Mark Twain's Accomplishments

“Maaaaark twain!” was called out by a word-passer to indicate a water’s depth was twelve feet (Kirk 606). This meant for safe waters for a steamboat to go through. Samuel Langhorne Clemens worked as a steamboat pilot and later used ‘Mark Twain’ as a pen name with which he was better known as. Taken in consideration of how he grew up, he had been granted the great opportunity to change lives all over the world and American literature.

The Clemens family moved into a promising town for trade, Florida, Missouri. On November 30, 1835, Samuel L. Clemens was born prematurely, and wasn’t expected to live past his childhood (Kirk 241). However, “Little Sam’s” health improved as he grew up with his other relatives, also hearing tales in “dialect and

In fact, before he died in 1910, he had already become known as an “American literary great” (Huso). Such an achievement couldn’t have been accomplished without having written a few incredible stories that influenced the world. Some works he had were The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (“Biography of Mark Twain”). Twain addressed and incorporated many of the problems during his time period through his written works. For example, he illustrated the common prejudices against African-Americans in Huckleberry Finn, even though some had said he was being racist because of his use for the “n-word,” (Kirk 175). Another aspect of him by which people knew him for was his sense of humor. The humor combined with his great stories turned into an opportunity of making quick and easy money by having this sense of humor in his lectures (Kirk 838). Mark Twain naturally wrote without vernacular language. This style of writing that Twain wrote in expressed more, and gave another way of writing into American literature. As stated earlier, it was one of his best qualities in his compositions to have that type of language in it. Twain had a clear vision of life, as many would say, and with that vision, he was able to shed light on what life was really like. His dark humor showed seriousness, but it delved deeply into human