Mark Twain Research Paper

Mark Twain Research Paper

Mark Twain is one of the most famous American authors of all time. His most known novels are Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was also known for distinct humor. Mark Twain is not his real name actually Samuel Langhorne Clemens is. Being born premature and constantly getting sick caused Twain to become a mischievous child. Twain had a troubled childhood which impacted his writing in many ways.

Twain was born in a small town in Missouri called Florida on November 30, 1835 (Quirk) . Twain was one of seven children his mother Jane Lampton Clemens had. Being born premature Mark had several health issues in is first ten years of life. He also suffered a great deal of lost in his childhood as his sister died of a fever when he was four years old. And his brother Benjamin died three years later. He also lost

his father in 1847 due to pneumonia. He was shown very little affection from his father who was always a more serious person. He had a very adventurous childhood though, also; but it was also like any other child’s, he played pirates, and robin hood with the local boys. In later paragraph it will explain how he turned these childhood games and friends into his stories.
Twain often based people in his stories off of people he knew in real life. Tom Blankenship was the person from Twain’s childhood that he based Huckleberry Finn. The slave Uncle Daniel was used for Uncle Jim in the book The Adventures Huckleberry Finn(Quirk). He would used his adventures to a mine about two miles south of Hannibal to the McDougal's cave and to Glasscock’s Ilsand as the places he went in his novels. Writing over 30 pieces of work a multied of other people were reflected in his work. Next to be explained will be the amount of respect other authors had for his work.
After Twain’s death in April of 1910 , Twain’s pieces of work became more and more popular. “Shortly after Clemens’s death, Howells published My Mark Twain (1910), in which he pronounced Samuel Clemens “sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature.”(Quirk).” It has been said that all Modern American Literature stems from his novel Huckleberry Finn. Twain was known as a moralist and a humorist because of the style of writing he did. It has been claimed that Twain invented the America point of view in fiction(Quirk).
Mark Twain will always be one of the most famous authors of America.

Between his writing styles and the things he wrote about he helped create a new type of literature in America. By using people in his childhood as bases of his characters he could get into a novel or short story deeper and it would have a deeper meaning behind the works. His troubled childhood helped form his writings in many ways.

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