… Huck is faced with a handful of problems. Sometimes he has to lie to protect his identity, live off the land by hunting and fishing, and help Jim when needed. Huck makes many life-changing decisions as he grows and matures throughout the novel.…

… 22, 2001 The federal economic budget for the first time in years has been able to overcome the problem of a budget deficit and is now operating with a surplus that is expected to continue over the next several years. With this overall achievement…

… Jane Eyre. The passage read shows that she is alone, honest, and determined. This provides a characterization of Jane Eyre. The first sentence, which states, “The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect…

… spare, and journalistic. These are all good words; they all apply. Perhaps because of his training as a newspaperman, Hemingway is a master of the declarative, subject-verb-object sentence. His writing has been likened to a boxer's punches--com…

… the main character Joe Christmas is portrayed as a Christ figure. There are many similarities between the two. Most of the similarities are subtly mentioned, but there is some obvious resemblance as well. For example, Joe Christmas and Jesus Christ…

… have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life to be like at some future time. One such author, Ray Bradbury, utilized this concept…

… rebirth of a man's conscience dealing with his troubling trials throughout the novel. The character that goes through this monumental change is Tom Joad, son of a tenant farmer from Oklahoma. Tom's conscience was changed from a loner who cared nothing…

… to a southern family is Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner has written a substantial amount of short stories and novels from his little farm in Oxford. As I Lay Dying, a novel by Faulkner has received much praise and was ranked in 1992 as one of the top…

… Clarke Ha Ha Ha. The first one we encounter, on the first page in fact, is the relationship he has with his friends. At the beginning of the novel his friends are a hugely important part of his life, but as the novel progresses, they gradually become…

… Letter, and one of those characters is Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes of a puritan society, and it is the laws of that society, both written and unwritten, that Dimmesdale breaks and which causes the changes to occur.…