The character Tom Sawyer is the novel's hero, who appears in almost every scene. For me he is a genius, because his imagination and way of thinking is far beyond the thought of the average of his friends. He always thinks life as a huge game in which he is one of the players. Another character is Huck, which for me implies as the follower who always agrees to others opinions and ideas. He is somewhat a subordinate because of being uneducated. Injun Joe plays as the antagonist of the novel, which is the symbol of fear among the children. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer takes place in a small 19th ...

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To teach or not to teach? This is the question that is presently on many administrators' minds about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. For those who read the book without grasping the important concepts that Mark Twain gets across "in between the lines", many problems arise. A reader may come away with the impression that the novel is simply a negative view of the African-American race. If we believe that Huck Finn is used only as a unit of racism we sell the book short. I feel that there is much to be learned about Blacks from this book and it should not be banned from the cla...

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