Analysis of the Passage This story is full of examples of implausible things. Mark Twain uses them to relate better to the audience. He writes about a man who goes by the name of Jim Smiley in his "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". Smiley bet on everything, ranging from animals to how far a car will travel. The most absurd and implausible thing takes place when he tells the story about the jumping frog. Twain writes about Smiley's frog. Now this frog wasn't any ordinary frog. No it was, as Twain put it, "a frog so modest and straightforward as he was, for all he was so gifted." What made this frog so gifted and different from the rest wasn't anything really out of the blue. Smiley tried to teach this frog how to jump and catch
