Compare/Contrast Holden Caulfield and Huck Finn

Despite its relative youth, American Literature has transformed through several different periods, each with distinct identities and purposes. Drawing upon these works, use the following prompt as a foundation to write a 1,000 to 1,500 word essay about the topic.

Please write your paper in the MLA format. As part of your research, you may refer to the course material for supporting evidence, but you must also use at least four credible, outside sources and cite them using MLA format as well. Please include a mix of both primary and secondary sources, with at least one source from a scholarly peer-reviewed journal. If you use any Study.com lessons as sources, please also cite them in MLA (including the lesson title and instructor’s name).

Primary sources are first-hand accounts such as interviews, advertisements, speeches, company documents, statements, and press releases published by the company in question.

Secondary sources come from peer-reviewed scholarly journals, such as the Journal of Management. You may use like JSTOR, Google Scholar, and Social Science Research Network to find articles from these journals. Secondary sources may also come from reputable websites with .gov, .edu, or .org in the domain. (Wikipedia is not a reputable source, though the sources listed in Wikipedia articles may be acceptable.) < *****please use information from these specific sources mentioned here. The domain and the journal recommendations ************

Several of the works in this course include characters struggling to either live by a set of standards created for them by society or by their own internal guidelines. Choose two characters from the works on the mandatory reading list for this course (they must come from different works). Compare and contrast these characters, addressing issues of race, gender, and class as applicable. Explore how these characters embody what it means to be an American.

Please make sure to support your explanation with examples from the text (catcher in the rye and the adventures of Huckleberry Finn). These need to be cited as well but don’t count as one of the four sources.

*******Please compare and contrast Huck Finn From the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger*********

****Compare them based on their class (social-economic status, their personal backgrounds, relationships with their families, and their personal goals/tragedies) and then talk about how each character represents what it means to be an American (in regards to the time that the book/setting takes place and overall)*****

**12 point font, double spaced*

When you are done writing your essays, we suggest taking some time to proofread, check for errors, and add some final touches. We also suggest that you use online plagiarism checkers such as to make sure that your essay is not too similar to any existing materials. Plagiarized submissions will NOT be graded.

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