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Response Essay 'Ode To Stephen Dowling Dec D'

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Literary Imagination class allowed me to explore the meaning of books. I’m appreciative of the class because it opened my eyes to reading books. My original opinion about books are that they are pointless to read and a waste of my time. I could not have been more wrong. Before taking the class I would not want to read more than a paragraph of any kind of story. During the class, I started reading the assigned stories and poems. I found that quite a few of them are interesting and I realized reading books are like watching television without having actors acting out parts, it’s left for our imagination. I can now read and imagine what is going on unlike before. I’m unsure why I thought reading books was worthless when I would watch television which is worse than reading a book in the first place. One poem during the class stood out to me a little more than others. It was called an “Ode to …show more content…

First, I wanted to talk about the author. Mark Twain is a pen name for Samuel Langhorn Clemens. He was born in 1835 in Florida and attended a private school in Hannibal. Samuel found the love for writing when he left school at the age of thirteen. He left school to become a printer’s apprentice. He joined his brother’s newspaper as a printer and editorial assistant here he learned that he enjoyed writing. Samuel ended up leaving Hannibal at the age of seventeen to pursue a printer’s job in St. Louis. While in Louis he became a river pilot. His pen name Mark Twain came from the days he was a river pilot which means safe to navigate. When the river trades slowed by the civil war he began working a newspaper report around the United States. Mark’s fame started when his story, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras Country” appeared in the New York Saturday press in 1865. His first book was “The innocents abroad” which was published in 1869. Twain passed away in 1910 and he still has following

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