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A 7 page paper examining Twain's evocation of morals in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The paper concludes that Twain wrote books not only for entertainment, but to express his particular views on morality as well. Bibliography lists nine sources.
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of twelve, and he worked at a number of jobs including printer and Mississippi riverboat pilot. But his natural flair for words led him into a career as first a
journalist, then a novelist (Ousby, 946). Twains early works were witty, satirical, and light-hearted, giving no indication of the profound novelist he was to become. Later in life, however, he
entered a more sober phase where he used his comedic gifts to impart serious themes. His genius derived from the fact that he never forgot his humble beginnings, and always
used them to underscore the greatness of the American spirit. Always honest, never preachy or sentimental, Twains novels are full of moral courage in a venue in which the reader
would least expect to find it, and this is what makes their message so effective. On the surface, the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twains first full-length, popular work of fiction,
would seem to be an innocent cluster of escapades perpetrated by two young boys. But John K. Roth points out that "Tom and Huck represent the contending desires in life:
a strong desire for the security and status of material success, on one hand, set against the deeply ingrained desire for freedom from conventional and moral restraints on the other"
(Roth, 682). As in its sequel, Huckleberry Finn, the boys frequently have more innate wisdom in their ingenuousness than the adults around them. Roth sees in several of the adult
characters, particularly Aunt Polly, a base of security and love that Tom knows he can always return to, and for this reason he will never get too far away: in
his words, "Aunt Polly is the perfect adult foil for a perfect boyhood [because] she provide[s] the emotional security that comes from being loved in ones place" (Roth, 684). Roth
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