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The Perfect Huckleberry Finn Analysis

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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
English Department
Graduation project
Code: 496N
ID: 210024657

Paper Title:
Ecocriticism inThe Perfect Hug and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a Camping Primer

Student's Name:
Sarah Khalid Alkhaldy

Supervisor:
Dr. Sabah Aisawi 1436- 2015

Outline

Ecocriticism in The Perfect Hug and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a Camping Primer

I. Introduction:

II. Children picture book:

III. Eco criticism:

IV. The Perfect Hug: a. The writer and the book: b. Why it is Eco criticism:
c. Concept of the hug:

V. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a Camping Primer a. The writer and the book:
b. Why it is Eco criticism:
c. Concept of friendship:

VI. Conclusion: …show more content…

Why it is Ecocriticism:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as one of children’s novels and which was written by Mark Twain is considered eco-criticism as in its different aspects there is an attempt of the author to reveal the hatred towards racism and slavery and shows interaction between man and his natural surroundings in environment around him. Huck escapes slavery and racism and seeks shelter away from that hateful place which made him abominate racism in all its forms and he went away as a runaway who interacts with the island he fled to.
It is worth mentioning to say that this classic novel involvesrepeated use of the "N"-word and other old-fashioned terms now, but the book is obviously anti-racist and anti-slavery. Little children may be in need of need some help seeing how Twain employs the racist talk to demonstrate the folly of racism and the characters who adopt it. Huck has been taught to be racist, too, but he vanquishes this, even though he supposes doing so is not right-- a smart approach that may be too complicated for some of those young readers to grasp without being helped. There's also some violence and miscellaneous deaths, involving two …show more content…

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