"Mark Twain House The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) and his family from 1874 to 1891. It was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and built in the American High Gothic style. Clemens biographer Justin Kaplan has called it ""part steamboat, part medieval fortress and part cuckoo clock."" Clemens wrote many of his best-known works while living there, including ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"", ""The Prince and the Pauper"", ""Life on the Mississippi"", ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"", ""A Tramp Abroad"", and ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court."" Poor"
"quirky and unstable young man, haunted by what he sees as a destructive and unloving relationship with his parents. He has a habit of disappearing suddenly in order to avoid dealing with real life. ""Ned"": Walker and Nan's father, despite his son's depiction of him as cold and uncaring, in his youth he was a stuttering, shy, and talented architect. Pip/Theo ""Pip"": A proudly naïve TV actor and family friend of the Janeway's. Handsome, and not as dumb as he looks, he is constantly frustrated by others taking their lives so seriously, and can't fathom why people see the need"
"who grow up to be troubled young men. Frazer's childhood in Greenvale, 220 kilometres northwest of Townsville, is populated by budding pugilists, often themselves the victims of casual violence or sexual abuse. More than once there looms a drunken father as awful as Pap in ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"". Growing up godless in a ""deranged, apocalyptic"" cult, Frazer develops a disdain for authority, cemented by his run-ins with the ne'er-do-wells in his policeman father's cells, and also the ""tramp preachers"" who pass through town and who have a tendency to wander into the bathroom as he showers. Already inured"
"Huck returns home in the darkness to find his Pap, a violent drunk, waiting for him, who drags him off to his cabin in the woods. In his drunkenness, Pap swings from tomfoolery to extreme violence as he rails against a government that would take his son (and his son's money) away from him (""Guv'ment""). Pap attempts to kill Huck, hallucinating that he is the Angel of Death, but passes out in an inebriated mess. The next day Pap goes off to trade and Huck takes the opportunity to escape. He kills a pig and scatters the blood and gore"
"is seen when Huck considers sending a letter to Ms. Watson telling her where Jim is but ultimately chooses to rip it up despite the idea in the south that one who tries helping a slave escape will be sent to eternal punishment. Pap Finn is Huck's abusive, drunken father who shows up at the beginning of ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" and forcibly takes his son to live with him. Pap's only method of parenting is physical abuse. Although he seems derisive of education and civilized living, Pap seems to be jealous of Huck and is infuriated that his son"
"Poopdeck Pappy Poopdeck Pappy is a fictional character featured in the ""Popeye"" (""Thimble Theatre"") comic strip and animated cartoon spinoffs. Created by E. C. Segar in 1936, the character is Popeye's father, who is between the ages of 85 and 99. Pappy first appeared in ""Thimble Theatre"" not long after Popeye acquired Eugene the Jeep in 1936. Popeye decided to use the creature's supernatural knowledge to find his father. An expedition was set up to go to Poopdeck's home on Barnacle Island, which included Toar the caveman and Olive Oyl. The ungrateful father answered Popeye's greeting with, ""You look like"
"Weissmuller, does not reflect the original character in the novels, who is gracious and highly sophisticated. Tarzan is the son of a British lord and lady who were marooned on the Atlantic coast of Africa by mutineers. When Tarzan was an infant, his mother died, and his father was killed by Kerchak, leader of the ape tribe by whom Tarzan was adopted. Soon after his parents' death, Tarzan became a feral child, and his tribe of apes are known as the Mangani, Great Apes of a species unknown to science. Kala is his ape mother. Burroughs added stories occurring during"
"whip, claiming that the mechanism was operated by a dog. Revealed later to be abandoned while only 6 months old, the boy does not know his proper name; being the protagonist, he is known only as Lit'l Fellow (P'tit-Bonhomme) for the remainder of the story. The public confronts Thornpipe and stands up for the boy, driving Thornpipe out of town. With no local family able or willing to raise the foundling, he is given to an orphanage known as Ragged School in the neighboring town of Galway. Neither O'Bodkins, the principal of the school, nor his assistants (with the exception"
