Mark Twain's Accomplishments

821 Words2 Pages

Writer of the famous “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” Samuel Langhorne Clemens, also known as Mark Twain was born on November 30th, 1835 in a tiny village in Florida, Missouri. Other than being a writer, he was also a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur, and inventor. Twain accomplished many achievements throughout his journey such as learning the art of piloting a steamboat to being one of the most famous writers in America at the age of 34. Unfortunately, Mark Twain died of a heart attack on April 21st, 1910 in Redding, Connecticut, where he was then buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, New York. Samuel Clemens was the sixth child of John and Jane Clemens. John Clemens worked as a storekeeper, …show more content…

Petersburg in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn which all are part of Sam Clemens’s boyhood experience. Young Same witnessed much death, when he was 9 years old, he witnessed a local man murder a cattle rancher, at age 10 he watched a slave die after a white overseer struck him with a piece of iron. Although he went through many sacrifices, he still managed to do great in many things. In 1857, 21 year old Clemens began learning the art of piloting a steamboat on the Mississippi, which later accomplished to receive a licensed pilot by 1859, he soon found employment plying the shoals and channels of the great river. Unfortunately, his service was cut short in 1861 by the outbreak of the Civil War, which halted most civilian traffic on the river. As the war began, many people of Missouri split between supporting the Union and the Confederacy. Clemens chose at the end to join the Confederate Army in June 1861, but only served for a couple of weeks, until his volunteer unit ended. He then started question about his future, which his final answer to all his question was, the great American West. In July 1861, twain climbed on a stagecoach and headed towards Nevada and California, where he would then live for the next five years. At first, he expected for silver and gold, convinced he would be the hero of his struggling family, and be the best man in Virginia City and San Francisco. But nothing went as planned, by the middle of 1862 he was flat broke and in need of a job.

Open Document