“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” (2”Mark”). A quote from the Famous American Writer, Mark Twain. Mark Twain was not only a writer, but he a publisher and entrepreneur. He wrote many books, such as, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and much more.Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who was born November 30, 1835. Samuel was the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens.(1”Mark”) He was sick for the first 10 years of his life. With that instances of his past childhood, led him to make books like Tom Sawyer, and other stories he wrote. Jane Clemens, his mother was often coddled, mainly by his mom (1”Mark”). In Missouri, Mark was at the time where racism was around, so Mark grew up against racism. Missouri was one of the fifteen slave states when the Civil War broke out. (3”Mark”) …show more content…
The body was a California emigrant who had been stabbed in a quarrel. Clemens also watched a man be shot on the street, and he witnessed the drowning of one of his friend (1“Mark”). Mark Twain witnessed many life scaring moments in his life. When Twain's father died in 1847, Samuel left school when he was only in the fifth grade. He started a job working with newspaper and magazines place. He also started writing, mainly because he was inspired. He started being referred to as his pen name, Mark Twain. In 1858 his brother Henry died in a steamboat explosion in Pennsylvania. Mark Twain got a trade at the age of 17. He never went out of mississippi, mainly because of what happened when the Civil War broke out in 1861. (3“Mark”) Mark Twain wrote books like, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), and many more important books. After his sister's death in 1848, he had seven different jobs to support himself. Clemens left Hannibals in 1853 after getting the