how does literature connect to place? Mark Twain wrote stories, novels, and essays that to this day are still vastly known for his creative sense of literary humor such as "Life on the Mississippi" and "The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County ''. Twain after his father's death was forced to become a printer's apprentice, he traveled the country and wrote a few stories but after he took a trip on a boat down the Mississippi it brought back his childhood aspirations and he decided to become a riverboat pilot until the Civil war closed Mississippi boat traffic. Whilst being a journalist Twain found his calling as a humorist he wrote a short story, "The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County '' written in 1865 which achieved his fame and success. Sarah Ome Jewett's most popular story is "A White Heron" written in 1886. She would follow her father on house calls as he was a physician when she was young, then she would write about the wildlife she saw there. When she was nineteen she sold her first story to Atlantic …show more content…
Twain talks about a young steamboat apprentice in an informal or unkind manner "and he was always talking about "St.Looey" like an old citizen", This sentence shows how he feels agitated by the apprentice. The story "The Notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County" uses lots of colloquial language and dialect because they have a southern accent. They use words like "feller", "solit'ry, " 'peared" and " Dan'l" in the story to show the accents they have and it's also colloquial language because it's informal speech. American authors use regional details like this to help the readers better understand the story and reinforce who they are as characters, what their personalities are, and where they're from. Another example of this is in "The White Heron" Jewett uses "Co'!Co'!" to make known Sylvia's accent through the