The Educated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County Summary
Literary Analysis: “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County”
In “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County”, written by Mark Twain during the time of 1867, the narrator of this folk story is requested by a friend of his to call a upon a forthcoming,talkative, balding man whom goes by the name of Simon Wheeler. The narrator is a well educated man and Simon is rather uneducated based on his sentence structure and how he pronunciates words.Twain utilizes diction as a satirical tool to emphasize the stereotypes in America in relation to “easterners” and “westerners”. The cliches of that time were varied depending on where you lived but there were two in which were quite distinct. This humorous folk tale emphasizes that with the
In “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County”, written by Mark Twain during the time of 1867, the narrator of this folk story is requested by a friend of his to call a upon a forthcoming,talkative, balding man whom goes by the name of Simon Wheeler. The narrator is a well educated man and Simon is rather uneducated based on his sentence structure and how he pronunciates words.Twain utilizes diction as a satirical tool to emphasize the stereotypes in America in relation to “easterners” and “westerners”. The cliches of that time were varied depending on where you lived but there were two in which were quite distinct. This humorous folk tale emphasizes that with the