Anna Edgren Sophomore English Period 3 Mrs Burdette 28 April, 2017 Quote Journal #1 Revision Project Throughout the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the readers are able to see the protagonist Huck change his views on society and being able to distinguish right and wrong. The end of chapter fifteen reveals a great deal about Huck and Jim’s relationship. In the chapter, Huck and Jim are on the river on a raft trying to get to Cairo. During this journey, Huck and Jim get separated by the fog when Huck goes ahead to pull the raft.
The narrator in The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County does very little storytelling. He introduces us to Simon Wheeler by a barroom stove in an old tavern; then we spend the next three full pages listening to him (Twain 662-665). The narrator interrupts Wheeler and he ends our story (Twain 666). In The Outcasts of Poker Flat the narrator is outside the story and we do not know who it is. The narrator follows John Oakhurst from the beginning when he becomes an outcast (Harte 674) to the end when he dies (Harte 684).
In the beginning of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain proscribes his audience from finding a motive, moral, or plot. In using rhetorical strategies such as satire, irony, and humor he challenges the reader to look for deeper meanings not only in the Notice, but throughout the whole novel. His purpose was to shed light on the false ideals that society represents as seen through the eyes of young boy. The ironic events that prohibit Huck from being a dynamic character suggest the inadequacy of blind faith in society. Twain uses satire to show the conflict between slavery and Christianity.
This shows how people view Jim and the severity of his escaping. The views of slavery are so set in stone that the black boy escaping is more heinous a crime than that of a white man killing his son. Twain uses figurative language throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. One example would be when he is describing a summer storm in chapter 9. Twain talks about the trees looking “dim and spider-webby,” and how when the wind blows through, it “set the branches to tossing their arms as if they was just wild.”
In Mark Twain’s The Celebrated Jumping Frog Calaveras County; Which was written about a man named Simon Wheeler who asked to be told about the myth of a man named Leonidas W. Smiley by a friend of his. In confusion the friend instead told Wheeler about Jim Smiley. Smiley was a man who had a big gambling problem , willing to bet on almost anything. As you read the famous folktale you will see that Mark Twain uses imagery to create many visuals throughout the folk tale , so that you may paints a visual image as you read. “I noticed that the he was fat and bald- headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity up his tranquil.”
The folktale, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, written by Mark Twain, is about a self-centered man named Smiley who was finally tricked out of his money after winning multiple bets. Twain presented tone in a cocky and arrogant manner, helping us better understand the personality and logic of Smiley. The arrogance displayed in the tone implied that Smiley was stubborn and had an excessive amount of confidence in his actions and intuition. He spoke as if there was no need for anyones opinion and as if he could care less about the input of others. The way he incorporates the word “Anyways” into his speech provides the reader with an understanding that he disregards everything that individuals say.
Probably the biggest use of figurative language in the passage is personification. From lines six through fifteen, Twain is personifying nature to help the reader not only understand the natural world that Huckleberry Finn is surrounded by, but also to help the reader understand the mood of the passage, as well as how Finn is feeling. For example, when describing several animals, he makes them out to be crying mourners; “…an owl, away of, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die…” (7-9).
Twain: In “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country” the tone of the narrator’s relationship began on the very first page. The narrator says that he has a “lurking suspicion” that Leonidas W. Smiley is made up and that Wheeler would “bore me to death with some exasperating reminiscence of him as long and as tedious as it should be useless to me” (Twain 1285). The narrator says that Simon Wheeler’s story telling is a “monotonous narrative” with no expressions (Twain 1285). Wheeler tells a Story about a man named Jim Smiley and uses figurative language to portray imagery throughout.
American authors have been using details in their stories for many years. In both Mark Twain and Sarah Orne Jewett story they both used very vidid details in their writing this was a wildly popular way to connect with the audience in this time period and still is used in most stories today. At the time these stories were written many authors were writhing in a European style so this attract many people to read their stories since it was different from what they have been reading. Using details are a very important part in writing this allows authors to express their feelings, and give us a better picture of their environment and landscape.
Unfortunately, there is almost always crime at night. Regularly in “The Outsiders”, there are problems caused that the law must be included in. The article, “Are Public Curfews Fair?” assists the thoughts behind the novel. Although it is disagreed by many, a curfew may solve a majority of the issues in daily life.
In this story Mark twain writes about a man, the narrator, that tells a story to his friend Ward about a man that used to gamble and gets fooled by a passing stranger through his town. Mark Twain tells this story in a southern way, showing the roots of his childhood as a southern country boy. The tale narrates a visit to Angel’s camp where he hears the story of Jim Smiley's frog. The narrator is searching for one Leonidas W. Smiley. He stops in an old tavern and meets "good-natured, garrulous" old Simon Wheeler.
The use of language in writing is a form of self-expression and is a way to reveal key things about narrators’ characters. The narrators in “The Notorious Jumping Frog” and “Baker's Bluejay Yarn” by Mark Twain, have a very specific style of language which reveals things about their characters. In “The Notorious Jumping Frog” the narrator’s name is Simon Wheeler, The story takes place in Calaveras County, a mining town in California. Wheeler is originally asked about a man by the name Leonidas W. Smiley, but Wheeler started talking a completely different man by the name of Jim Smiley, a man with a gambling problem, who once lived in town. In “Baker's Bluejay Yarn” the narrator's name is Jim Baker.
In the story “The Notorious Jumping Frog from Calaveras County,” Mark Twain is satirizing the stereotypes of the American East and West at that time. The stereotypes of the East and West were that the people living in the East were well educated and sophisticated and people living in the West were uneducated and gullible. In the story the narrator, who is from the East, ended up looking gullible by listening to his friend even though he had suspicion he was being set up. I believe through this story he is hoping to change stereotyping of the East and West. In the story “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” Mark Twain is satirizing temptation.
Mark Twain uses dialogue to add credibility to this story as it is done with the purpose of painting a picture of the setting and revealing more information and authenticity about the characters from the story. For instance, when Twain’s character had just arrived in the town he “found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar-room stove of the old, dilapidated tavern in the ancient mining camp of Angel's.” This sentence is vital to the story as it set a scenery and at the same time the type of characters the readers can expect. By using imagery in his dialogue, Twain basically gave the readers a realistic and believable setting for the story. He was giving facts such as the West was a more lonely and old place but had visitors due to its
The famous jumping frog in the district of Calaveras It is a story that tells about a man who loved to bet on anything in the world. The narrator trying to find a certain Leonidas W. Smiley meets Simon Wheeler, an old charlatan who tells the story of Jim Smiley, the great gambler. This was a compulsive gambler who bet on the most incongruous things, for the death of a person, as for his dog Andrew Jackson and even for roosters and horse races.
