How Did Mark Twain Influence His Work

Mark Twain’s life influenced his work because he incorporated his mother, sister, brother, and friends as a base for his writing. He has written many well-known American classics such as those of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He was born November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He was born to John Clemons and Jane Clemons. Twain grew up on the MS River, so he had many memories growing up as a child. These included swimming, fishing, playing pirates, and pulling a few pranks every now and then. Unfortunately, his family did not belong to much wealth. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written in February 1885. One critic states that “the book underscores the extent to which individual and collective
morality can be contradictory” (www.gilderlehrman.org). Huckleberry Finn is considered by many to be Mark Twain's finest creation. In this novel the main character, Huck, does not have the creative energy Tom possesses. Huck is portrayed as a straightforward kid with very little instruction. One measure of his character is an inclination to duplicity, which appears to be natural, a characteristic shared by other wild things and relating him to nature—contrary to Tom's custom grounded, book-educated, inventive misdirections. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which is a story of some of Twain’s childhood experiences, can be seen as the narrative of a mission for opportunity and an escape from what society requires in return for progress. This correlates to how Twain was trying to escape the troubles at his household. Participated in flight by Jim, who looks for opportunity from subjugation, Huck sees that the Mississippi is serene yet that the world along its shores is brimming with fraud, including his own, and by brutality and murder. At the point when the pontoon on which he and Jim are drifting down the waterway is attacked by two hoodlums, Huck initially turns into their collaborator in cheats yet is at long last the operator of their presentation. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck does things Mark Twain did when he was his younger self:
We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed — only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all — that night, nor the next, nor the next. (www.cliffnotes.com)
These activities in this excerpt show how his childhood leisures inspired the adventures that his characters go through in his writings.

The friends and family of Twain played various roles in his writings.
For instance, in the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain’s very own mother, Jane, played the role of Aunt Polly. The character Tom Sawyer is a representation of Twain himself. He created Cousin Mary and Cousin Sid from his real life brother and sister, Pamela and Henry. We see Lauren Hawkins, whom which was his next door neighbor from when he was a child, as Becky Thatcher. One of Twain’s good friends, John Briggs, portrayed the role of Joe Harper.
Different places he encountered during his lifetime influenced Twain’s settings for his many works. As Mark Twain, he created Hannibal as St. Petersburg in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The topographical highlights are genuine. The Mississippi River, its islands, and Cardiff Hill are a few places that Twain uses as his settings. The town had, however, 700 or so individuals when the family touched base in 1839. The population later developed into more than 2,500 when he moved away in 1853. Tom Sawyers home in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is based on the same home Twain lived
in.
Events from when Twain was a young boy also inspired some of the adventures his characters went on.
Twain, in his younger age, once had to white wash a fence for his father at his home. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, he depicted his friend Jim painting his fence, similar to his childhood experience. When he was younger, Twain did not have anyone to paint his fence for him, unlike Tom Sawyer did.
Another one of his books, Life on the Mississippi, is a memoir about his life on the Mississippi River as he was training to become a steamboat pilot. Twain receives his training from an older man named Mr. Bixby. The price of his training was set at $500 in order to be taught all the knowledge Mr. Bixby possessed about the steamboat business. The information he writes in this memoir connects to how his life influenced his work. Mark Twain was known to be a realist author, but when his book, The Mysterious Stranger, was released, critics were surprised. The book featured supernatural characters, including Satan. This book was created based on a very dark and lonely stage he went through during his lifetime. It was very dark and
lonlisome.

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