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A chance meeting by Rachel Cohen A chance meeting by Rachel Cohen, is a 36 chapter book, about meetings between prominent figures in American literature. However, the author alters the characteristics of each famously known figure to the author's perspective, giving the readers a lateral view into the lives of each character, further creating a vibrant tone in the book. However, the only importance of each meeting is the association between the individual characters. The opening chapter begins with the interaction between Henry James and Matthew Brad, events complacently following the meeting, gives us the readers a view into the author's choice for repetition. The title of the book implies …show more content…

However, in researching the author Rachel Cohen, you find out she took ten years to write the book, to give accurate representation to the well know figures described in her books, but as with every representation, there is the probability for misinterpretation. The author's power to create incredible, impactful relationships such as the one between Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant shows the author's willingness to explore different norms. A conclusion safe to make from Twain's various works such as Huckleberry Finn is that he is a humorist. “The report of my death was an exaggeration,” this quote by mark twain showed the humorist he was, apparently demeaning his significance just like any other humorist; so for the author to pair him up with the United States president would seem to be unconventional. Throughout the meeting between Twain and grant several similarities become evident such as they both appear to have had financial problems due to the period, Twain is depicted as mischievous and sometimes greedy. These character traits are not much different than those from Twain's works in Huckleberry Finn the overall coming of age theme be setting his main character shows the author's

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