According to both authors, Stephen Gould and Mark Twain, they have different points of view of the nature of man. In Stephen Gould’s piece of literature entitled, “A Time of Gifts”,he asserts the nature of man can be positive when horrible things happen in life. However, in Mark Twain’s,”The Lowest Animal”, he explains how the nature of man is greedy and lower than the nature of animals. People may be really greedy, but it doesn’t mean they can’t advance in life. The nature of man in our time can be convinced, if we turn to God. In Mark Twain’s, “The Lowest Animal”, the point of view facing the nature of man is very negative and greedy as I stated before. He claims the nature of man is “to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.”
