Samuel Clemens AKA Mark Twain - 1259 Words

Samuel Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain, was one of the most prestigious authors of the 19th century. Growing up he’d always spend time with his uncle’s slaves. The slaves would always tell stories and Twain could not get enough of these tales. At the age of eleven, Twain got a job as a Printer’s Apprentice and got the opportunity to increase awareness of what was happening around the world. When he turned 18 he headed out east to work with several different newspapers. He got bored of this job quickly and after a few years he found himself working for a riverboat on the Mississippi river. Due to the Civil War this job was shut down. In search of a new job he volunteered to join a Confederate group called the Marion Rangers. He hated this so he quit two weeks later. Being jobless and desperate he traveled west to look for new work. After quite a few odd jobs and â€Å"get rich quick† schemes, including his failed try during the gold rush, Twain fin ally found gold of his own when his first short story â€Å"Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog† was published. This story was the perfect example of regionalism, much like all his work. When he used regionalism he made you feel as if you were in Missouri by the way he wrote it and the slang he used. This regionalist style of literature would show many authors in the 2nd part of the 19th century how to write in a regional style of literature. All Twain’s years of perfecting regionalism also gave him the ability to write in other forms ofShow MoreRelatedThe Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain1051 Words   |  5 PagesOther places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.† The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was written before The Civil War, by Mark Twain (AKA) Samuel Clemens, was written in Hartford Connecticut, and Elmira New York in 1876 to 1883. Mark Twain’s writings often show life lessons being told through characters and are very involved with society and the effects that is has on certain people, like most other novels it shows morals andRead MoreThe Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain1542 Words   |  7 Pages Over the last 130 years â€Å"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn† has been called everything from a piece of trash to a national treasure. Mark Twain, whose real name is Samuel Clemens wrote â€Å"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.† Only one month after it was published, librarians in Concord, Massachusetts had it banned. â€Å"He has had his problems with librarians from the start when, in 1885, â€Å"those moral-ice-bergs,† the Library Committee of Concord−symbolic seat of freedom−pronounced the book rough, coarseRead MoreRomanticism and Realism: Examples of Mark Twain and Herman Melville Novels1398 Words   |  6 Pagesromanticism is a way to express your emotions in a deeper way, but writing through realism is a way to express your true feelings about how the world is. In Herman Melville’s Moby Dick he uses romanticism to express his point. In The War Prayer by Mark Twain, the speaker talks about the real aspects of war. Romanticism first came about in the 18th century and it was mostly used for art and literature. The actual word â€Å"romanticism† was created in Britain in the 1840s. People like Victor Hugo, WilliamRead MoreThe Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain894 Words   |  4 Pagesseeing life as it was meant to be.† This idea from Elisabeth Kubler-Ross sheds a little light on what maturity truly is and what is happening throughout the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). The story begins with the main character Huckleberry Finn, AKA Huck, a 13 year old boy, with an abusive dad. Huck has acquired a large sum of money which his father wants. To escape his greedy father, he goes to the river and starts to see the world around him and