Mark Twain the Traveling Man
Sam Clemons, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous writer, with an imagination beyond most of our wildest dreams. What made him so special was his writing style and his interpretation of the human condition. His writings transcend time; they make his readers feel as if they are visiting parts of the world and times of a bygone era.
Many people are oblivious of where his unique point of view originated; it was created from a lifetime of world travel, originating in the southern United States. His experiences around the world, with other cultures and different people sculpted his personality and his writings. His adventures abroad made his stories and characters deep and full of life. So much …show more content…
After taking brief jobs as both a boat captain and a Confederate soldier he accepted an invitation from his brother to travel to Nevada (Steamboat Times). His brother, Orion, held a position as the Secretary of the Nevada Territory at that time (Twain, Mark, Guy Cardwell). Clemons was lured there by the silver rush and dreams of striking it rich (Twain, Mark, Guy Cardwell). Clemons traveled cross-country by stagecoach to the Nevada Territory. On the way, he encountered various Native American tribes (Twain, Mark, Guy Cardwell). A series of short stories derived from this trip would find their way into the book he later wrote named Roughing It (Mark Twain House and Museum). Clemons sees how America has treated the Native American people first …show more content…
His most famous books were written in Hartford. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, in 1876, and his most famous book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in 1884 (Mark Twain House and Museum). Those books both were fictionalized stories from life on the Mississippi, which Clemons knew very well. In those books, the back-story was always about slavery and the lower class in America, and the inability of people at the time to see the wrong in it. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he tells a story of how a boy befriends what was once a neighbor’s slave and starts to see him as a human being, deserving of friendship and loyalty (Twain, Mark, Diane Mowat, and Paul Fisher). Only someone from the South, who’s family were slave owner’s, during the Civil War, could completely understand the situation. Not only did he understand the problems in America, he guided his readers to see the problems by using comedy and allowing the readers to see themselves in his
Sam Clemons, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous writer, with an imagination beyond most of our wildest dreams. What made him so special was his writing style and his interpretation of the human condition. His writings transcend time; they make his readers feel as if they are visiting parts of the world and times of a bygone era.
Many people are oblivious of where his unique point of view originated; it was created from a lifetime of world travel, originating in the southern United States. His experiences around the world, with other cultures and different people sculpted his personality and his writings. His adventures abroad made his stories and characters deep and full of life. So much …show more content…
After taking brief jobs as both a boat captain and a Confederate soldier he accepted an invitation from his brother to travel to Nevada (Steamboat Times). His brother, Orion, held a position as the Secretary of the Nevada Territory at that time (Twain, Mark, Guy Cardwell). Clemons was lured there by the silver rush and dreams of striking it rich (Twain, Mark, Guy Cardwell). Clemons traveled cross-country by stagecoach to the Nevada Territory. On the way, he encountered various Native American tribes (Twain, Mark, Guy Cardwell). A series of short stories derived from this trip would find their way into the book he later wrote named Roughing It (Mark Twain House and Museum). Clemons sees how America has treated the Native American people first …show more content…
His most famous books were written in Hartford. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, in 1876, and his most famous book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in 1884 (Mark Twain House and Museum). Those books both were fictionalized stories from life on the Mississippi, which Clemons knew very well. In those books, the back-story was always about slavery and the lower class in America, and the inability of people at the time to see the wrong in it. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he tells a story of how a boy befriends what was once a neighbor’s slave and starts to see him as a human being, deserving of friendship and loyalty (Twain, Mark, Diane Mowat, and Paul Fisher). Only someone from the South, who’s family were slave owner’s, during the Civil War, could completely understand the situation. Not only did he understand the problems in America, he guided his readers to see the problems by using comedy and allowing the readers to see themselves in his