enough to transcend the rules and achieve a higher ideal.
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"In The Damned Human Race, Twain declares that he has been "studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so-called), and contrasting them with traits and dispositions of man" (Devoto 176). The results were "humiliating." His findings can be uncovered throughout the two novels. "Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it" (Devoto 179). These are Twain's own words, and they come to life in Yankee when Hank relays the images of the knights and ladies watching a dogfight and after the tournament, when the screams of the dying losers resonate throughout the stadium (Kepos 385)."
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Huck Finn and Religion, 2003.
This paper is in essay form and offers a critique on Mark Twain's handling of the usefulness of religion in society.
1,123 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 56.95
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Religion is a major sub-theme in the adventures of "Huckleberry Finn" and Twain takes many shots at organised religion through events in the text and through the moral awakening of a naive boy, Huck. This paper discusses why it is important to remember that Twain does not tell us that religion is useless, rather that organised religion?s place in society is. It shows how Twain offers a critique about organised religion in its practical or rather impractical form, its teaching form and its place in society.
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"Mark Twain offers a critique about society?s ingrained flaws, such as organised religion through a naive, good-hearted boy. Since Huck Finn is mainly interested in the tangible, hence he, ?don?t take stock in dead people,? Huck saw the story of ?Moses and the bullrushers? as being ?no use to no one.? Huck, just as many members of society were only ?learned? of religious stories and practices not true religious meaning, to Twain this is a ?powerful of fault.? The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn suggest that religion is not understood by all of society. The rules, the routines and the hope of finding ?the good place,? are known but how it all relates to everyday life is not grasped."
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Psychological Profile: Caulfield, Holden - Preliminary Diagnosis: Negative Effectivity, Borderline Schizophrenia, 2001.
A psychological analysis of a young man with the recognized symptoms for negative affectivity which may signal the onset of a schizophrenic condition.
831 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 43.95
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In this paper the author makes a psychological analysis of a 16 year old youth who is demonstrating various recognized symptoms for negative affectivity. The author looks at all of the symptoms and attempts to asses what has led both to the symptoms and behavior of the youth. The author considers the youth?s relationship with his parents and siblings and also the effect on the youth of his brother?s death.
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?Vacillations such as declaring himself an atheist one minute and praying to God the next Caulfield is in a flux of coming to terms with his own identity, not an uncommon trait among teens. The difference in Caulfield's behavior and normal ?growing pains? are the extreme inter personal negativity, paranoia (e.g. knowing he is going to die from cancer because of a canker sore), and the descent into delusional behavior (e.g. speaking with his dead brother).?
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Contrasting Huck and Tom in Twain's "Huckleberry Finn", 2000.
An in-depth look at the differences between the two main characters in "Huckleberry Finn", Huck and Tom.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 57.95
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This paper looks at the differences between the characters Huck and Tom in Twain's "Huckleberry Finn". Examples from the text are used to illustrate how the two live by very different codes of conduct, hold contrasting views on societal values and humanity, and serve as a foil to each other, representing both the good and bad nature of people.
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"Their differences are noted in the very first chapters. Tom leaves five cents for the candles that they steal, but Huck considers it "borrowing". Tom is conforming to social rules; he knows that it is wrong for a person to take what doesn?t belong to him. But Huck sees things in a different way. He just intends on using the candles for a while and then plans to return them. He believes in the barter system: give what you can, take only what you need. He is not concerned with keeping ?things? and he is not concerned with money. He has no use for it. Money is something that society developed in order to monitor and control the exchange of goods and services. Huck wants no part of that kind of human interaction..." "
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The Relationship Between Huck and Jim in "Huckleberry Finn", 2001.
A look at how Twain's characters in "Huckleberry Finn" reveal Twain's views on society.
3,035 words (approx. 12.1 pages), 9 sources, AU$ 130.95
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This paper shows how Twain uses the characterization and the interactions between the characters to not only show his view of society at the time, which was mainly hypocritical, but to also illustrate that friendship between Huck and Jim can emerge from an evil society, by going beyond the norms of society.
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"Mark Twain?s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain describes the adventures of Huck and Jim as his own criticism of a corrupt, hypocritical society. Huck is considered an uneducated, backwards boy, constantly pressured to conform to society by other people. Jim, a slave, is counted as property, and not even as a real person. Both of them flee from their oppressive surroundings, and eventually ride on a raft down the Mississippi River, in which they seem to have freedom only on the water, while facing social injustices on land. Twain employs his use of characterization, and the interactions between the characters to not only show his view of society at the time, which was mainly hypocritical, but to also illustrate that friendship between Huck and Jim can emerge from an evil society."
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Huck in the Mansion of the Yellow Wallpaper, 2006.
A creative writing paper combining the character of Huck Finn with the story line of the "Yellow Wallpaper".
1,073 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 54.95
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This is a creative writing paper that is narrated from the perspective of the fictional character Huck Finn, of Mark Twain's classic American novel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". The paper puts Huck in the room described in Charlotte Perkins Gilmore's story, "The Yellow Wallpaper", where he describes the room and it's former occupant, the main character in "The Yellow Wallpaper", as well as his own feelings about gaining one's freedom.
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"I always said that having to be civilized was all a man done needed to be driven plumb crazy, and I guess that's true of women too. I remember way back when, when I was being trapped in a room with all of these drawings of a girl who had died, this girl who spent so much time thinkin' of heaven when she was alive it seemed she done thought herself dead. I thought religion and civilization had made her dead crazy. And she died even before she could make her final creepy drawing so there that picture was, staring at me, with this ghoulish girl reaching up to the sky, with all of these arms 'cause the girl couldn't decide what pair of arms looked better."
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"Huckleberry Finn"., 2002.
This paper is a reader review "Huck Finn" and its connection to racism.
1,775 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 97.95
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This paper argues that different readers interpret the racist slurs within the book differently. The author points out that, for this reason, there must be a carefulness with sensitivity.
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"Huckleberry Finn", 2004.
An analysis of the novel "Huckleberry Finn" written by Mark Twain.
1,249 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 62.95
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This paper discusses the American classic "Huckleberry Finn", explaining how the author, Mark Twain, relates the adventures of Huck Finn and his companion Jim in such a way that the reader can sense that the story is based on true events. The paper examines Twain's use of characterization, setting and dialogue. The paper claims that Twain inserted himself into the novel via some very clever plot constructions and one of the best examples of this can be found in his descriptions of life on the Mississippi River as it relates to Huck Finn and Jim. The paper also states that Twain inserted his own experiences as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River into the story, a suggestion that can be supported by numerous extracts from the novel.
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"During the Civil War, Twain served as a lieutenant in the Confederate Army but was quickly discharged because of undisclosed ailments. He then joined his brother Orion once again but this time in Nevada. Soon after, Twain tried his hand at being a prospector; when this failed, he became a reporter in Carson City, Nevada. By 1862, he was the city editor of the Virginia City Enterprise in which he first used the pseudonym of Mark Twain, "a depth call of the Mississippi pilots" (Kunitz 159). He then met Charles Farrar Browne who encouraged Twain to seek a literary career; some of his first stories were crude and full of tall stories and hoaxes."
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