Life On The Mississippi By Mark Twain

Authors use regional details to make stories come to life. These details pour more depth into the story and help demonstrate to the readers what the characters are picturing. Details are a good way to depict features about the settings. Getting to know where the story takes place is also a key factor into knowing what the readers should expect. Authors use details to make a good story by grabbing the reader’s attention. They normally base their details around the characters, the settings, and the description. Mark Twain and Sarah Jewett made good use of details and gave readers powerful stories that they can divulge in. Mark Twain wrote “Life On the Mississippi”, which gives a vast trove of details about where he used to live, in a small town of Hannibal, Missouri. In this literature he talks about a wide variety of key aspects, but what stands out the most was the town. He takes us through the town describing it as boring and dull. He reminisces about how beautiful the Mississippi river was; it was right next to the town. He also describes the people who lived there, like the notorious town drunk. He dives deeper into the story and enlightens us about a mother pig and her piglets roaming the town,
He executes this by taking us on a slideshow about Jim Smiley’s life. Smiley has a unique personality, a risky one to say the least. He’d bet on his dog because he thought he had a guaranteed chance to win by playing dirty. He once bet on the health of a sickly woman, this detail shows the extremes Smiley was willing to go to. In the end karma hit him hard, he had bet forty dollars on a frog (that he raised) to win, but the guy he went against cheated, and filled the frog with pellets to make it to heavy to jump. Sarah Jewett writes a story not as intense as this one but a really nice one with more details about nature