Mark Twain's The Divergent

On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was sworn into office as the 44th President of the United States of America. As the first African American president, Obama started a legacy of change in America, as well as a legacy of newly unveiled prejudice and racism that has plagued African Americans for centuries. Obama’s inauguration helped uncover racism in government that did not end with the abolishment of slavery. Discrimination against free African Americans has been a problem in this country since before the idea of unlawful enslavement was discussed. Mark Twain contributed to the discussion of post-Civil War racism with his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In this novel, Jim, an escaped slave, is freed via his owner’s death,

Divergent is a dystopian novel that takes place in a futuristic Chicago. The setting also looks like a perfect Utopia, but as you go on reading you find out that it has a lot of problems. In the novel there was a war that was caused by differences in people's ideologies. The war caused Chicago to be divided into five factions. Each faction has a virtue which they value and cultivate. The five factions are Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless, and Erudite. The Abnegation faction values selflessness, the Amity peace, the Candor honesty, the Dauntless bravery, and the Erudite intelligence. Throughout the novel the main character is Tris which was born in Abnegation and chose to go to the Dauntless faction. Chicago in the novel is governed by a group of people from

The title of the short story I have read is ?The Invalid?s Story? by Mark Twain. At the beginning of the story we meet a man whom?s name is unknown. He is transporting the body of a childhood friend John B. Hackett who died the day before from ?unknown causes?. The body of his friend is in a coffin which he refers to as a ?gun box?. A box of Limburger cheese was set at the foot of the ?gun box?. While on the train the expressman whose name is Thompson finds out that the man is transporting a dead body and starts to ask him about who?s the body and about his life. The smell of the body is very potent so Thompson makes a comment about how the body is ripe. He has

     "Mark Twain, which is a pseudonym for Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was born in 1835, and died in 1910. He was an american writer and humorist. Maybe one of the reasons Twain will be remembered is because his writings contained morals and positive views. Because Twain's writing is so descriptive, people look to his books for realistic interpretations of places, for his memorable characters, and his ability to describe his hatred for hypocrisy and oppression. HE believed he could write. Most authors relied on other people and what they said, but because Twain was so solitary, he made himself so successful. 1"

Ever since the bird spoke into a microphone at a giant event he has been getting fans following him everywhere. Sometimes it gets annoying for the bird when fans are bugging him too much. Like the other day someone stole his favorite socks! But today that can't happen because he has to go to a special event that will boost his career. If fans bug him today his career will be ruined! Today is a special day for the bird. When the bird woke up, he put on his new tuxedo and shiny boots. He was so excited for the special event because he could possibly get an even better career. But he still loves his old job, but he just needs a little bit more money because it is hard for him to keep paying for the house he bought because his job pays minimum

The book Fahrenheit 451 creates a character named Clariesse. In the book the author creates her as an odd person and shows that she has love for her life. The author makes this clear and says "She enjoys rain, dandelions, autumn leaves, and even sessions with her analyst, who misdiagnosis her exuberance for living." Somebody who has love for their life soaks in all the good things that are going on and blocks out all the bad. When the author says that she loves all those things, it shows that she spends a lot of time just enjoying what she has. The book also creates her as an odd person. The author makes this clear as well and says, "She has so many questions to ask me that make me look deeper that I want to look into myself." During the time

Montag all throughout your life have you ever noticed the little details that surround you? All around the world there are things other than parlor walls, they are people who truly live and understand true emotion. Don't you want to be one of those people? I may look like a stranger to you, but aren't we all strangers with no connection towards each other. And aren't we more connected to the technology that surrounds all of us, "And if not the three walls soon to be four walls and the dream complete, then it was the open car and Mildred driving a hundred miles an hour across town," (46). Literature may seem like a terrible object, saying that's how you've perceived books your whole life, "His hands had been infected, and soon it

