  Born in 1835 as Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Missouri  After his father’s death he fulfilled his dream of becoming river boat pilot on the Mississippi River  He then moved to San Francisco. He lived and worked there, creating his first big story 1867… “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”  He married in 1870 and moved to Connecticut Background

  After “The Celebrated Jumping Frog…”  Life on the Mississippi in 1883  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (sequel) in 1884 Literary Fame

  After Huckleberry Finn Twain was cemented as one of the greatest novelists the United States had every seen  The realism and detail in his writing influenced writers such as Ernest Hemingway who stated that, “ all modern American Literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Legacy

  Twain uses different kinds of humor throughout the story to amuse the reader such as Wheeler’s accent, comic characters, exaggerations, and absurd situations.  Create a web diagram and record each type of humor that you see.  After you create your web, pick one element that you think was the most effective in this story, and in a small paragraph tell me why Assignment

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