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Born: November 30, 1835 - Florida, Missouri
Died: April 21, 1910 - Redding, Connecticut
| Excerpt from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
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 ow the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece - all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round -- more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back.
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Teaching Topics in Social Studies
Having lived many years in Missouri, Mark Twain was familiar with life on the MISSISSIPPI RIVER and how the river affected everyday life.
Twain also explores the issues of RACE RELATIONS and EMANCIPATION and FREEDOM/OPPRESSION throughout the novel. The novel also has also brought up the issue of CENSORSHIP, even today, due to the controversial language and themes.
Teaching Topics in Language Arts
During his time, Mark Twain was considered one of this country's most beloved authors and HUMORISTS.
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His works became popular largely due to the fact that he used both REALISM and social SATIRE in looking at American life. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the CONFLICT between two CHARACTERS Huck and Jim drives the PLOT. The novel is also noted for its use of "American" LANGUAGE-DIALECT and IDIOMS, and a strong NARRATOR.
| Facts About Mark Twain and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
- By the time he died in 1910, Mark Twain was perhaps the best-known national celebrity
- In 1863 he began signing his articles with the pseudonym Mark Twain, a Mississippi River phrase meaning "two fathoms deep"
- Clemens was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River until the American Civil War (1861-1865) brought an end to travel on the river
- Clemens served briefly as a volunteer soldier in the Confederate cavalry
- He also came to be known for the white linen suit he always wore when making public appearances
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