The Notorious Jumping Frog Analysis Essay

From reading The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, I would add a piece of technology that would help Jim Smiley win more bets with his frog. I would add a device that would be capable of measuring jumping height, force from takeoff, and the landing force. This way Mr. Smiley could go out and gather frogs and test them until he singled out the best frog for him to use in his bets. Mr. Smiley taught the frog that he caught in the story on how to jump higher, but if someone else were to have a more athletic frog than Mr. Smiley he could’ve easily been beaten because Smiley didn’t measure his frogs height from jumping and didn’t really know for a fact that he was the highest jumping frog in Calaveras County. What my device would consist of would be a laser beam, a pressure measurement plate, and a magnet recipient bar. The device would be connected to a sort of graphing machine that would log the force of the take off and landing, it would also log the height at which the laser beam was shot into the magnet recipient. The laser beam would shoot where the frogs momentum shifted from up to down, the laser beam would then instantly shoot into the magnet…

writers throughout history have utilized. One of the most powerful, yet complicated literary device is irony. Irony occurs when what a reader expects to happen is the complete opposite of the actual outcome. Irony helps illustrate humor especially in the works “Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain and “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor. “Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is a framed narrative that tells the tale of Jim Smiley who is really good at winning…

An Analysis of Setting, Satire, and Symbolism Mark Twain is an acclaimed American writer for his humor and witty social criticism. Twain grew up along the Mississippi River in Hannibal, Missouri; as a result, many of his works are inspired by the river and his travels. The works of Twain are classified into the literary period of Realism. “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is considered Twain’s first successful work. In the tall tale, a man travels to a western mining town where…

(Azizonomics). In the story “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, by Mark Twain, we learn about a gambler named Jim Smiley. Through an analysis of the character Jim Smiley, we learn about his personality, tendencies, and qualities. We see how he is the most important character despite the fact that we never see the story in his point of view. We are not told much about the appearance of Jim Smiley, but we do learn a lot about his personality throughout the story. Jim Smiley is a…

For many people, being able to relate to a story can be integral in whether or not they have actually enjoyed it; though in more extreme cases, it might be the only criteria necessary for one to enjoy it. Frankly, this is why the realism movement in nearly all media has been so successful. One part of the realism movement that is of relatively central importance, however, deals with American Literature in the late 1800’s; the literary landscape changed after the Civil War out of analysis of the…