"alcoholic. Knowing that Pap would only spend the money on alcohol, Huck is successful in preventing Pap from acquiring his fortune; however, Pap kidnaps Huck and leaves town with him. Pap forcibly moves Huck to his isolated cabin in the woods along the Illinois shoreline. Because of Pap's drunken violence and imprisonment of Huck inside the cabin, Huck, during one of his father's absences, elaborately fakes his own death, escapes from the cabin, and sets off downriver. He settles comfortably, on Jackson's Island. Here, Huck reunites with Jim, Miss Watson's slave. Jim has also run away after he overheard Miss"
"He and Slater, another minor character, only appear at the end of the production when they blow up Weston's car for compensation. He is a wicked man, a villain in the story. Weston Tate is the father of the family and an abusive alcoholic. Incapable of driving or holding a job, he is a profoundly unstable man controlled by the alcohol that runs in his system. His violent nature and utter lack of accountability are the crux of many of the family's issues. He is easily taken advantage of and when his debts are not paid, it takes an even"
"Opar (fictional city) Opar is a fictional lost city in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs and later the Khokarsa novels of Philip José Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey and various derivative works in other media. The city first appeared in the second Tarzan novel, ""The Return of Tarzan"" (1913). As envisioned by Burroughs, Opar is a lost colony of Atlantis located deep in the jungles of Africa, in which incredible riches have been stockpiled down through the ages. The city's population exhibits extreme sexual dimorphism caused by a combination of excessive inbreeding, cross-breeding with apes, and selective culling"
"father the ""swellest man I knew"", a man who was able to give a decent reason as to why black birds cooked in a pie could afterwards get out and sing. By 1938, more than one million copies of the book had been printed. Less than two decades later in 1956, the sales of his novel had grown to three million copies in print. Dorothy is a young girl who lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry and her little dog Toto on a farm in the Kansas prairie. One day, Dorothy and Toto are caught up in a"
"Warwick has kidnapped five puppies so he can sacrifice them to the Howlloween Hound, an evil hellhound who can open a portal to ghosts but only if he has the souls of five puppies of the same blood. One of the puppies, Pip, belongs to a young boy named Joseph. As the mob prepares to storm the manor, the hound devours Pip's siblings, but Pip escapes. Warwick chases him and grabs him just as the mob enters. The Warlock manages to escape just as dawn approaches. Thus, when the hound tries to kill Pip he fails and Pip turns to"
"Watson the monkey; Joseph the parrot; Mr and Mrs Wilks the neighbours; Sally Wilks; Mr Wilks’ brother from the Isle of Wight; Mr and Mrs. Pringle; Joe Pringle; Betty Pringle; Mrs. Pearl the cleaner from Marigold Cottages; Mr Mount the baker. The fictional father Captain Cherry is a retired explorer whose name may be a reference to Apsley Cherry-Garrard. The dedication says, ""A book for Mike to remind him of the days when all of us – and Daisy's sister – dashed about, like The Cherrys themselves, all over the place, from the beginning of Kent to the end of"
"tales about Twm from a fellow-walker on the way to Tregaron and later read what was probably Prichard's book. In the tale told by Llewelyn Prichard, Twm is the illegitimate son of Cati Jones following attentions from John Wynn of Gwydir (John ""Wynn"" ap Maredudd); the Welsh forms of the names of his parents became incorporated into his name. He grows up in Tregaron and after a spell working for a farmer, he works for a local landowner. He is trusted to take a large sum of the squire's money to England. The journey is fraught with encounters with highwaymen,"
