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    Tommy Sha Mr. Tavares English 2 L1 15 September 2012 The Adventures of Mark Twain History. Most people would want to be remembered throughout history; they want to make a name for themselves. Well Mark Twain certainly made a “name” for himself. Seriously‚ Mark Twain was only a pen name‚ but his real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Mark Twain was not always a writer. Before he found his calling‚ he was a typesetter‚ contributed articles to newspapers; riverboat pilot‚ gold miner‚ and then

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    In the biography Mark Twain: The Divided Mind of America’s Best-Loved Writer by David W. Levy it was made clear that Mark Twain was very involved with all the society changes in his time period. Many of his novels have a theme circulating around the different changes and problems in society including slavery and racism. Mark Twain has been through the years preceding the Civil War‚ the Gilded Age and industrialization‚ this book explores his attitude and actions during the time period. This book

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    (Worth 7 points) Characteristics of the story that link it with the tall-tale tradition are: skill of the yarn-spinner‚ extra-ordinary characters‚ and exaggeration talking animals‚ complex plot‚ and uncomplicated story-teller allusion to historical events and superhuman characters colorful language‚ straitforward narration‚ and characters capable of human emotion Points earned on this question: 7 Question 4 (Worth 7 points) Mark Twain was famous for all of the following except:

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    http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/country/America/American_poets.html | | | | | | AMERICA Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens‚ one of the major authors of American fiction. Twain is also considered the greatest humorist in American literature. Twain’s varied works include novels‚ travel narratives‚ short stories‚ sketches‚ and essays. His writings about the Mississippi River‚ such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚ Life on the Mississippi‚

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    popularity and fame of Mark Twain Place: United States Time: 1835-present Event summary: Whether it’s Superman for Clark Kent‚ or Jackie Chan for Chan Kong-Sang‚ Americans have always had a fascination for pseudonyms. However‚ there is one alias that supersedes all others and continues to influence readers around the world even a century later. Born Samuel L. Clemens in 1835‚ Mark Twain is widely considered the first truly American author. Even more fascinating that the fact that Twain “published more

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    Christened as Samuel Langhorne Clemens‚ Mark Twain was born on November 30‚ 1835 in the small river town of Florida‚ Missouri‚ just 200 miles from Indian Territory. The sixth child of John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton‚ Twain lived in Florida‚ Missouri until the age of four‚ at which time his family relocated to Hannibal in hopes of improving their living situation. By lineage‚ Twain was a Southerner‚ as both his parents’ families hailed from Virginia. The slaveholding community of Hannibal

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    Everyone has ideas and customs that they believe are their own. But Mark Twain has once stated‚ “We are creatures of outside influences – we originate nothing from within. Whenever we take a new line of thought and drift into a new line of belief and action‚ the impulse is always suggested from the outside.” Although people may think that they created their own thought and ideas‚ they have not. Something in the outside world caused them to think about those thoughts‚ or to come up with those ideas

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    The Short Stories of Mark Twain Mark Twain has composed a myriad of short stories over a long period of time. Twain writes with the passion to charm and amuse the reader. Every single sentence he writes makes one want to keep reading on to see what happens next. His stories also offer a comment on human nature and Twain often questions conventional wisdom. Just because someone’s life did not attach to with what many people see normal‚ Twain seems to be asking if that makes them lucky when they

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    well known as "Mark Twain" was born on November 30‚ 1895 in Florida‚ Missouri. He was the sixth of seventh children of John and Jane Clemons. The family later moved to a small town Hannibal‚ Missouri where his father died of pneumania which prompted him to leave school and become a printers apprentice. He recieved work from his brother Orions newspaper Hannibal Western Union as a printer and editorial assistant which is where he found his passion for writing. He published his first story Gallent Fireman

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    rest of us. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Throughout his life Mark Twain continued to produce masterpiece writing leaving no good example un-battered. A man who gets his dream job‚ and is despised by the whole town of just dreamers. A person who’s convictions are stronger than his flesh. And a seemingly harmless man‚ who tells the story as it should be told and comes under the utter annoyance of the narrator. Imperfect characterization played

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