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Research paper on Mark Twain’s Mark Twain’s is a novel about a young boy’ s coming of age in the Missouri of the mid-1800^Òs. It is the story of Huck’s struggle to win freedom for himself and Jim, a Negro slave. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was Mar ....

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.... one that branched in all his writing: a plea for humanity, for the end of caste, and of its cruelties (Allen 260). Twain, whose real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835. During his childhood he lived in Hannibal, Missouri, a Mississippi river port that was to become a large influence on his future writing. It was Twain’s nature to write about where he lived, and his nature to criticize it if he felt it necessary. As far his structure, Kaplan said, In plotting a book his structural sense was weak; intoxicated by a hunch, he seldom saw far ahead, and too many of his stories peter out from the author’ ....