Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, has been central to American literature for over a century. He was born on November 30, 1835 in a small town in Missouri. Mark Twain is one of the most famous American literature authors of all time. He has changed the way people look at American Literature and has wrote hundreds of stories about his past childhood experiences and way of life. Twain tried to embody his virtues into the stories he wrote to help readers through tough times of their own. Mark Twain used his virtues of honesty, intelligence, and friendship to share his experiences and wisdom he gained throughout life in his short stories for readers of all ages. Mark Twain was the sixth child born to John Marshall and
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Initially the narrator’s friend asks him to find Smiley and see if he knows Reverend Smiley. Wheeler does not know Smiley, but ends up telling a story about Jim Smiley a man who loved to bet. Because he loved to gamble, he decided to train a frog to jump. Smiley bet a stranger that his frog could jump higher than the strangers. When Smiley was not looking, the stranger put quail sauce in his frog 's mouth so he would not jump high. Evidently the stranger won and ran away the money before Smiley could find out what happened. Once the story is done, the narrator attempts to leave, but Wheeler has another story. The narrator finally realized that his friend probably just wanted him to suffer through the long tales Wheeler …show more content…
Along the way he gets police protection, but someone still manages to steal the elephant. When he goes to the detective 's office they say the chief will help him find the elephant. After multiple detectives go out and look for the elephant, nothin turn up. Soon the detective says they should make a reward for bringing it back. For some odd reason he makes the reward for detectives only and manages to raise the reward to 100 thousand dollars. Once the reward was at 100 thousand dollars the chief exposes himself for hiding the elephant and splits the money with all the other
Initially the narrator’s friend asks him to find Smiley and see if he knows Reverend Smiley. Wheeler does not know Smiley, but ends up telling a story about Jim Smiley a man who loved to bet. Because he loved to gamble, he decided to train a frog to jump. Smiley bet a stranger that his frog could jump higher than the strangers. When Smiley was not looking, the stranger put quail sauce in his frog 's mouth so he would not jump high. Evidently the stranger won and ran away the money before Smiley could find out what happened. Once the story is done, the narrator attempts to leave, but Wheeler has another story. The narrator finally realized that his friend probably just wanted him to suffer through the long tales Wheeler …show more content…
Along the way he gets police protection, but someone still manages to steal the elephant. When he goes to the detective 's office they say the chief will help him find the elephant. After multiple detectives go out and look for the elephant, nothin turn up. Soon the detective says they should make a reward for bringing it back. For some odd reason he makes the reward for detectives only and manages to raise the reward to 100 thousand dollars. Once the reward was at 100 thousand dollars the chief exposes himself for hiding the elephant and splits the money with all the other