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How Is Twain Used In The Lowest Animal

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Mark Twain is a famous American author of the 19th century, best known for his works The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In his writing, Twain masterfully uses literary devices to convey his ideas to his readers, and he does this especially well in his work “The Lowest Animal”. In The Lowest Animal, Twain writes satirically about the state of Humankind as a species in comparison to the rest of the animal kingdom. Twain argues that humanity is not inherently better than the other animals, and that we are actually, in many ways, worse. Twain makes the argument that humanity is lower than the rest of the animal kingdom through various direct and indirect ways. His most common means of doing this is by drawing
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