How Did Mark Twain Influence Society

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Mark Twain, who was thought of by many as a celebrity of the American literature world in numerous ways and usually referred to his work as inspirational and moving, was also admired by many for all of his achievements throughout his life, and also for his literary impact on American literature and novels. When he was first thinking about literature and doing more things to get more involved in it was when he was a young man working at the local newspaper industry as an assistant printer. Through that job he would be able to get news globally or nationally and learned more and more about the literary world and how these writers use the information they have and stretch it and maybe rearrange it a bit to make things seem more interesting to read and would catch readers attentions. Then at the age of 18 he started to head toward the eastern side of the U.S. to New York and Philadelphia and there he worked in many different jobs in the newspaper industry and by that time he started to even crate and write out his own …show more content…
He would also then do talks about things that would happen recently that would catch his attention and he would talk about them through his eyes and state his viewpoints on the entire thing and give off his opinions on it. Like for example there was an event that happened around the late 1990s called the Boar War in South Africa and the Boxer Revolution in China and in those two evens Mark Twain talked about how those two events practically fueled his anger and his disgust towards imperialism, imperialistic countries and their actions in this

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