Essays on Runaway Slave

Mark Twain was a great writer and clearly observed the social problems around him. The essay discusses “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” written by Mark Twain and focuses on the racial problem of the society and slavery. He deals with the some of these serious social problems in his writing and his writings work as a mirror for the society. There are many underlying themes and issues embedded in the story, but perhaps the most obvious statements that the author is trying to make concerns racism and slavery during that period. The setting of the story is during the ...

Motif of the Quest of Adventures of Huckleberry

A motif represents the dominant idea in any artistic material. The novel Adventures of Huckleberry brings out the motif of slavery. This is demonstrated by the novel’s setting at a time when slavery was legal before, just the Civil War. The motif is also shown through varied characters as most of the novel characters are either white slaveholders like the Phelps family, Miss Watson and the Granger ford family or are characters who indirectly profit from slavery, like the king and duke who turn in Jim - the runaway slave- to Phelpses for a reward of money. Meanwhile, ...

Introduction

The real name of Harriet Tubman at birth was Araminta Ross. She was one of the eleven children of Benjamin and Harriet. She was “hired out” as a nurse of a small child by one of the masters. She used to stay awake throughout the night to ensure that the small baby did not cry and wake the mother. When Ross fell asleep, the master would whip her. The brutal suffering she went through since young made her determined to gain freedom. She is remembered as one of the conductors who freed many slaves through the "Underground Railroad." In ...