The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a story written by the author Mark Twain; Or rather, it was written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, whose pen name was Mark Twain. I believe that the purpose of this story is to entertain readers with the amusing tale of the notorious gambler, Jim Smiley. Samuel’s writing style involves very many similes and metaphors. The protagonist of the frame story is the narrator, who listens to Simon Wheeler’s amusing tale about Jim Smiley. The protagonist of the inner story is Jim smiley, who is a notorious gambler. The antagonist of the story is a stranger who bets with Jim. The story takes place in the mid-late 19th century, in Calaveras County, California. To summarize the plot of