Mark Twain's Assessment Of James Fennimore Cooper

Provide supporting evidence from the texts to support your responses to these questions. All answers should be in the form of complete sentences.

I agree with how Twain resolved his conflict with Brown for two reasons. I agree because if Twain was to speak up and tell him to quit being a bully, Brown wouldn't have listened and would just keep on doing what he is doing. In the story, it states ”Brown gave no intimation that he had heard anything. But that was his way he never condescended to take notice of an under clerk.” This quote helps me prove that Twain solved the conflict in the right way because Brown sought himself as too good to hear or treat anybody lower than him in a good way. Brown was all over himself and Twain taught him a lesson.

When Twain said, “the earl is cruel and the anaconda isn’t; and that the earl wantonly destroys what he has no use for, but the anaconda doesn’t.”, he is criticizing

Mark Twain uses hyperbole by saying that he is giving his advice “beseechingly and urgingly.” He is also being ironic in the beginning by saying that he is supposed to say something suitable for young

He was one of the first to descriptively verbalize southern speech in writing. Not only was it uncommon for people of Twain’s era to write in vernacular, it was new-fangled for him to write about the subject of vernacular itself. It is a difficult task to write about, much less in, a dialect to which one is foreign without appearing foolish. Twain’s ability to both with ease marked him as an authority on the subject.

Even though the book shows immaturity I think the audience it's intended for is old enough to not be influenced by bad behavior in a book. This leads me into my next point The strength of writing of Mark Twain. Mark Twain’s writing is very unique because of the way he studies the background of the people the books are about. One of the best features of the book is the way Mark Twain uses dialect. "No! W'y, what has you lived on? But you got a gun. Oh, yes, you got a gun. Dat's good. Now you kill sumfn en I'll make up de fire." (Twain). As you can see in the quotes Mark Twain has a magical way of writing and giving an accurate picture of how it was in the mid 1800s.

Mark Twain, one of the most famous and influential American writers, was born in Hannibal, Missouri on November 30, 1835 and died April 21, 1910. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he eventually adopted his famous pseudonym in 1863. Shortly after his father's death in 1847, when Clemens was twelve, his father passed away. After his father death, he applied for an apprenticeship at the local-printing shop. While working in the printing shop, Twain learned the skills required to be a printer and developed an aptitude for witty short essays and responses. Mark Twain was enthralled by his opportunity to develop his skills as a printer, and later he realized that he had a unique talent for writing. By working as an apprentice printer, he

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is a complicated novel that fundamentally deals with the concept of the human experience. Hank Morgan is a nineteenth century mechanic who is transported back thirteen centuries to medieval Britain, during the time of King Arthur. After his initial shock, he becomes determined to “civilize” Camelot by introducing modern industrial technology. At an initial look Twain seems to be favoring the industrialized capitalist society that he lives in over the feudal society of medieval Britain. But in a closer examination of the work it becomes clear that this observation is much too simple, as the industrial world that Hank Morgan

Making a mockery of another person can set their lives into a downward spiral. Demeaning somebody can impact their life decisions for the rest of their lives. Both, Hester Prynne and the “other” Wes Moore, were victims of public ridicule and unreasonable expectations, pushing them towards the wrong path. Hawthorne and Moore capture these similarities of characters by using similar literary devices in their writing. Both authors, Moore and Hawthorne, demonstrate how public ridicule and expectations can push you toward the wrong path using the literary devices of tone and diction.

Mark Twain seems to be more forgiving towards characters who have used necessary deception than the ones who have acted, in some way, hypocritical. Though hypocrisy and deception are both looked at as pessimistic actions in our society, Twain points out that sometimes lying or bending the truth is necessary in some cases. In a perfect world there would be no need for anyone to bend the truth, but this isn't a perfect world and Twain knows it. There is greed, selfishness, and no telling who can be trusted. Since there are such people in the world, Twain seems to find that deception, or the process of misleading others, is necessary at times for people have the potential of doing selfish and greed driven things, like Huck's father.

Examples throughout Twain and Wallace’s works establish that the way in which a writer articulates their opinion correlates with the way in which the opinions is received and accounted for. Twain and Wallace both connect the reader visually to the characters in their works, however, Twain leaves room for the reader to form an opinion of the character for themselves. He allows them to decide if they appreciate the gentle energy of the older traveler or the warmth and attentive nature of the wait staff. On the other hand, Wallace’s demanding language leaves no room for interpretation for the reader. His extreme and dramatic phrases ultimately cause the reader to question the value of his opinion, which simply proves that moderate language used in Mark Twain book is more successful than the bold language that David Foster Wallace chooses to

Mark Twain is important to American literature because of his novels and how they portray the American experience. Some of his best selling novels were Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In these books, Mark Twain recalls his own adventures of steamboating on the Mississippi River.

Evidently Twain's message is to make a point which is to express the unfairness and un human way the people of color were treated. Through this satirical example he is making a point that it was wrong how the people of color were treated and how it was terribly wrong how they were

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure" (Twain). This quote is from Mark Twain. He is a very famous author who has written such classics as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain’s real name is Samuel Clemens, and was known to have experienced different many things in his lifetime. He has worked as a miner, printer, river pilot, and more (www.cmgww.com). This tells us that he must have known many things, and possibly how he came up with this quote.

James Fenimore Cooper was a widely renowned American author in the 1800s. However, due to his fame and praise, he was criticised and despised by other authors, particularly Mark Twain. In Mark Twain’s satirical critique, “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences”, Twain mocks Cooper’s novels by saying they are guilty of several literary offenses. Twain ridicules Cooper and says that his works of literature are considered art. In “Chapter 1” of Cooper’s novel, The Deerslayer, Cooper violates three rules of literature: developing characters, having a reason for characters, and having only necessary parts of the tale.