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Comparing "The Adventures of Huck Finn" and "The Catcher in the Rye"


The forthcoming of American literature proposes two distinct Realistic
novels portraying characters which are tested with a plethora of adventures. In
this essay, two great American novels are compared: The Adventures of Huck Finn
by Mark Twain and The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger. The Adventures of
Huck Finn is a novel based on the adventures of a boy named Huck Finn, who along
with a slave, Jim, make their way along the Mississippi River during the
Nineteenth Century. The Catcher In The Rye is a novel about a young man called
Holden Caulfield, who travels from Pencey Prep to New York City struggling with
his own neurotic problems. These two novels can be compared using the
Cosmogonic Cycle with both literal and symbolic interpretations.
The Cosmogonic Cycle is a name for a universal and archetypal situation.
There are six parts that make up the cycle: the call to adventure, the
threshold......

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