Is it one event in a person’s life that can change the course of it forever? Decisions can be both toxic or rewarding. Mark Twain was considered quite an unlucky man because he faced excruciatingly painful losses throughout his life. The first devastation of his life was the loss of his father as a young boy (Poole, Primmer, Johnson). Although his life was never luxurious, it even managed to get harder as it went along (“Mark Twain Biography- Encyclopedia”). He faced loss all the way up to his death, which is what shaped him into the man he became. Mark Twain’s Advice to Little Girls exemplifies the ways his life obstacles motivate his humor and sarcasm. The twists and turns of his life left a lasting impression on the astounding author known today as Mark Twain. He was born two months prematurely as Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Mississippi. Being born so early and not being fully developed, Twain suffered health problems for the first ten years of his life. His mother treated him like an angel, though. Fragile, yet special, was the way she saw him. To most parents, their children are the most important things in their lives. So, in his mother’s nature, she used many remedies hoping to heal her son. As boys do, Mark Twain let all the attention go to his head. He became a jokester because he knew that since he was sick he could take advantage of his loving mother (“Mark Twain-History”). His mother had stereotypical personality of all mothers,
