“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, written by Mark Twain, a humorous genre in which the narrator of the story gets told a short story. The writer uses a certain dialogue throughout the passage. Especially when the character,Simon Wheeler, starts telling the narrator about a “...cherished companion of his boyhood...” from his past. In the first few paragraphs, the writer begins by describing what the narrator is about to do and why. Mark Twain uses his writing to create an authentic southern west effect on the readers.
The narrator of the story is showing the reader that he is complying a friend of his. “In compliance with the request of mine, who wrote me from the East,...”. When the narrator had reached Simon Wheeler ,a character, he had asked if he had known anything about Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley. Simon had replied with,”There was a feller here once by the name of Jim Smiley, in the winter of ‘49 or may be it was the spring of ‘50 i don’t recollect exactly,somehow,though what makes me think it was one or the other is because I remember the big flume wasn’t finished when he first came to the camp: but anyway, he was the curiosest man about always betting on anything...”. The author had manipulated the english language by creating a southern west affect in the passage. …show more content…
“He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he cal’klated to edercate him; and do he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump. And you bet you he did learn him, too.” As Simon was telling his story, the author had encouraged that southern west affect and exaggerating over some parts of the story with the incorrect spelling of the word. By this point readers were trying to come up with a clearer image in their head about the rural area and their similar yet distinct
The narrator of the story is showing the reader that he is complying a friend of his. “In compliance with the request of mine, who wrote me from the East,...”. When the narrator had reached Simon Wheeler ,a character, he had asked if he had known anything about Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley. Simon had replied with,”There was a feller here once by the name of Jim Smiley, in the winter of ‘49 or may be it was the spring of ‘50 i don’t recollect exactly,somehow,though what makes me think it was one or the other is because I remember the big flume wasn’t finished when he first came to the camp: but anyway, he was the curiosest man about always betting on anything...”. The author had manipulated the english language by creating a southern west affect in the passage. …show more content…
“He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he cal’klated to edercate him; and do he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump. And you bet you he did learn him, too.” As Simon was telling his story, the author had encouraged that southern west affect and exaggerating over some parts of the story with the incorrect spelling of the word. By this point readers were trying to come up with a clearer image in their head about the rural area and their similar yet distinct