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A 4 page paper which examines the role of the protagonist in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Emma by Jane Austen, and My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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literature unfolds, as the character embarks and travels on their particular journey. In Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Emma by Jane Austen, and My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim
Potok the stories offer the reader the deep and personal development of the protagonist, albeit in different ways. Each author employs various literary elements that help make this journey of
self awareness powerful and memorable. The following essay illustrates how plot development, setting, and conflict establish and define the journey of the protagonists, making the protagonists real and their journeys
equally as real. Protagonists: Twain, Austen, and Potok Plot development In Twains work, which is really about the development of a boy,
the plot development is relatively simple because he is only a boy and the story is ultimately only intended to be an adventure story with perhaps no real meaning or
message. As Twain himself noted, "PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting
to find a plot in it will be shot" (Twain). However the plot essentially revolves around Huck feigning his death, running away to the river where he embarks on a
journey with a runaway slave and ultimately finds his way back to civilization and a home. Offering a very simple and adventurous plot, with no real meaning for the most
part, Twain has developed a young man who is more mature and aware of himself through hardships, exciting adventures, and moral choices.
In Austens story the plot revolves around Emma, a woman who believes herself to be something of a matchmaker in a time when marriage was the best thing a woman
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