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1. Paraphrasing: Paragraph 1: Mark Twain speaks about his encounter with a “… gay and impudent and satirical and delightful young black man…/”, who he believes to have a fine passion and energy. Twain also believed that the black African American was the greatest orator in America. Paragraph 2: Twain speaks about how the African American man would occasionally stop his preaching and begin imitating a bucksaw noise.
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.
Mark Twain exposes a flawed society by describing in detail the racism of the time. Many of Twain’s characters open display their racism in what they say and how they say it, exposing the racism in American society in the late 1800s. When Pap is drunk and yelling about an African American that was allowed to vote, he exclaims “Thinks I, what is the country a coming to? It was ‘lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn’t too drunk to get there; but then when they told me there was a state in this country where they’d let that nigger vote, I drawed out.
In this story writing by MarK twain i the 1867 “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County“.in this story it's all about a Guy name Jim Smiley was a man that bet on anything. He turn a frog into a pet ,and bet that his frog Dan'l Webster could jump higher than any other frog. Mark twain uses figurative language to prove that he’s frog was a unic one and was like any other frog on the west. The use of figurative language in the story create an image that show us without looking just writing how the frog could be and how unic it is for example.
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” Literary Analysis In Mark Twain’s folktale “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” the many uses of diction, found throughout the story, helps to give the tale it’s clear mood, tone and character personalities. Mark’s many uses of slang creates a clear characterization for the characters in this folktale, yet mainly for the narrator, Simon Wheeler. In paragraph 7 the narrator says “He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and he said he cal’klated to edercate him…”
To compare Mark Twain’s short story to American culture it’s necessary to understand that the person telling the humorous story has lived it. Mark twain being considered a social critic; one must understand the humor of life. To create a story out of anything and everything. The purpose of the humorous story depends on its effects on the listener, not on the facts. He glorifies humorous stories as an art.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County The short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” was written by America’s most famous literary icon, Mark Twain, in 1865. The main idea of this story is to show the reader how each side of the country portrayed the other side. Mark Twain wanted to show the reader the idea of realism through stereotypes.. The short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” was written to inform the reader of the stereotypes between the West and the East, and that just because you are from the West does not mean you are uneducated, and vice versa. Mark Twain writes the story through the eyes of an educated eastern man.
A bet between two men is the subject of Mark Twain's short story, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Reverend Leonidas W. Smiley is visited by a stranger named Simon Wheeler, who tells him the story of Jim Smiley and his beloved frog Dan'l Webster. Jim Smiley bets with another man that his frog can jump higher than his, but the other man cheats by stuffing the frog with lead shot, so Smiley loses the bet. There are many cause-and-effect scenarios to investigate in the story. One of them was the effects of the stranger's obsession with gambling.
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.
“ The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County “ Mark Twain, an American writer, entrepreneur and publisher, presents a short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County.” Old Simon Wheeler tells the narrator a mirthful story of Jim Smiley and his “trained frog. ”A well known gambler, Jim was cheated one day when a stranger fed his frog buckshot and made him lose a bet. Twain illuminates a tone that is exaggerated and humorous for a light hearted folktale that provides a sense of entertainment.
Mark Twain is a very creative writer especially in the folktale “ The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County “ written in 1867. He explains the story how his feeling was through tone about his one of a kind frog that no other was like. Mark Twain’s work is an expression of american life, giving his attitude of humor making fun of simon and how he uses slang and makes up hi9s own words throughout the folktale. He says “... well thish-yer smiley had rat-tamers and chicken cocks and tom-cats and all of them kinds of thing, till you couldn’t rest, and couldn’t fetch nothing for him to bet on
Mark Twain's Use of Satire in Huckleberry Finn Throughout his pieces of literature, the famous American author Mark Twain portrays his personal views of society using satire and irony in his stories. He makes fun of broken parts in the American society relentlessly and makes sure the readers understand how outrageous some acts were during the early-to-mid 1800s. Twain seems to target specific aspects in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn such as how young people could be conflicted between morality and legality, the loss of self-respect for money, and the effects of herd mentality. He has an interesting approach at giving the reader insight, but his main ideas for the theme shine through and are clearly depicted.
For the Unit 5 discussion forum I chose the short and humorous story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain (1867). I picked this tale because of the author that I had already known during my studies many years ago. The short tale was included in the book having the same title published by George Routledge and Sons, London, in 1867; this book is a collection of humorous tales and it is considered as a masterpiece of Mark Twain’s literary production.
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