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- AVENTURES D'HUGKLEBERRY FINN (Les) [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn], Mark Twain
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From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - anthology.
'Wherebouts?' says I. 'Down to Silas Phelps's place, two mile below here. He's a runaway nigger, and they've got him. Was you looking for him?' 'You bet I ain't! I run across him in the woods about an hour or two ago, and he said if I hollered he'd cut my livers out—and told me to lay down and stay where Iwas; and I done it. Been there ever since; afeard to come out.' 'Well,' he says, 'you needn't be afeard no more, becuz they've got him. He run off f'm down South, som'ers.' 'It'...
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HUCKLEBERRY FINN (analyse du personnage)
204 • Hu ckleberry Finn Un soir, dans le cimetière local, Huck et Tom sont témoins d'un meurtre. Le médec in, qui cherchait à déterrer un cada vre pour ses études anatomiques, est assassiné par Joe l'Indien, l'un des hommes payés pour l'accompagner. Joe met l'arme du meurtre dans les mains du second complice, Potter, qui , à moitié ivre au moment de l'aff aire, se laisse convaincre qu'il est effe ctive ment coupable. Potter, jugé, manque d'être pendu; ma...
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Le personnage d'HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Mark Twain est considéré comme l'un des fondateurs de la littérature américaine. Ernest Hemingway disait parexemple, à propos des Aventures de Huckleberry Finn, que « toute la littérature moderne en découle ».En fait, Mark Twain s'est trouvé, de différentes façons, à la charnière de deux mondes.Descendant de pionniers, ayant lui-même connu la vie difficile des émigrants en lutte contre les Indiens, il vitapparaître et se développer la civilisation qui, d'Est en Ouest, couvrit en...
- Finn Mac Cumhail - lengua y litteratura.
- Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Sprache & Litteratur).
- Le personnage de FINN Huckleberry de Mark Twain
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Mark Twain.
father, who keeps him prisoner in an isolated cabin. The boy escapes and, together with a runaway slave, Jim, sails down the Mississippi on a raft. During their trip,Huck and Jim encounter many unusual characters, including two families involved in a senseless feud and a pair of scoundrels who swindle innocent townspeople. Theirexperiences bring about a strong friendship between the boy and the slave, but their adventures end when Jim is captured and held at the farm of Tom Sawyer’s AuntSally. W...
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Mark Twain
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INTRODUCTION
Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), American writer and humorist, whose best work is characterized by broad, often irreverent humor
or biting social satire.
father, who keeps him prisoner in an isolated cabin. The boy escapes and, together with a runaway slave, Jim, sails down the Mississippi on a raft. During their trip,Huck and Jim encounter many unusual characters, including two families involved in a senseless feud and a pair of scoundrels who swindle innocent townspeople. Theirexperiences bring about a strong friendship between the boy and the slave, but their adventures end when Jim is captured and held at the farm of Tom Sawyer’s AuntSally. W...
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Mark Twain - USA History.
father, who keeps him prisoner in an isolated cabin. The boy escapes and, together with a runaway slave, Jim, sails down the Mississippi on a raft. During their trip,Huck and Jim encounter many unusual characters, including two families involved in a senseless feud and a pair of scoundrels who swindle innocent townspeople. Theirexperiences bring about a strong friendship between the boy and the slave, but their adventures end when Jim is captured and held at the farm of Tom Sawyer’s AuntSally. W...
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Finland - country.
Productive forestland is the most valuable natural resource of Finland. Spruce, pine, and silver birch are the principal trees used to manufacture wood and pulp andpaper products. Finland lacks coal and petroleum resources and is a net importer of energy resources. However, Finland does have significant deposits of peat, which is cut from thenumerous peat bogs that cover much of the north. Peat is an important heat source for homes, and it provides about 7 percent of Finland’s electricity needs....
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Commentary The adeventures of Huck Finn
same hundrun is emphasized by the use of the modals « would », « could » and the verbal form « used to ». So, this everyday life is depicted by the narrator as « lovely ». The child describes his habits as sacred ones. The way it is depicted seems mechanical : everything has a time to be done and is done by the time the children are allowing it. For instance, they are eating first, then having a nap, then shaving « soon as it was night ». The actions are ennumerated, which emphasize the idea o...
