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In four pages this paper examines how the protagonists in these respective novels by Jane Austen, Mark Twain, and Chaim Potok embark upon the journeys that ultimately lead to their self-awareness. Also considered is how the literary elements of the journey motif, characterization of the protagonists as outsiders, and coming of age theme affect the reader’s perceptions of each protagonist’s growth. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Chaim Potoks My Name is Asher Lev (1972). Emma is a Romantic novel about a young social snob named Emma Woodhouse;
Huckleberry Finn details the adventures of a young orphaned boy and a runaway slave named Jim; and My Name is Asher Lev describes a Hasidic or orthodox Jewish boys desire
to become an artist. However, these novels chronicle the journeys their protagonists undertake to achieve self-awareness. The readers perceptions of each protagonists growth are affected by the authors
employment of such literary elements as the journey motif, characterization of the protagonists as outsiders, and theme of coming of age. Emma Woodhouse
was a young woman who believed her rightful place was atop the nineteenth-century English social ladder. Despite her own failure to find true love for herself, she fancied herself
as a matchmaker for others, including the impoverished Harriet Smith, who she convinced Robert Martin would be an inadequate mach for her since he was beneath her class, "a completely
gross, vulgar farmer," according to Emma (Austen, 1998, p. 29). Her friend George Knightley warned Emma that her social prejudices were clouding her better judgment, but she was initially
dismissive. Emma prefers living through others instead of living for herself, and her social snobbery is yet another example of her arrested emotional development. When her education and
emotional growth are complete, she is ready to marry her teacher, George Knightley, and enjoy a marital partnership of equals. Hucks personality is initially defined by his idol worship of
his friend Tom Sawyer, believing this will make him "respectable" (Twain, 1998, p. 29). When first introduced, he delights in defying social convention at every turn, focused more on
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