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Analysis Of Novels

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Surname 1 Name Instructor Course Date Week 5 discussions Mark Twain's 'The Professional? In the novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” the Mississippi River is used as a metaphor to represent freedom from the social bondage and injustice. In the novel, the river represented a clear way that would lead to freedom from the social injustices to a path that led to a rebirth. For Twain, he uses a vivid description of the flow of a river to demonstrate the path to freedom. Throughout the novel, Twain compares the river to a book that is read so that its meaning can be understood as it rolls out its plot. Through the use of a book, we get to understand the languages a river uses as it flows through the landscapes. A river gets its shape and flows from its ability to read the landscape and the sky just the same way a book is read to find its meaning. What makes the river different from a book is that a river assumes different forms while a book follows a plot that is static. The metaphor works for me because it gives life to a river by giving it a detailed description that tells a story just the same way a book has grammar and words that combine together to form meaning. In the metaphor, a child is ready to the taken away by the imaginations from the story in a book and on the other hand a passenger on a steamboat is taken away by a river on a journey of exploration. What is similar is that the two subjects don’t are taken to an unfamiliar world. This Surname 2 metaphor ...
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