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.
He even was able to train a frog to win bets with her. He trained this frog to jump more than the others and to hunt flies faster.
Until one day a stranger appears and bets with it, and the bet was for $ 40, which Jim frog named Dan'l Webster the great champion in the famous jumps competitions and
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And Jim loses the bet, but, realizing the deception, began to chase the stranger.
1. What is the title of the text and what is the text about?
"The Famous Calaveras County Jumping Frog". It was a simple account of life in the Old West, and tells the adventure of a stranger who, in a gold digging field, had a good amount of pellets in the frog Jim Smiley, champion in the competitions of Famous jumps.
2. What is the author’s view? How do I know?
From the beginning, each of the characters in this story tries to deceive others. Twain realizes that his friend has deceived him in this unsuccessful search for the young reverend. Twain is cheated by Wheeler, who tells the story of Smiley the lucky player whose fate, it seems, is often based on deception. Finally, Smiley himself is deceived.
3. What is the evidence presented by the author to support ideas?
This little humorous story, which Mark Twain heard in a mining camp, was part of his first lectures, and would later become his first publication in a newspaper.
4. Is the evidence valid? How do I know?
Nowadays the descendants of the pioneers who populated the mines of the West have as their own this humor of the Frog, all vivacity and