Have you read the short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County? Have you ever read the short story A Dog’s Tale? Theses are two outrageous stories written by Mark Twain. They are identical and different in many ways. Both make can make you have many different emotions running through your mind at once; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County can send you off the charts laughing and it is hilarious and witty while A Dog’s Tale will have you sympathizing for the poor dog who got blamed when he was only trying to help and still have you feeling excited and wretched at the same time. Both are original and unique but also very relatable in their very own ways. In The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Rev. Leonidas
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The poor Presbyterian, Alexis Jones left her mother and was sold to a loving family that treated her with care. She lived a wonderful life with her owner and after had a baby of her own; her little puppy. She had an incident happen that caused the baby crib to catch on fire and she took the heroic step and saved the baby. She was hurt because of it, but the family then realized that she was a bright dog that risked her life to save a child (Zavala, 2014). The theme of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is more about cunning and cleverness Though Jim Smiley appears to be extraordinarily lucky, it is partly through his cunning and cleverness that he is able to win bets. He is finally outsmarted by a stranger, who beats him through cheating. Nonetheless, the story poses a moral distinction between honest and dishonest cleverness. It also shows that you don’t necessarily have to be educated and well spoken to be clever, nor is a good education a defense against getting fooled (Shmoop, 2008). There are many themes for both of these short stories but these are the ones that stick out the …show more content…
She describes the house to be a charming and great new home, "and no gloom anywhere" (Twain, 4). She appears to be in a very great location, giving the setting a calm and happy tone. I believe that the setting of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is in Angel’s Camp, California, 19th century. Angel’s Camp is a gold mining community in the mid-19th century that the narrator claims to have visited to find Simon Wheeler. Like any mining town in the West, it was populated primarily by men, many of them looking for their fortune. As something of a frontier town, it would probably seem to be full of loud, uncouth, and uneducated people compared to the more genteel East (Shmoop, 2008). This is another contrasting observation about both short
The poor Presbyterian, Alexis Jones left her mother and was sold to a loving family that treated her with care. She lived a wonderful life with her owner and after had a baby of her own; her little puppy. She had an incident happen that caused the baby crib to catch on fire and she took the heroic step and saved the baby. She was hurt because of it, but the family then realized that she was a bright dog that risked her life to save a child (Zavala, 2014). The theme of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is more about cunning and cleverness Though Jim Smiley appears to be extraordinarily lucky, it is partly through his cunning and cleverness that he is able to win bets. He is finally outsmarted by a stranger, who beats him through cheating. Nonetheless, the story poses a moral distinction between honest and dishonest cleverness. It also shows that you don’t necessarily have to be educated and well spoken to be clever, nor is a good education a defense against getting fooled (Shmoop, 2008). There are many themes for both of these short stories but these are the ones that stick out the …show more content…
She describes the house to be a charming and great new home, "and no gloom anywhere" (Twain, 4). She appears to be in a very great location, giving the setting a calm and happy tone. I believe that the setting of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is in Angel’s Camp, California, 19th century. Angel’s Camp is a gold mining community in the mid-19th century that the narrator claims to have visited to find Simon Wheeler. Like any mining town in the West, it was populated primarily by men, many of them looking for their fortune. As something of a frontier town, it would probably seem to be full of loud, uncouth, and uneducated people compared to the more genteel East (Shmoop, 2008). This is another contrasting observation about both short