J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye Compared to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn All famous American authors have written novels using a variety of characters, plots, and settings to illustrate important themes. Throughout literary history many of the same themes have been stressed in di...

Liar, Liar Huck and Holden are actually two very different people with not so many similarities. For instance, Catcher in the Rye is set around the 1950/40's. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set around the 1840's. Holden comes from a wealthy New York Family. Huck comes from a poor...

How Books Changed AmericaThe books The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, there many themes that collide throughout these two books. Although these two books are different their themes are closely related. Such as the racism vs. phoniness t...

Teenagers everywhere have experienced an emotional bond with the characters Huckleberry Fin, Henry Fleming, and Holden Caulfield while reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, and The Catcher in the Rye. Huck's adventure down the Mississippi, Henry's challen...

The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, bare striking resemblances even though the authors wrote them almost 50 years apart. In particular, the two main characters, Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield, show strong similarities despite seeming li...

Cruelness is what we try to avoid for our own sake of well being. Unfortunately our lives are somewhat in other people's hands where one has a choice to make another feel small, and incompetent, making our "well being" topple from icy hands that grip our heart. With every beat it shiv...

Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caulfield are two of America's most well-known fictional characters. Both The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye have been classics for ages due to their intriguing main characters. Although their situations are on completely different ends of ...

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education," (Mark Twain). This, coming from arguably one of the best writers in western literature, is saying that education and schooling are two very different and separate things. The way he words this, he is implying that his education ...

School is in conflict - over a banned book! Who ever heard of a literary classic being banned from school? Well, that's just what happens at the George Mason High School when a small group of parents and students brand Huckleberry Finn as racist, sexist and immoral, and persuade the principal ...

This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.- - T. S. Eliot "The Hollow Men""I wanted to be scared again . . . I wanted to feel unsureagain. That's the only way I learn,the only way I feel challenged." --Connie Chung"In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak ...