I enjoyed the reading because I know more about the characters backgrounds. One thing that stood out to me in the reading was Twains perspective on life. Earlier in the book Twain was an outlier. He wandered to different geographic locations, had several jobs, but never seemed content. He was often worried about his future and making something of himself, but he managed to hold himself together. Finally, Twain started to find his path in life after traveling to San Francisco. He loved San Francisco’s “wide open atmosphere” and room for opportunity. For once Twain felt like he belonged somewhere, which drove him to his passion, literature. “I have had a “call” to literature” he said (Tarnoff 112). However, “money always made Twain crazy” and
