Mark Twain

Introduction

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was born in Florida, United States on November 30, 1835 and died in Redding, United States on April 21, 1910. It was known as a popular comedian, actor and writer with strong views on political issues of his time. When his father died in 1847, began working as an apprentice in the printing, and manage the trade of compositor, and in 1851 published in the daily notes of his brother. He later worked in the printing of Keokuk, Iowa, New York, Philadelphia and other cities. Later he was pilot of a steamboat, Confederate soldier, and mining in the silver mines of Nevada.

In 1862 he began working as a journalist in the Territorial Enterprise of Virginia City (Nevada) and the following year, began signing with the pseudonym Mark Twain, the Mississippi means two fathoms deep (the minimum depth required for good navigation .) From 1864 began to attend to other writers. In 1867 he traveled to Europe and the Holy Land. In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon.

Dicsuccion and Analysis

"Huckleberry Finn" has inspired countless writers to interpretation. Runaway slave Jim becomes Huck's like a father. The novel, finds vivid expression of the ideal of a harmonious community" the most important thing when swim on the raft - is that all were satisfied, no quarrel, and not angry at each other. “Like a ship "Pequod in Melville, the raft sinks, and with it, and this special community. Clean, simple world of the raft at last overcomes the progress made in the form of a steamer, but it remains a mythical image of the river, a vast and varied as life itself (Albert, 2).

The characteristic theme of Mark Twain and the basis for much of his humor is an unstable relationship between reality and illusion. Gorgeous and at the same time treacherous, ever-changing river also takes important place in his imaginative landscape. Recalling his apprenticeship as a young pilot steamer, Twain wrote in "Life on the Mississippi:" He got to work and began to study the shape of the river, but from all the fugitive, the elusive phenomena that He have ever tried to catch and fix in the memory, the river was the most elusive. In Twain's moral sense of the writer is akin to his responsibility as a pilot for something to bring the ship to a safe place. The words "Mark Twain" Samuel Clemens who made his name, sailors Mississippi is usually denoted the depth of water in two sulfate (3.6 meters) needed for the safe passage of ships. Twain's serious purpose, combined with his rare gift of humor and style guarantee freshness and appeal of his works (Lauber, 33).

Art of the young Mark Twain - is the art of the grotesque. But the grotesque is very different in form, and in essence. On the imaginary author severity based full color comic stories of a young Mark Twain. In those days it was believed that literature must necessarily be sublime, profound, and underlines its profundity, refined the language, built ...