"sends back Magwitch's pocketbook, Pip feels glad despite Wemmick's advice. In the end, Pip forfeits all that Magwitch intended for him to have. Wemmick owns a house in Walworth which is modelled as a castle, complete with a drawbridge, cannon and moat. Wemmick feels protected from the harsh realities of his profession by his house. As Wemmick tells Pip, ""the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me."" He lives with his father, who is referred to as ""The Aged Parent"", ""The Aged P."", or simply ""The"
"to court her, too. """"Outside the Gates of the City of Jewels""""<br> Jack Pumpkinhead awakes to the sound of an alarm clock, tries to mess with it in denial, then wakes Tip, who grudgingly accepts that Jack calls him ""Papa."" Tip says that he dreamed that he was once the Princess Ozma who ruled over the City of Jewels that they now sit before. He explains to Jack why he can't just go to the city gates and claim that he is Princess Ozma, because he isn't just now, having been enchanted by Mombi. They exit to search for an"
"of the tavern known as Mother Black Cap. The attractions of the neighbouring inns, and of the Assembly Rooms at Kentish Town, now proved too strong for him, and he returned to all his bad habits. A long illness of his wife, following her confinement and death of the child, further weakened the influence of home, and he neglected and ultimately left his wife, though he seems to have made her an allowance as long as he lived. When he finally separated from her it is not easy to determine, and his course afterwards was so erratic that it is"
"with Finnegan Hob. Also known as the Prince of Midnight or the ""Nightmare Man"", Christopher Carrion is the chief villain of the first two books; but is later eclipsed in this by his grandmother, Thant Yeyla Carrion, hitherto his guardian. The latter once sewed his lips shut for saying the word ""love"", leaving distinctive scars. His nightmares take physical shape as serpentine creatures residing in a fishbowl-like tank surrounding his neck and the lower half of his face. Tubes attached to his skull allow the nightmares free passage from his mind to the bluish fluid which fills this tank. These"
"Popetown Popetown is a British adult animated sitcom, billed by its producers as """"Father Ted"" meets ""South Park"""". The series was internationally controversial, and was not screened by the UK channel which commissioned it, BBC Three. The series follows the doodles and scribblings of a student at school during a lesson. His drawings depict the life of Father Nicholas, who lives in a Vatican City parody referred to as ""Popetown"". He is charged with being the handler for the Pope (who is always referred to by his title, and never given any name) who is a complete nincompoop with the"
"two into a bag, which he then throws into the river. Although Puck is saved, the mother drowns trying to help him. She encounters a hummingbird, who are known to accompany the spirits of the dead to the other side. Puck later wanders off and ends up lost. The book also introduces Grandmother Moccasin, who in this story is portrayed as a water moccasin lamia. When her daughter Night Song changes form to marry Hawk Man, Grandmother feels betrayed and tricks her daughter into changing back into a serpent, since magical creatures who return to their original forms are stuck"
"money as a result of their earlier adventures (detailed in ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer""). Huck explains how he is placed under the guardianship of the Widow Douglas, who, together with her stringent sister, Miss Watson, are attempting to ""sivilize"" him and teach him religion. Finding civilized life confining, his spirits are raised somewhat when Tom Sawyer helps him to escape one night past Miss Watson's slave Jim, to meet up with Tom's gang of self-proclaimed ""robbers."" Just as the gang's activities begin to bore Huck, he is suddenly interrupted by the reappearance of his shiftless father, ""Pap"", an abusive"
"river cruisers, surrounded by funfair rides and show booths, Father Thames and Momma Thames (who took vacant possession of the lower reaches surrendered after the Great Stink killed off the resident deities, populating the capital's tributaries with her 'daughters') arrive with their respective entourages, principally Ash and Oxley for Father Thames; Lady Ty, sisters Olympia, Chelsea and Beverley Brook (Peter's part-time river-goddess girlfriend) and youngest of Momma Thames' daughters Neckinger (AKA Nicky), and her babysitter-cum-minder Oberon. Also in attendance, seemingly uninvited, in no particular capacity, is Zachery Palmer, one-time murder suspect, gofer, go-between, half-goblin (and since Lesley’s injury, part-time love-interest)."
