Soon Twain married a young and beautiful girl from New York, Olivia Langdon (bio.). They together had four children yet, Mark was able to continue his passion for writing and publish one of his famous works, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (bio.). With the fame from Huckleberry Finn, Twain began writing other novels and stories to increase his popularity and thrill his crowd of bookworms. Mark Twain was man filled with creativity and stories that combined fiction and moments in his life that together, gave his novels …show more content…
Although its own story, many critics believed that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a sequel to Mark Twains previous story, Tom Sawyer (mental_floss). “Twain said Huck is based on Tom Blankenship, a childhood playmate whose father, Woodson Blankenship, was a poor drunkard and the likely model for Pap Finn. “In Huckleberry Finn I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was,” he wrote in Autobiography. “He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had."” (mental_floss). Growing up in the south, Mark was able to use many situations he encountered as a child, to recreate in novels such as this one. In his novel, the main character is seen to portray Mark Twain’s friend from his childhood (mental_floss). Even though Mark Twain was a well-established writer filled with boundless ideas and thoughts to create in his stories, it was never uncommon for the astounding writer to use events from his personal life and childhood to give his stories more intimacy and relativeness with his readers and