Mark Twain's Life in His Writings
In Mark Twain's two major works, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and it's sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he develops and displays his humoristic abilities by concealing within them deeper meanings, ultimately producing a satire of the region in which he lived.
Examined within this paper are the methods which Twain uses to conceal his satire within the above two novels. The majority of his points are made using humor, but he also takes …
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…as a Literary Comedian (LSU 1979) 132.
Lynn, 202.
Lynn, 199.
Lynn, 221.
Sloane, 131.
Lynn, 214.
Sloane, 134.
Lynn, 241.
Mark Twain in Eruptions, 202-203
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