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This 5 page paper discusses three protagonists, Emma from “Emma” by Jane Austen, Asher Lev from “My Name is Asher Lev” by Chaim Potok; and Huckleberry Finn from “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain, and how three literary techniques are used to help the reader understand their growth during the novel. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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they must be interesting enough to hold ones attention. This paper compares and contrasts the protagonists Huck Finn in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; Emma in Emma by Jane Austen;
and Asher Lev in My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok. The character merit comparison by virtue of the fact that they all are (more or less) outcasts or
rebels against their society. This paper will examine the literary elements of point of view, voice and setting in each story and how they help a reader understand the protagonists
journey; it also compares the three with each other. Discussion All three novels are fairly long, so this paper will concentrate on just one aspect of each characters growth; what
might be said to be the main character development. In Huck Finn, that development occurs when Huck discovers that friendship is all-important; for Asher, its his discovery that in order
to be true to himself he has to leave his family; and for Emma, who is probably the most complex of the three, her journey takes her through a series
of reversals and mistaken assumptions to a final match with the man she loves. The journeys of the three (or rather, the main point of the journeys) can be
summarized as follows: Huckleberry Finn and his friend Jim, an escaped slave, start down the Mississippi on a raft; if they can reach the Ohio River, they can get a
steamboat up it to the free states (Twain). One day, they run into slave-catchers, and Huck fights a battle with himself over whether or not to turn Jim over to
them (Twain). Modern audiences who are distressed or angry about this should remember that at the time Twain wrote, blacks had no rights at all, slavery was still accepted in
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