Mark Twain

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Some people believe this book to be racist. I don't believe it to be racist, even though I am black. I believe this book is simply using the dialogue that was used at the time that it was written. It wasn't Mark Twain's fault that America was the way that it was when he wrote the book. Answer 2: I'm not black. I think the book is controversial because it is not racist. The slaves and other non-white characters are shown as being just people. Huck and Jim's quest to find Jim's family that had been sold "down the River" stabs your heart, not because he's black but because he is a father and a husband. The concern about language and "N-words" are smokescreen reasons for banning a book that promotes humanity.

Mark Twain attended the University of Missouri, located in Columbia, Missouri. He studied there briefly before leaving to pursue other ventures.

Mark Twain did not ride with the funeral party after Henry Huttleston Rogers' death because he already paid his respects privately and did not want to attract attention to himself by being part of the public display of mourning. Additionally, Mark Twain preferred solitude and distancing himself from public ceremonies.

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He has a Doctor of Ministry degree and is a PhD candidate in Organizational Leadership at Regent University. He has posted hundreds of sermons and bible studies online at the church website conyerscog.org

He was born in Oklahoma (Oct. 31, 1960) but grew up with his mother, sister and grandmother in Doddridge County, West Virginia.

He is married to Korean born Sun Hyoung (Chi) Hardgrove and Dr. Hardgrove is very vocal in his passion to combat racial division in America. His church is very racially diverse.

It is reminiscent of the Buddha's words "You only lose that which you cling to". In the end, the man got the opposite of what he asked for. Hence the line: "Pleasure, Love, Fame, Riches: they are but temporary disguises for lasting realities - Pain, Grief, Shame, Poverty". It teaches us that whatever we rely on for satisfaction in life is bound to let us down in the end, and that it is better not to rely on anything. My theory is that, had the man chosen death, he would have ultimately received life, for it is only when we die to our pleasures that we are free to see them as they truly are: fleeting distractions on the empty plain of life. It is only when you know and accept this truth that you are able to transcend it. Or something like that....

Jim made this statement in Chapter 16 of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.

There are many ways but here is a guideline I should say

it's written to assure yourself if your on the right track.

1. What is your opinion on the dialect in the story?

2. What is your opinion on the way he incorporated the dialect with the novel?

3. What is your opinion on the language? Is it easy to understand?

4. In your opinion where is the use of different dialect used the most?

5. In your opinion The story overall, the emotion/ feeling. (ex. flowery,sappy, drama)

6. What is your opinion on Twain's talent?

side note: There are also other topics to discuss and incorporate Twain's talents in the novel. Irony etc.

Here are some quotes that I wanted to willingly share to everyone on how genius Twain is in this novel.

"By and by he rolled out and jumped up to his feet looking wild, and he see me and went for me. He chased me round and round the place with a clasp knife, calling me the Angel of death, and saying he would kill me, and then I couldn't come for him no more. I begged, and told him I was only Huck; but he laughed such a screechy laugh, an roared and cussed, and kept on chasing me up."

"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."

"Who told you you might meddle with such hifalut'n foolishness, hey?"

"They tackled missionarying, and mesmerizing, and doctoring, and telling fortunes, and a little of everything; but they couldn't seem to have no luck. So at last they got just about dead broke, and laid around the raft as she floated along, thinking and thinking, and never saying nothing, by the half a day at a time, and dreadful blue and desperate."

"We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed-only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all-that night, nor the next, nor the next."

"These liars warn't no kings nor dukes, at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds."

"Jim had plenty of corncob pipes and tobacco; so we had a right down good sociable time, there we crawled out through the hole, and so home to bed, with hands that looked like the'd been cawed. Tom was in high spirits. He said it was the best fun he ever had in his life."

"But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before."

"Well, if ever I struck anything like it, I'm a -. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race."

"I thought it all out, and reckoned I would belong to the widow if he wanted me, though I couldn't make out how he was a-going to be any better off then than what he was before, seeing I was so ignorant, and so kind of low-down and ornery."

Whoever wrote this guideline is on the right track but i would add that their is a heavy use of sarcasm, and dialect [not a flowery sounding speech liked stated above but, the characters talked like people]

Mark Twain was the pen name used by Samuel Clemens, so both names refer to the same person. The book attributing the authorship to Samuel Clemens is simply using his real name instead of his pen name.

