What Is The Difference In The Celebrated Jumping Frog

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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County has many similarities between the play and the story, but there is also quite a few differences. I would like to start off by naming the similarities and differences in the plot. One major difference that I noticed right away was that there was no story within a story during the play. In the story Mark Twain approaches Simon Wheeler about Leonidas W. Smiley, but instead he is told a story about Jim Smiley. During the play, I noticed that they didn’t even mention Simon Wheeler or Mark Twain. The play didn’t even include the main, outer frame of the story. Although the outer frame might have been thought of as unnecessary to them,I personally liked

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