Samuel L. Clemsens also known as Mark Twain was born on November 30th of 1865, in Florida, Missouri. “Grew up in somewhat larger Mississippi river town of Hannibal Missouri, that place of idylls and also dangers he called St. Petersburg in his writings’ (Twain 1282).Throughout his seventy-four years of life he faced many obstacles, experiencing success and failure. Twain was a humorists, specifically in one of his controversial but also greatest novels known to date from the year 1864 when he first published it called “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. His criticism on society, his religion, and how strongly he felt about politics were huge factors that played a role in his life, in this story and many other stories he’s written. In the first chapter of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” hypocrisy is brought to Huck’s attention as follows “Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me. But she wouldn’t. She said it was a mean practice and wasn’t clean, and I must try not to do it anymore” (Twain 1290). She was trying to get him to stop consuming tobacco because she felt it was dangerous and would be a
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Twain had religious issues just as he had social ones. Twain sure didn’t believe that Jesus was coming back for a second time around as he responded when asked about the Holy Land “he said he knew for a fact there would be no Second Coming, for if Jesus had been there once he certainly wouldn’t go back” (Twain 1283). Surely he didn’t have any beliefs at all and was very doubtful of religion. Also in the story “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, written by him the character Huck had no faith in prayer as it reads, “Then Miss Watson she took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing come of it. She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for I would get it. But it warn’t so. I tried it.” (Twain 1296). One can simply tell he had little faith or none at all and didn’t believe that he would get anything he desired when it came to
Twain had religious issues just as he had social ones. Twain sure didn’t believe that Jesus was coming back for a second time around as he responded when asked about the Holy Land “he said he knew for a fact there would be no Second Coming, for if Jesus had been there once he certainly wouldn’t go back” (Twain 1283). Surely he didn’t have any beliefs at all and was very doubtful of religion. Also in the story “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, written by him the character Huck had no faith in prayer as it reads, “Then Miss Watson she took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing come of it. She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for I would get it. But it warn’t so. I tried it.” (Twain 1296). One can simply tell he had little faith or none at all and didn’t believe that he would get anything he desired when it came to