Through his scathing remarks on the flaws of man, Twain finally actualizes the focal point of his argument, the Defect of Man. He claims that Man, in “true loftiness of character,” cannot claim to surpass even the lowest realm of the Higher Animals nor will he ever be capable of even approaching that altitude (3). Because, as he argues, Man is so “constitutionally afflicted” with this defect, it inhibits his person, permanently halting any acclivity he attempts to make in his standings. The perpetual Defect Twain speaks of, which is present in every human, is the thought to be beneficial, Moral Sense. Contrarily, he asserts that it only has one capacity in man, to facilitate man’s wrongdoings, an ability as valueless as a disease. While he

Samuel Clemens was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, the sixth of seven children. At the age of four, Sam and his family moved to the small frontier town of Hannibal, Missouri on the banks of the Mississippi River. Missouri, at the time, was a fairly new state (it had gained statehood in 1820) and comprised part of the country's western border. It was also a slave state. Sam's father owned one slave and his uncle owned several. In fact, it was on his uncle's farm that Sam spent many boyhood summers playing in the slave quarters, listening to tall tales and the slave spirituals that he would enjoy throughout his life.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is perhaps the most distinguished author of American Literature. Next to William Shakespeare, Clemens is arguably the most prominent writer the world has ever seen. In 1818, Jane Lampton found interest in a serious young lawyer named John Clemens. With the Lampton family in heavy debt and Jane only 15 years of age, she soon arried John. The family moved to Gainesboro, Tennessee where Jane gave birth to Orion Clemens. In the summer of 1827 the Clemenses relocated to Virginia where John

Overall I found Freakonomics interesting and very cool because some of the topics they touched on and how they linked them back together. I also liked the depth the authors went into like the baby names breaking down all the life choices a child could make just because his or her name is a little different then the kid sitting next to them in class. The authors also covered bunch of different scenarios throughout the book and the different incentives that might have lead them to breaking a law of or working harder in school. When I think of the book as a whole I feel like I just had a lesson at school but one with more interesting topics and ideas on how to fix the crazy problem or topic. The authors also make you feel more involved putting

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Fictional book based on a troubled young boy who grew up in a hostile environment. One day he ran away and never looked back, the storyline is about how Huck Finn travels down the Mississippi River with his runaway friend Jim, who everyone in town is looking for. They encounter many different people and situations that help shape Huck into the man that he never thought he would become. In the beginning of the book Huck wasn’t the most understanding or caring person but throughout the book he started to think, care, and act out of kindness for others.

In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the classic novel tells the story of a adolescent boy who finds it hard to fit into “civilized” society, which casts him out with an escaping slave by the name of Jim to float the Mississippi River. Throughout their journey Huck and Jim experience a combination of adventure and danger followed by a pool of humorous and foul characters. Throughout this novel Twain demonstrates that, “the existence of slavery and virulent racial prejudice in such country are dedicated to liberty and equality, which were a major contradiction in American history after World War II (Mintz, “Rethinking Huck”).

In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the quote: “Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before" (220) raises the question of what civilization really is. Written by Mark Twain, and published in 1884, the novel Huckleberry Finn follows the travels of a young boy named Huck, who runs away from his abusive father, and partners up with a runaway slave named Jim. As the story progresses, Jim and Huck develop a deep friendship, and Huck begins to value Jim as an independent human, breaking away from his southern way of thinking. The novel explores and satires many aspects of “American life” at that time including civilization’s hypocrisy, as demonstrated by slavery, civilization, human nature, and greed.

Have you ever wondered how life would be like if society was divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue ? What if you were different and did not belong in any of the given factions? Then you are a lot like Tris. Tris Prior is the main character in the dystopian novel Divergent, by Veronica Roth. She lives in a world where she must hide her true uniqueness as a Divergent individual, otherwise she puts her life at risk. Tris's aptitude test result was inconclusive, she has the ability to manipulate simulations and throughout the book she shows characteristics from different factions which concludes that she is Divergent. Divergence is to be special in the sense that you