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Yes, Mark Twain did say that the Comstock Lode in Nevada was the "richest place on Earth" due to its abundant silver deposits. Twain worked as a reporter in the area during the mining boom and witnessed the wealth generated by the mines firsthand.

Tom Sawyer is the protagonist and title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), and Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896). Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, Huck and Tom Among the Indians, Schoolhouse Hill, and Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy. While all three uncompleted works were posthumously published, only Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy boasts a complete plot, as Twain abandoned the other two works after finishing only a few chapters. The fictional character's name may have derived from a real-life Tom Sawyer with whom Twain was acquainted in San Francisco, California, while Twain was employed as a reporter at the San Francisco Call. [1] The character himself is an amalgam of three boys Twain knew while growing up.[2] The name Sawyer is derived from the Mississippi River pilot's term for a "tree in the bed of the river with its branches reaching the surface and moving up and down with the current". Clemens was a river pilot at one time, and many of the adventures of his character, Tom Sawyer, are connected with the Mississippi River, and partly derive from this experience. Most adventures in the book really occurred, with one or two Clements' own. The rest were experiences of boys who were schoolmates. < datas from wikipedia >

When Shelley said "We are all Greeks," he is expressing his buy-in to the then current belief that European culture could trace its roots back to the Greek ideals and customs. This would include everything: architecture, education, medicine, our basic myths and memes, government. medicine, etc. Whether the Greeks were all that good is questionable, but in the 19th century there was a push to put a traditional spin on everything and linking "modern" European culture back to the misty dawn of civilization was seen as good thing.

lets see, well if you go sell crack on third street for about three years you will have enough money. so about &999,999,999 because the paper he used had hints of silver and the ink was pure gold. also this is one of the most important pieces of literature in history there was only 5 copies ever made.

"The Prince and the Pauper" teaches lessons about empathy, the importance of walking in someone else's shoes, and the idea that true worth lies in character rather than social status. It also conveys messages about the power of friendship and the impact of honesty and integrity.

Let's see his wife died, his kids died, he lost all his money in bad investments, he couldn't keep his home. Golly, that could sour you a bit.

Then again he was a curmudgeon and a student of humanity and could see the stupidity and cruelty of people to other people based on religion, politics, ethnicity and greed. Slavery, sickness and death with a stiff dose of superstition were a daily observation. Again a clue.

He did live through the American Civil war with years of brothers killing brothers for no good reason and the saw the problems developing in Europe that would lead to the First World War.

All in all "Pessimism" doesn't half cover it.

Samuel Clemens was his real name. Mark Twain is a pseudonym.

According to an article at the US Mint, these coins are 90% gold and 10%alloy The American Arts Gold Medallions (technically they are medallions, not coins, although they were minted by the US mint) was a 10 coin set issued from 1980 to 1984. Each year consisted of two coins, a 1 ounce coin and a 1/2 ounce coin, each coin honoring a different American Artist (the term "artist" is used loosly; one of the coins honored Frank Lloyd Wright, another honored Mark Twain, another Louis Armstrong). These weights are the weight of gold in the coins; because the coins were not "pure" gold, the total weight of the coins is slightly higher. Although not common, these are not in high demand by "coin collectors"and usually are valued at only a very slight premium over the gold that they contain.

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On the website "abebooks" (which is a site for the buying and selling of just about every kind and age of book, including rare ones) there is one such book in "fine" condition being offered for $4,500. Go there and search Samuel Clemens and Tom Sawyer and you'll see it. You will also see one Mark Twain first edition compendium from around the turn of the century being offered for $45,000!

The poet who was born on February 21, 1927 in Joplin, Missouri was James Mercer Langston Hughes, known as Langston Hughes. He was a prominent figure during the Harlem Renaissance and is best known for his poetry and contributions to African American literature.

The statue in downtown Vail, Colorado is of Albert Einstein, not Mark Twain. It was a gift to Vail from the Vail Rotary Club in 2010 to commemorate the town's dedication to lifelong learning and education.

While working as a typesetter, Mark Twain would often play pranks by inserting humorous and sarcastic comments into the newspaper articles he set. One notable mischief involved adding a fake news story about a petrified man discovered in a cave. Twain's antics were discovered when his brother Orion returned and was not amused by the unauthorized additions.