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...opening chapters Huck’s ignorance humorously undermines accepted social conventions. When a religious widow, after attempting to convince Huck of the benefits of Christianity, asserts that Tom Sawyer won’t be going to Heaven, Huck quips that he is glad he won’t go to Heaven “because I wanted [Tom Sawyer] and me to be together.” Twain extends Huck’s naiveté even further when Huck fails to understand that Tom’s fantasy games are not real. In one scene Huck believes that...
South Dakota State junior Jesse Sawyer batted in the Jackrabbits’ tying run in the top of the eighth, as well as the base-clearing three-run triple to end the game after ten grueling innings of play...
...mentors is my former teacher, Robert Coles. There’s a huge poster in my office of Sawyer on “Lost” reading a Walker Percy novel, which I read in Coles' class, "Moral and Social Inquiry." The themes of that class permeated deeply into my writer’s brain. I took physics, and lo and behold, there’s a lot of physics in “Lost.” I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it’s been a chance...
BARACK OBAMA, vowing in a Jan. 25 interview with Diane Sawyer to continue to press for health care reform...
...Mike Sawyer lives in Key West...