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James Joyce
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James Joyce
The works of Irish writer James Joyce are
Odysseus’s wife, Penelope. The 18 chapters of Ulysses parallel episodes from the Odyssey, but there are crucial differences between the two books. For instance, most interpretations of the Odyssey credit Penelope with fidelity during her husband’s lengthy absence, while Molly Bloom is unfaithful to her husband. As in Portrait, each chapter in Ulysses has a distinct style that reflects both the exterior and interior lives of the characters and their development as individuals. The fina...
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World War II .
the Nazi-Soviet Pact was signed. In the part published the next day, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed not to go to war against each other. A secret protocol gaveStalin a free hand in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, eastern Poland, and eastern Romania. See also German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact. III MILITARY OPERATIONS In the early morning hours of September 1, 1939, the German armies marched into Poland. On September 3 the British and French surprised Hitler by declaring war onGermany, but they...
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James Joyce.
story every Finn he could find, from Irish lore, English literature, and permutation of sound-alike words, such as “phoenix,” “Phoenician,” “Phineas,” and “finish.” Joyce carried his linguistic experimentation to its furthest point in Finnegans Wake, in part by combining English words with parts of words from various other languages. Joyce’s inventive use of language also shows in the way many words slip and slide in amusing directions. After an allusion to the fable of the ant and thegrasshop...
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US Beats USSR in Hockey.
The two sides once again exchanged goals during the first period. Sergei Makarov briefly gave the Soviets a lead when he beat Craig. The goal outraged many in thecrowd who felt that referee Karl Kaisla of Finland missed a holding violation by a USSR player in front of the net. Controversy also played a role in the Americans'game-tying goal at the end of the period. With a few seconds left on the clock, Ken Morrow unleashed an 80-foot slap shot that ricocheted to center Mark Johnson,who deposited...
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Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Le père de Huck EXTRAITS~~~ ~~~~- Comment nos héros conçoivent la monarchie -Mais enfin, Huck, nos rois à nous sont des coquins fieffés, rien d' aut' ; des coquins fieffés, je te dis! -Bien sûr, c'est ce que je veux dire : les rois c'est tous de la canaille, à ce que j'ai en- tendu raconter. - Pas possib' ? - Tu n'as qu'à lire l'histoire et tu verras. Regarde Henri VIII, le nôtre est un prix de vertu à côté! Et Charles li, et Lo...
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Estonia - country.
protest the expansion of open-pit phosphorite mining in northeastern Estonia. Their success in stopping the expansion prompted further demonstrations as part of thecountry’s independence movement. Since independence Estonia has taken measures to protect the environment. The government has ratified international agreementsto reduce emissions of hazardous wastes and greenhouse gases, as well as to protect biodiversity, wetlands, and endangered species. Estonians cherish thecountryside, and 31 perc...
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Le personnage de SAWYER Tom
HUCKLEBERRY FINN [ Pourquoi il est célèbre Personnage des deux romans épiques et comiques Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer et Les Aventures d'Huckleberry Finn, publiés en 1876 et 1885 par l'humoriste Mark Twain, Huck Finn est un gamin plus ou moins sauvage de l'Ouest américain. Fils d'un ivrogne, libre, sale et heureux, il est en quelque sorte l'équivalent rural de Gavroche ou l'équivalent américain de Kim. Ses escapades le long du M...
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la littérature américaine de1860 à 1945
des "dime novels" romans populaires "à quatre sous" aux ventes vertigineuses, comme ceux de Alger, qui racontent toujours la même histoire : un héros noble qui se hisse tous seul au dessus de sa condition d'origine, récompensé pour sa vertu et généreux dans sa réussite . Le succès de ses ouvrages illustre la conviction des américains que le capitalisme donne à chacun les clefs de son succès, libre à lui d'en profiter ou non . Les ouvrages didactiques de Carnegie ( The Gospel of Wealth par exempl...