"later stories, Betty's father is shown working as a druggist and is called Hal Cooper. Although he has only a middle-class income, he is a good provider for his family. He is also a highly respected citizen, very civic-minded, and serves on the town council. He is a somewhat rotund fellow and, for a time, his hair was white and thinning. By the 1990s, he was given light brown hair with early signs of baldness. In some early stories he was seen smoking a pipe, but it has been deleted where such stories have been reprinted. He once believed in"
"would try to amount to more, and live in better conditions than he did. Despite this, early in the novel Huck uses his father's method of ""borrowing"" though he later feels sorry and stops. The character of Huck Finn is based on Tom Blankenship, the real-life son of a sawmill laborer and sometime drunkard named Woodson Blankenship, who lived in a ""ramshackle"" house near the Mississippi River behind the house where the author grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. Twain mentions his childhood friend Tom Blankenship as the inspiration for creating Huckleberry Finn in his autobiography: ""In Huckleberry Finn I have"
"when the town was built it was named after Tex's feathers and the waterfall. The characters of the town are Grandpa Twink, who does little but rest in a chair; his grandson Little Jake, the only child in town; Ma Jones, who runs the town store; Doc Haggerty; Slim Jim, the bartender of the Denison saloon; Marvin Jackson, the bank manager; and Dan Morse, the telegraphist. Other characters appeared from time to time for only one episode, often just visiting town. The villains included Pedro, who was introduced in the first show and Fernando, who first appeared in the second"
"Kala (Tarzan) Kala is a fictional ape character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's original Tarzan novel, ""Tarzan of the Apes"", and in movies and other media based on it. She is the adoptive mother of Tarzan. In the novel, Kala is a female in a band of ""Mangani"", a fictional species of Great Ape intermediate between real life chimpanzees and gorillas. She saves the infant Tarzan from the murderous fury of Kerchak, the mad leader of the ape band, after the latter kills Tarzan's human father. Kala goes on to rear the human baby as her own while protecting him against"
"outside the town's abandoned plastics factory. That evening, Matthew is alerted to a figure out in his yard, whom he believes to be his father, but is really a vampire-like creature taking the form of his father. The creature takes Matthew away in the night. Meanwhile, Maggie Quedentock is returning home late from an affair with her husband's friend when she strikes a pale, childlike creature with her car. Police arrive, to include Stillwater Police Sergeant Ben Journell, who find no trace of anyone having be struck by Maggie's car. In the morning, Matthew's teenage sister Brandy awakes to find"
"Paws. The pair continue their journey until they reach the town of Dayville. Logan faintly remembers that his biological father lives in the town and decides to find his father and confront him. While Logan is stealing food from a local shop, Jack is found by three men who, fearing that she may be infected, beat her. Logan is arrested and manages to find his father's address at the police station before escaping. He returns to find Jack nearly dead and carries her, attempting to find his father's house, until he faints from exhaustion. He awakens in the house of"
"drinker. He is the father of Dog Logan, but his exact date of birth is unknown. Thomas is abusive towards Dog, often beating him severely and introduces the boy to alcohol. Logan has a violent temper, a mean disposition, flies into uncontrollable rage, and is envious of the Howletts and their great fortune. After being fired from his position and kicked off the estate for failing to control his son, Thomas returns to the house in the middle of the night, armed, and with his son Dog. He sneaks into the bedroom John and Elizabeth Howlett share and tries to"
"in Cookham in Berkshire, where Grahame wrote the books is also thought to have been an influence. Other suggestions include Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe. The first story arc of the ""Batman and Robin"" comic book by Grant Morrison features a villainous character with the name and appearance of Mr. Toad. After Batman and Robin interrogate Toad, he's revealed to be in cahoots with Pyg. This same character also appears in the animated series ""Beware the Batman"". In Jasper Fforde's ""Thursday Next"" series, Miss Havisham and Mr. Toad engage in an ongoing series of car races. Mr. Toad appears briefly"
"brings an orphaned girl named Rose up from the town to be his companion. The two children also often play with Dog Logan, son of the Howletts' cruel groundskeeper, Thomas Logan (who looks a lot like the fully-grown Wolverine). Readers are led to believe that Dog was the young Wolverine, but this is later revealed to be not the case. The children's friendship is spoiled by the tension between the boys' fathers centering on James' mother, Elizabeth, who went mad after her first son, John, died under mysterious circumstances years earlier. Rose later stumbles upon Elizabeth changing by accident, and"
"Daddy Warbucks Lieutenant General Sir Oliver ""Daddy"" Warbucks is a fictional character from the comic strip ""Little Orphan Annie"". He made his first appearance in the Daily News in the ""Annie"" strip on September 27, 1924. In the series he is said to be around 52 years of age. Warbucks was born about 1894, near the small town of Supine. (In Thomas Meehan's 1980 novelisation of his 1977 musical, he was born and brought up in Hell's Kitchen New York and is 52 years old as of 1933, thus giving him a birthdate of 1881. In the 1982 film, he"