Mark Twain's Career-Shaping Childhood Experience

Mark Twain once said, “ If I’d a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn’t a tackled it ain’t agoing to no more.”(Howard 1) Twain is saying that no matter what the challenge is into writing a good book, you shouldn’t just give up because you think you’re going to fail, you’ll succeed no matter what. Twain’s Career-Shaping Childhood Experience, and how he became a famous novelist, and his lasting legacy in the world of Literature, made him the icon he is known as in today’s world.
In other words, his early life was harsh and was mostly spent in Hannibal, near the bank of the Mississippi. He was chilled by violence and bloodshed. His friend wrote the Tom Sawyer days may be said to have begun. Twain’s biography said The town and its
outskirts offered a variety of opportunities for boys to entertain themselves( Todd Ed. 12). Mark Twain wrote a biographer of what he did, when he was growing up. When he stayed in Hannibal there was episodes of violence like, Indian massacres, hangings, and even murders. That was the daily conversations in his home. Twain even witnessed a defenseless slave get murdered by a ruthless slave master. When Twain was twelve, his father died of pneumonia, and his family was in a bad position. He went and got a job as a printer in Hannibal. He was in a newspaper business for a long time. He wanted to try journalism, so at age 18 he became a journeyman printer at age 18. Twain was able to find a job in any city. He began to send letters to his home so they could be published. He experimented with many literary characters. He began to gain such popularity in his letters from people in Hannibal and elsewhere. As a result Twain’s letters started gaining popularity all around and some of them even got published. In 1861 when he was in Nevada, he minded for timber and silver. He finally settled down to newspaper work in Virginia. Until he got redheaded and it brought him into some conflict with some authorities. He escaped to California and adopted the name Mark Twain. He was in San Francisco and came under influence of Bret Harte. In 1873 Twain wrote a famous novel called The Gilded Age. Anything he wrote after this would sell quick because he was becoming so famous. While he did a lot of steamboating experiences he wrote Life on the Mississippi. It was about how beautiful and how glamorous it was on the Mississippi. Anything he remembered from his boyhood memories he wrote it and it was called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It's a narrative of innocent boyhood play that discovers evil such as Tom and Huck, as they witnessed a murder by a man named Joe.
Townspeople hid the murder in the cave, they tried to close the entrance only to keep adventure boys like Tom out of some trouble.
Twain’s finest creation is Huckleberry Finn. One of the measures of his character is a genius. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a loosely bond series. Adventures can be viewed as just a simple story for an adventure for freedom and break from a crowd which requires a replacement for success. When Twain wrote the Tom Sawyer he wasn’t expecting a young audience to be reading the novel. When he returned to the United States in 1900, Twain rose to extreme heights of popularity. His improvement favored on paying every single creditor that made him something like a hero. He was widely needed as a speaker. His writings grew enormous, especially after his wife passed away in 1905. The writing The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, had a clear crime in a small typical american town. In 1906, Twain began giving his autobiography to Albert B. Paine, which was his proof reader. Portions of his writings were published in journals later in that year. . Although his writings were famous back in the 1800’s, his writing are still being read today and people are acting like him while using his type of
humor.
In 2010, Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (1909), is a comic that Twain had mess with over for years. With the income he made from his autobiographies, he built himself a big enough house in Redding, Connecticut. He named his house Stormfield. After he made a few trips to Bermuda, he had a health problem, and then he died on April 21, 1910. Twain was working on several drafts of his final book. Most of Twain’s books have been translated into most of Europe's languages. Twain was also the best to express, or even expose the spirit of the American people. That a tv station made a documentary on Huckleberry Finn. In addition Twain is equally important as any other writer because he used his childhood experience to use in his novels and used his humor to write his book. Even after 122 years since he published Tom Sawyer his popularity is still growing fast said a professor at University of Texas. Even at Colleges people are still reading Twain’s stories and are enjoying them At the University of California scholars are still finding unpublished writings. In addition that’s what makes him what he is today as one of the greatest writers of all time. Mark Twain once said “ Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living, the world owes you nothing, it was here first.”(google) Twain lived a really harsh live and fought through it and wrote about his childhood live and started to gain popularity. It made him start writing more novels and he started to put humor into his stories. Two of his greatest were the Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the other one is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Even after he died he was still so popular. Now today he is considered one of the greatest of all time.