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Mark Twain
“The most conspicuous person on the planet”“The Lincoln of our literature”
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• Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri
• Raised in Hannibal, Missouri (~2 hr. North of St. Louis)– Frequently he referred to Hannibal in his
writing as “St. Petersburg” (meaning Heaven)– Enchanted for river boats, cave, Mississippi,
forests, haunted house, and mansions
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Twain showed an obsessive concern with timing as the key to
success.
• Timing became his conception of destiny
• He was born prematurely under Halley’s comet and later he would claim that “nature’s freaks” would “go out together”
• He died when Halley’s comet reappeared in 1910
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Jobs
• Print shop--”poor boys college”
• Steam boat pilot---one of the most revered jobs ever
• Militia man---only 2 weeks---he learned nothing about fighting but a lot about retreating
• Newspaper reporting---mining camps
• Novelist, humorist, satirist, cynic
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4 Major Contributions to American Literature
• National Character/Youth
• Local color
• Humor
• Expansion of American literature
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National Character/youth• Created characters people could identify
with
• Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, western miners
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Ernest Hemingway would write, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn'."
• Spirit of youth part of national consciousness
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Local Color
• Regionalism
• Vernacular style– Colloquial speech of various regions – Rhythms and expressiveness of a natural
poetry
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Humor
• Accomplished through a variety of techniques– Incongruity, satire, story telling, dialect,
inversion, exaggeration, irony, …
• Raised American humor to an art by showing American their own humanity– Humor begins with imperfections– “The is no humor in heaven,” he wrote.
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Expansion of Literature
• Western gold mining camps in Nevada and San Fran.
• Connecticut
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On his death
• Twain did not want his last writings published until 100 years after his death, when the world, he thought, would be ready for them– Pessimism with democratic progress
• 100 years after is death (2010) his autobiography was published
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“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
• Framed story– Through voice and character
• Vernacular– Common speech of uneducated Western miner
• Incongruity• Exaggeration• Oral humor• Complete reading guide and pg 397
study and discuss ?s (2, 3, 4, 5)
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“Baker’s Bluejay Yarn”
• No frame---just a paragraph of intro
• Man understands the conversations of animals
• Satire---by attributing human characteristics to bluejays
• Complete reading guide and study and discussion p. 401 ?s 3, 5, 6
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Excerpt from The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn• Video • Vernacular• National youth• Slavery & freedom• Safety of the river• River as a journey
through life/boyhood• Complete reading
guide
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How does each passage represent a different theme in
Huck Finn?• Mississippi (textbook)
excerpt• “Was Solomon Wise”
excerpt
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Excerpt from Life on the Mississippi
• Mississippi where Twain took his pen name
• “by the mark, twain,” which meant that the water was a safe depth of two fathoms
• Complete reading guide and study and discuss ?s pg 4121, 5