In Mark Twain’s, “Life on the Mississippi,” Mark talks about how much he would like to be a captain for a cruise ship because of the benefits from doing it and how rewarding it is to actually become a captain. But in Fredrick Douglass’s, “Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave,” he talks about how he seldom got payed and the food was boiled corn meal which barely was enough for all the works since they had to share. There are many differences and similarities in these paragraphs. “Life on the Mississippi,” is mainly about the more wealthy people and how they lived. All of the kids wanted to become a captain, Mark Twain said, “The pilot, even in those days of trivial wages, had a princely salary — from a hundred and fifty
