To understand Mark Twain use of literary you must first understand how Mark Twain was able to write “The Celebrated Frog. It is in Gina article entitled “ The Jumping Frog story—both old and new” she helps makes the point that Mark Twain was not the first to learn of and hear of the origin Jumping Frog Story that in fact first appeared in a 1867 selection of short stories written by the Greek author Sidgwrick. I believe that even though Mark Twain was not the first author of the jumping frog story, Twain was able to help reshape this short shorty using his own words to help create a whole new story that only Twain could create. Twain was well known at being able to use his literary skills to help craft his stories into the dialect to the part