Different Yet Similar

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The paper compares and contrasts Ursula Le Guin's characters Ai and Estraven in "The Left Hand of Darkness" with Mark Twain's characters Huck and Jim in "Huckleberry Finn". The paper argues that while both sets of characters seem very different from one another, their similarities and ability to complement and complete one another become apparent as the novels progress.

From the Paper:

"In Ursula Le Guin's science fiction novel The Left Hand of Darkness, the main character, and frequent first-person viewpoint character, is Genly Ai a young, innocent, and seemingly inexperienced envoy, who also happens to be black. Ai has been sent alone, from Earth, to an unfamiliar perpetually cold and snowy planet called Gethen, meaning (appropriately) "Winter". As Le Guin tells us, of this freezing planet, and, by implication, the values of those who live there: "The death-sentence is rare in Karhide. Life on Winter is hard to live and people there generally leave death to nature or to anger, not to law" (p. 41)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness. New York: Ace; Reissue Edition, 1987.
• Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In The Norton Anthology ofAmerican Literature, 1865-1914, Vol. C. (Nina Baym et al., Eds.). New York,Norton, 2003. 220-407.

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