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The Celebrated Jumping Frog Analysis

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When I finished reading “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” I felt that this story was very well written and funny which made me enjoy it, however, this short story was very difficult to understand at some points; and I felt that way because english is my second, or even third language, and this story has words that are not used anymore so I had to stop and search the meaning or these words so I could have a better understand of what was happening in the story. In this story, Smiley is struggling with a stranger because he says that his frog jumps higher than any other frog in Calaveras County, but the stranger does not agree with Smiley and says that the frog is just like any other frog and that he does not look special or anything. The conflict between them is not resolved because the stranger puts a liquid in the frog’s mouth while …show more content…

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