Mark Twain Research Paper

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Mark Twain was a very articulate author who often turned his experiences into things from his imagination. He had an extensive vocabulary and was elaborate in the way he wrote. He would often look to others for help in his pursuit of becoming an author.

Mark Twain was a humorous author indicated by an interaction with some administrators that wouldn't publish his book with the concern that it “would seriously injure the house's reputation." For the purpose of the book containing “a humorous character.” (In addition Bliss, the Publisher helping Twain, said: “the house had never published a book that had a suspicion like that attaching to it.”) That just goes to show he had a good sense of humor and loved to implement it in his writing to make it more engaging.

Mark Twain would often relate his experiences to something from his imagination as shown in his autobiography "Then the fountains of his great deep were broken up, and for two or three minutes I couldn't see him for the rain. It was words, only words, but they fell so densely that they darkened the atmosphere." In this example, he is relating to how he was rudely turned down by a publisher when trying to produce a collection of …show more content…

Often tying the deep meaning of thing into his works, opposed to most authors today. As said by Twain in his autobiography, "I was loath to do it myself." In this case most writers would say something more abrupt and flat out like “I didn’t want to do it.” an additional example of when Twain used more advanced dialect was this from his autobiography "Webb undertook to collate the sketches" this is an example where some might say, Webb undertook to organize the sketches but Twain would add that extra depth of understanding. Because of the way that Twain put his wording and the way he chose to write he would get an extra depth of sense for what was happening making his words feel contagiously alive and