Summary Of The Notorious Jumping Frog

The story that will be analyzed in this essay paper is “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. The main analysis points in this paper will be focusing on the points of view in the story, also how would the story be different if someone else told it. The major themes that were in the story were dishonesty and cheating. In the beginning of the story, a man whose name is not said walks up to another man whose name is Simon and starts talking to him. Since the story uses the letter/word “I” this indicates its written in first person. And when Simon starts telling the story he still uses “I”, but he also uses “you” and other second person words. Since Simon uses words like “you” that means he is speaking in second person, but also first