Why Does Mark Twain Choose Huck Finn?

The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines morals as “the principles of right and wrong in behavior.” Since Huck is not particularly influenced by religious beliefs, his ideas of moral behavior are a tad different. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain shows Huck grow as a character from the start where he faked his own death, to the end where he decides to not turn in Jim. Huck considers Jim to be a friend, and the story reveals how Huck holds this friendship higher than other moral actions. Jim is a complicated subject for Huck because on one hand, he “steals” Jim from the widow, supports a runaway slave, and harbors a fugitive.

James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Autobiography) and Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust (Locust) are two fictional novels which portray America’s overwhelming social influence on the individual. Both protagonists, while astutely observing the superficiality of society, unknowingly become a part of the society’s duplicitousness. Just as Tod Hackett in Locust does not see himself as a part of the collective Hollywood-types, the mulatto unnamed narrator in Autobiography does not identify himself in either black or white community. The extent of individuals being unaware of their own participation in the flaws of society they note is highlighted with Tod unwittingly falling into the scripted lifestyle of Hollywood

In the Gideon’s Trumpet, the protagonist, Earl Gideon, was faced with the face of inequality. He could not afford an attorney, and Gideon was denied the right to have an attorney. Gideon had to defend himself without knowing anything about law. Clearance was convicted, but he believed that his institutional rights got denied. Without knowing Gideon would play a big role to help others; it will bring equality and help for diverse people in our society.

He argues that the British’s support for social control, meant renouncing the individual alone, and given his propensity towards anarchy, he disapproved of their socialist nature. He denounced the cultural homogeneity of American society, their heedlessness and indifference, and the crooked, nefarious nature of law enforcement. Deemed as his most famous novel, A Clockwork Orange has been regarded considerably influential in areas of literary, visual, and music culture. However, prior to its release there was hesitation on publishing the novel due to worries of being an ‘enormous flop’ (Independent, 2012).

In “The Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald’s Opulent Synthesis (1925)”, Robert and Helen Roulston express Fitzgerald’s doubts about the novel. At first, Fitzgerald is not happy with the title because he believes it does not accurately reflect the theme of Gatsby as a victim of the American Dream. Many aspects of the novel reflect events and people in Fitzgerald’s life. Robert and Helen Roulston analyze the similarities between the characters and people in Fitzgerald’s past. The authors also examine the artistic elements in the novel and compare Fitzgerald to other authors.

Although he was considered as the Father of American short story. But this is a little bit disputed matter since Edgar Alan Poe was also considered as the Father of American short story, but sometimes this saying was corrected as Poe is a Father of modern American short story. If consider Poe and Irving lived and wrote at the same period, the correction made by adding the word “modern” doesn’t make any sense. Concerning the identification of the real Father of American short story raised several disputes. Comparison studies started to compare the similarities and differences of writing styles of both Washington Irving and Edgar Alan Poe.

However, the use of dialects in Twain’s novel poses the question; does it make the novel less of an achievement? Twain’s use of dialect, which has proved controversial over the years, certainly adds to the vividness of Huckleberry Finn. Because it is sometimes difficult to understand the speech while reading, we are almost forced to read aloud: at the very least, one has to be able to “hear” the voices in one’s own head. Performance is important in this novel, as Tom Sawyer’s follies and the duke and the dauphin’s cons demonstrate. In the world of the novel, the way in which a character converses is closely related to that character’s status in society.

He is integrates his view Romanticism by the means of Tom Sawyer, the king, and also the duke. Mark Twain uses Tom Sawyer and his gang to show ones view of life during the romanticism era; Likewise, Twain gathers his view on Romanticism using the king and the duke to show how people were inconsiderate of others of his day. Twain’s most notable instance in which he attacks Romanticism is at the beginning of the novel when Tom starts the Tom Sawyer Gang. After taking an oath the men were prepared for whatever Tom had up his sleeves.

Mbue contrasts Jende and Neni’s beliefs on the reality of them achieving the American Dream and analyzes the irony in the evolution of their opinions. In the beginning of the novel, Mbue describes Neni’s concerns about their future success in America after she received news that Jende’s papers might not be validated by saying, “This helplessness crushed [Neni], the fact that she had travelled to America only to be reminded of how powerless she was, how unfair life could be” (62). She feels this “helplessness” because obtaining papers is yet another obstacle they must face to achieve their dreams

Although his ends in an impasse. The lines between reality and fiction, what is credible and not, blur suggesting that the myth America will create for itself is disingenuous. The need and desire to fabricate the past results in no real accountability or adequate satisfaction to society. The story proves that society does not want to recognize its past. It wants to create one that justifies their current actions.

The articles of confederation was written right after the revolutionary war was fought, however, the AOC failed, so they had to start all over with a new document called the constitution. 9 out of 13 colonies needed to ratify the new constitution for it to take effect. When it came to organize the government after the AOC, the people were divided on how the government should handle the fears of social, political, and economic fears which motivated the 2 parties, federalist and antifederalist. The federalists supported the new constitution, while the anti federalists were opposed. The political motivation for the federalists to support the ratification was they believed that a stronger government was necessary as the AOC had failed previously

After America’s fight for freedom and the brief period of time when there was no human being ruling over them, the Framers saw this as their chance to reinvent the country. However, the Framers viewed people as “an atom of self-interest”, meaning that they only care about their personal success and necessities. This became difficult during the secretive meetings of the Constitutional Convention, as they were trying to start forming what would be the Constitution. It became clearer that “this distrust in man was a first and foremost concern”. At the time, the Framers believed that men “of affairs, merchants, lawyers, planter-businessmen, speculators, investors (essentially middle and lower-class citizens) were evil, selfish, contentious.”

Yes, the authors feel he had no equal, at least in his time period, they feel this way mainly because of his differences from JFK. Schweikart and Allen prefer Lyndon’s expansive Great Society to Kennedy’s little attention to racial issues. Though, perhaps the authors believe LBJ focused too much on the Great Society, and not enough on his Campaign, among other things. In PHUS, Zinn believes the new civil rights laws did not help people of color as much as the president pretended to. Adding on to Schweikart and Allen’s information, Zinn includes key facts and statistics about the unemployment gap between races, reasons for uprisings, and civil rights laws passed.

The minute immersion of reading Woody Holton’s Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution takes place, the reader is quick to notice this book is written differently from most other books written about the same time. Holton, takes on the status quo in regards to how the Constitution was founded, and who was involved in the creation of the Constitution. Most students of history have been taught to believe that the Constitution was written to encourage democracy and protect civil rights. However, Holton’s arguments are different, as he claims that what advanced the Constitution was a struggle between the haves and have-nots which spiraled from a nation of excess democracy to one of less, meaning taking direct power away from the people

TR’s decision to run was somewhat of a surprise because he would be campaigning directly against the very man he had selected to succeed him, “He was fearful that the people would blame him for foisting William Howard Taft on them; but he was not the betrayer, rather he was, as he saw it, the betrayed” (Chace 383). Roosevelt could not stand by and watch all the hard work he had done as president slowly unravel, as Taft himself writes in a letter addressed to Roosevelt, “I do not know that I have had harder luck than other presidents but I do know that thus far I have succeeded far less than have others. I have been conscientiously trying to carry out your policies, but my method for doing so has not worked smoothly”. Unable to ignore what he considered a cry for help, TR campaigned to be the Republican candidate, but was unsuccessful despite popular support and defeating Taft in almost every state, including his home state(Gould) Determined to not accept defeat, a group of former Republicans unhappy with the outcome of the Republican convention in Chicago nominated Roosevelt for the recently assembled Progressive party.